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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public elementary - was not happy, except with the first grade teacher who of her own initiative taught herself how to teach phonics. She was awesome. Other than that, the kids were given sub-standard, non-evidence based language arts instruction.

Private elementary - much happier. The official curriculum is in some ways not much better than public (there's still too much Lucy Calkins influence), but it includes explicit teaching of spelling, grammar, and how to structure a paragraph. There are whole class novels. There are five paragraph essays.

Private middle - quite happy, backfilled a lot of gaps created in public elementary.

But this is the stereotype about public v. private these days, of course. Private will teach your kid to read and write. Public won't. But public high school will generally have better STEM education simply by having higher numbers of kids who are prepared for it, except when compared to the most high achieving, hard-to-get-into privates.[/quote]

How important is it to have top notch STEM though? I keep hearing AI and international talents are filling in the tech and science sectors. Isn’t it better going forward to have kids competent in Calc level math and Biology/Chem/Physics and be able to write and think critically, versus not being able to read full books or write well but able to code a game or build a robot? [/quote]

Good question.  The skills that give someone an advantage with large language models are literacy and critical thinking not STEM.

That's the huge irony.  LLM's (ie: AI) take the STEM out of tech.[/quote]
 Have you ever seen an AI lab research scientist opening ask for an English PhD?[/quote]

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