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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately, if you're in the DC area, the only way to have your kids learn grammar, spelling, geography, history, and science is to leave the public school system.  We did, and it's so much better.  My kids learned more in the first month of school this year than they did for the entire year last year.  [/quote]

It’s more of a National problem. Some public schools (scattered throughout the country) actually still teach that stuff. I would guess it’s that most do not... I am a teacher and I agree it is a major problem. But we cannot teach what we want and how we want. It is (stupidly) paced out and scheduled for us.[/quote]

Which schools or districts actually still teach?[/quote]

Our DCPS does ES and MS do. My kids moved to a rigorous private school and were not behind in content, plus had some repeat content. They were behind in study skills and being generally studious though. The difference has not been in the content taught, but in the accountability for learning the content. If you look at your public school curriculum (at least ours), it is all there -- but the kids are not held accountable for learning it well, so many never do, and then the parents assume it wasn't even introduced. It was, you kid just wasn't paying attention and wasn't graded on it anyway.[/quote]

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