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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is now in a private high school and has finally learned to write.  Before that the writing instruction in MCPS middle school was a joke.  And we were at a highly rated W cluster school.  DS got by with A's in English, but his writing sucked as far as we were concerned.  We were constantly amazed at the wonderful grades he would get for mediocre work.

Once we moved him to private, it was a shock. We had to constantly work with him in helping him organize thoughts and learn to outline things before writing.  Fast forward, he is now a junior and his writing is just fabulous now.  I highly doubt he would be where he is if he stayed in the public school.  The bar is set much higher at his private school when it comes to writing (and other subjects as well).  So the answer to OP is try getting a tutor, but know that the demands for excellence in writing does not exist in MCPS.

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Seriously. Pay to send your kid to private. It sucks but class sizes in public school are insane. Teachers responsible for 5 English classes with 30 students each (many of whom are varying kinds of awful)? God bless those teachers for even trying to teach essays![/quote]

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