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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with all of this, but I see reading and writing standards being rolled back at every level. In my organization, few people can write and everything is geared toward a TikTok attention span. AI is being heavily pushed. I work in comms at a nonprofit, and my only direct report is a man in his late 40s who cannot write a grammatically correct sentence and makes stupid spelling errors constantly. The newsletter barely has any text and only requires a small amount of editorial judgement to rewrite from press releases (or just cut and paste).

Both my teens can read well, but the younger one has much more interest and reads college level literature and also writes plays. The older one still struggles with punctuation and isn’t a great writer because DCPS doesn’t explicitly teach it well and she’s less inclined, though she his getting an A in AP Lit. She’s a rising senior and has to study punctation rules for the SAT. At least she has that incentive to learn it, hopefully.

Early on, they went to a dual language dcps (title I), where the old school teachers stressed phonics and writing. There was a lot of homework. I’m so grateful to those teachers who didn’t buy into the fads.

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