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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How silly. I was a gifted kid in a school system with effectively no program. Yes, school was a little boring (up to and including my top college). Yes, I did a lot of independent reading. Which, incidentally, is great training for being a grown up. [b]No one needs some personally-tailored super challenging middle school experience[/b]. [/quote]

No one NEEDS it, but it might nonetheless be nice to have it.[/quote]

The real problem is this: public elementary school doesn't provide an adequate foundation for success.

Private schools introduce foreign language in K.

[b]Private schools teach vocabulary and grammar. (I was diagramming sentences in 4th grade.)[/b]

Private schools foster structure and discipline, and students are well equipped for HS and college thanks to the traditional approach to education.

I could go on and on. [/quote]

I've been wondering about this lately, about what seems to be a lack of spelling and grammar being taught.  When or at what point are things like subject/verb agreement, vocabulary, spelling, etc taught?  Lots of math worksheets, but I've never seen a language arts worksheet.[/quote]

They aren't actually taught.

While the teacher scrambles to rotate four groups during the reading block, kids rotate through other "centers" which is mcps speak for "working independently on a grammar worksheet that typically isn't graded.

You need to teach grammar at home.

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