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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Diagramming a sentence is not the only thing in grammar and my child has learned sentence structure without actual diagramming.  But she did not learn it in public school.  As a matter of fact, she only learned simple spelling there.  Most of reading in ES was jut reading/comprehension.   Never how to structure a sentence.  Types of sentences, types of grammar like: action, linking, helping verbs (regular and irregular), adverbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, subjects, predicates, prepositions, conjunctions, etc...  She also didn't get vocabulary words (defining a word, putting it correctly in a sentence and knowing the type of word it was) until private school too.  The other thing I noticed was difference was actual writing.  Knowing how to write a letter, how to start and end a paragraph, when to shift to a new paragraph. Conclusions of a short story, etc...  I am telling you, she was absolutely behind after leaving public school.  MCPS has too much focus on reading comprehension because they have to handle so many non-English students.  Lots of busy work instead of teaching to the class.  [/quote]

That's interesting, because my kids in MCPS have had parts of speech, vocabulary, letter-writing, paragraph-writing, and short-story writing. What MCPS school was your daughter in, and when?[/quote]

My child went to a Potomac elementary school and starting middle school...considered the best in the county, no?  Yet her writing skills are still not where they should be for someone at her grade level despite the consistent A's in English classes.  We are moving to a private hopefully next year so that she can get the basic education that is needed to prepare for college.  It's not all about math, as MCPS appears to believe.  You can be the greatest engineer or scientist, but if you can't communicate effectively, you will not reach the highest success.  I am afraid that is what is happening right now in many public schools.  Frightening.[/quote]

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