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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know about Blair CAP but RMIB teaches extensive writing for 4 years. Kids read and write EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. [/quote] It's just not comparable. Here's the difference - RMIB's 12th grade reading list: Pride and Prejudice, Hamlet , A Room of One’s Own, Selected poems (Margaret Atwood), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, Haroun and the Sea of Stories. In the elite privates, the Rushdie and Twain are middle school texts. The Austen is often a 9th grade book. These are all important books to read, but they are pretty foundational. At the privates, senior lit classes are more likely reading The Waste Land, Mrs. Dalloway, Absalom, Absalom!, The Myth of Sisyphus and Lolita that mirror core college English courses. And they offer additional electives that go deep on Ondaatje and Zadie Smith and Baldwin and Murakami in addition to Ovid, Homer,Virgil,and Sophocles classics. [/quote]
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