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[quote=Anonymous]It wasn't the teaching or any kind of osmosis -- it was me, the parent, painstakingly coaching my child through every. single. syllable. of the books they sent home every week.

Maybe the bottom line is that small group reading instruction isn't particularly valuable.  So the 15 min. my kid got each week didn't really matter.  It was just depressing to think how much of the school day was frittered away in "stations" and how little teacher interaction there was each week.

To 23:25 -- my belief is that all kids are not making those kinds of gains b/c their parents are not meticulous about pushing/coaxing their children through the leveled reading books each and every night.  I believe that most kids could make those gains if they had that kind of home attention.  I've gotten to the point that I send my kids to FCPS mainly for the structure and social interaction.... not so much for increasing their abilities in reading and math (I end up doing that at home).  For the other subjects (writing, history, science) I think FCPS has done pretty well (except that we do spelling work at home b/c DD is terrible at that and she never learned to hold a pencil correctly -- neither did my son... so maybe not so much credit to FCPS on the grammar part of writing.)  I guess in their kinderg. classes (of 30 kids), the teachers didn't have time to teach them to hold a pencil correctly.  No fixing that now....[/quote]

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