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[quote=Anonymous]My 6th grader complains endlessly about the amount of grammar being taught in her English class. So I don't think MCPS eliminated it. It does seem that the curriculum is not appropriate for advanced readers. She's pretty bored, and has expressed some irritation that the rubric for book reports (I can't remember what they call them -- literature studies? something like that) is too simplistic so you can't really write anything very sophisticated. It might be good for her -- to force her to focus on basics to make sure she has the right foundation before she advances. But she's definitely bored. It does appear to be the weak spot in the 6th grade curriculum -- they tell the advanced readers to take a language, which is fine, but it is not really meeting their needs on the literature/writing front. I've found that the advanced math, foreign language and the social studies curriculum are appropriately challenging. [/quote]
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