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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholic schools can have many faults, but my kid had no issues with grammar when they switched to FCPS for high school. They were surprised the other students were struggling in English Honors. My kid is no whiz, fwiw. [/quote] Right, because presumably Catholic school used a more traditional curriculum that actually explicitly taught grammar and reading vs the workshop model public schools have been using now for 15 years. Grammar isn’t actually hard, you don’t have to be a whiz to get it - I tell my students if you like math, you should like grammar, because it’s rule based and simple to follow when you know the rules. But kids who don’t receive explicit instruction in reading and grammar struggle with it when we HAVE to teach it in high school because the 11th grade writing SOL is very, very grammar based. I mean my students cannot tell the difference between a complete sentence and a fragment. [/quote]
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