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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny how public v private pretty much makes zero difference when actually out in the workforce.  I see no evidence that private school kids in my field are better critical thinkers, etc. [/quote]

On the contrary - I can almost always tell when a job applicant to my firm has gone to private school by their cover letter and writing sample.[/quote]

If your firm is Dairy Queen or the movie theater hiring HS kids, sure.  If your firm is a normal business hiring college grads, the quality of education at college would be more important than HS, never mind ES.  And if your firm is a law firm, then you are simply full of it, since college and law school is going to be vastly more important since a kid graduated with honors from HLS clearly wasn't held back by deficiencies in early ed.[/quote]

I completely disagree with this.  I'm not PP who wrote this, but I developed my grammar skills in middle school and writing skills in HS.  I went to a private school and we wrote and rewrote and rewrote, again and again and again.  College did nothing to further these skills.

I was a fairly average student at my school.  In my college Freshman English class after grading my first paper, my professor asked if I would help tutor other students.  I received an A in legal writing in law school with little effort while my friends, even those who had gone to top colleges, didn't do as well.  Another difference is presentation skills.  The private school kids seem to have greater poise.  I suspect this is because they do more presentations and have more opportunities to take such as speech and drama.  [/quote]
College professor here. I agree completely. It's pretty rare that a kid's writing and grammar are drastically changed in college. That stuff is very much developed K-12. [/quote]

My dad was the CEO of a large publicly traded corporation who wrote extensively and well on business during his career.  He attended mediocre public schools in the rural South.

The way he told it, his grammar and writing skills started to develop his first year of college when he received a paper back full of red ink and a big, fat D at the top.  He was working full time to pay for his school and put off going to Viet Nam (which only worked until it didn't), so there was no way in hell that he was going to get anything other than As on his transcript.  He worked with his professors and wrote every paper multiple times until it was well written and grammatical.

My sense is that grammar and writing skills are learned when a teacher takes the time to teach those skills, whether in k-12 or college. [/quote]

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