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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op - completely understood. However in the 4 years we have been in school I don’t remember one single spelling test for my now 4th grader. [/quote]

Many local public schools (not all) mostly stopped teaching spelling, grammar, and handwriting over the past 15-20 years (partly this was caused by the Lucy Calkins “Writers Workshop” crap, where in many cases teachers explicitly were forbidden to correct or teach either grammar or spelling before 4th/5th grade).  So there actually is a good chance that OP is 100% correct and DC simply were not taught in public school.

By contrast, most of the Catholic schools avoid educational fads (such as the now widely discredited Lucy Calkins reading/writing crap) and so they retained explicit instruction on handwriting (including cursive), spelling, and grammar.  They also have kept having daily or weekly quizzes on the same topics.

I think everything ultimately will be fine, but DC likely are in for a small shock that they are behind in some areas and need to catch up.  They likely also will need to develop age-appropriate study skills.  OP likely will need to help kids catch up in any areas where they are behind, either directly at home or by finding an after-school tutor.[/quote]

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