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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those that say you need faith it will all come together or that have otherwise had good experience, what did the experience look like to you?

At our school, I know a lot of families are being told their kids are a little behind on things like reading, and the school can be a bit cagey about providing a lot of information to parents.  I have found this all a bit disturbing.[/quote]

I can offer DCs' school's writing curriculum as an example. Getting children comfortable with and confident about the process (and the wonderful rewards) of putting one's thoughts to paper was the focus during the earlier years, and things like spelling, adherence to grammar and punctuation rules, and proper paragraph structure were not emphasized over content. The kids wrote often and about everything, but their writing when compared to a child in the same grade at a more traditional school would likely have raised some people's eyebrows. The formalities of writing and correct spelling came a little later, at a time when teaching them was less likely to inhibit reluctant writers.[/quote]

Ugh. This is the opposite of what most kids need and takes the wrongheaded view that learning to spell is somehow deleterious to learning to express yourself. [/quote]

The PP sounds like she's talking about the writer's workshop model, which describes how they "teach" writing in our local public elementary. I think a workshop model for K-2nd is idiotic.[/quote]

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