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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree English is the weak point.

I think there’s one easy fix which is to assign more books and better book.  Basically everything my kids read was written after 1950 and most of t was written after 2000.  They don’t read Shakespeare, dickens, Britney, Steinbeck, Hawthorne, Wharton, Austen etc.

The second one, which is probably impossible to solve, is more feedback on their writing.  They just aren’t staffed for that.  They would need to give all the English teachers at least one or two more additional planning periods to give them time to really read and edit and provide substantive feedback on writing.  Or give them TAs or something.  (Although it’s not even clear to me that the new graduates are capable of that.) [/quote]

Every book my kids have read in MCPS for the last 20 years makes them want think life is nothing but abuse, murder, betrayal, violence. Sick selection of books. Then they wonder why they need suicide intervention counseling sessions during home room.[/quote]

You do realize those have been key themes of many a book for centuries now?

Hamlet
Macbeth
Count of Monte Cristo
Romeo and Juliet
Scarlett Letter
The Illiad
Lord of the Flies

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+Most great works of literature typically involve war/conflict, poverty, death, despair, and/or injustice--those who are blaming books for the need for counseling for kids are idiots.[/quote]

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