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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS is an embarrassment with not teaching grammar. These young elementary kids are missing out. They should memorize and understand irregular verbs, parts of speech, pronouns, contractions, sentence fragments, compound sentences, conjunctions, plural conventions, etc. And, yet they go head strong and all puffed up saying, look the students can write a news article, a fiction piece, a poem, etc. Yet, they are not taught foundation material—the basics.  It’s Lucy Calkins at her finest—just write kids!  Who cares about teaching sentence structure with subjects and verbs? Who cares about adjectives or adverbs? Just be more descriptive, kid.  It’s pitiful.  [/quote]

A couple days on these things is not really teaching them English. It’s a lot of BS tjough I have to say that this is one area that public schools have lagged behind parochial and private schools for decades.

Our kids are not taught English. They do not know the names of various verb tenses. They might know what the subject of a sentence is but not what a direct or indirect object is. When I transferred to parochial school it was eye opening. (I will also say it was eye opening how much Catholic school lagged in grade school math — though classmates caught up quickly and a some went to MIT, Michigan, Stanford,  and other well regarded schools and have made names for themselves in their respective fields).

I had reasonable expectations for FCPS but those were quickly dashed. AAP has expectations closer to what EVERY student in a mainstream classroom was supposed to glean from school up until the 80s. My public middle school classmates would be BORED at the pace that classes move today .

If I could afford to move my kids out of FCPS, I would do it in a heartbeat.

My kids have had some awesome teachers but they are hamstrung by the system. It makes me sad and angry. Don’t even get me started on the soft racism of low expectations for FARMS students. [/quote]

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