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OK, 23:58 coming back.

I've just confirmed with my 6th grader - he has 0 essays to write, which is concerning. He's at the North Bethesda middle school.

Would you mind giving me a little detail on the type of essays your child has to write? And which school, if you are prepared to share the name? I want to compare the standards here, and maybe prepare some hard questions for the teachers :-)[/quote]

I bet the teacher's will love such useless questions. 
1. Essays aren't the only good way to learn.
2. All your kid needs from middle school is good grades -- as long as he's doing well on the stuff he [b]is [/b] assigned he'll be fine and no further involvement is needed.[/quote]

Useless, perhaps, because they're not going to implement anything they don't want to implement. However, I will have made my point.

I completely refute the philosophy behind your other points.
Essays are essential to developing writing. At a certain point, they are the ONLY way to move forward with writing.
The only thing my child needs from school is good grades????? Oh hell no. The only thing my child needs from school is a good education, and I'll worry about the grades later. If he does well now because the teachers are not preparing him adequately for what's to come, it will rebound on him, not the teachers or me. Further involvement is needed if only to register parental displeasure at the current low standards and low expectations. It therefore helps if I can quote OP and what they do at her child's school. This is what I allowed my friend to do - my son's elementary had a great writing program, and she went to her child's school to ask if they could have the same one. This is how parents implement change, PP.
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Middle school is only a required steppingstone to high school, which, again, is necessary primarily in order to get into a good college and hopefully with scholarships. Why burn bridges with the school district by making waves about things that aren't actually problems, or purposefully make more work for both the teacher and the students?
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