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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids have been in many different public schools all over the U.S. and none of them has cared about spelling or grammar. It's only the content. Sad but we are raising a bunch of kids who won't understand why their resumes or college essays will be their downfall.[/quote]

Wow! Not my experience at all.

I hate to be critical, but I think you all are getting a bad deal. This is not normal. In Kinder and first, teachers often don't correct spelling or grammar because children haven't been taught those things yet. But third graders? fourth? Fifth? That is a failure of your teacher, school, district. Complain.
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Lol. You think I haven't complained? Get real. I did for years but in the end, my feet did the talking. Now my kids are in Catholic high schools. They both needed writing tutors for the first two years because they were so behind. Their Catholic school classmates had had many years of grammar, spelling and quality writing instruction. Now, the content as well as the mechanics count equally. Sad that I had to pay tutors to get them up to speed but someone had to do it. Public schools should be ashamed of what they are producing. It's no wonder so many of their graduates end up in remedial college courses.[/quote]

That is so interesting to me as a Catholic high school teacher, because at our school the teachers find that the public school kids are pretty far ahead as writers.  [/quote]

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