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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet FCPS has enough funding to push FCPSon down to middle schools this year, and elementary schools after that, even though they don't have funding to supply teachers and students with textbooks and workbooks.  I'm so sick of seeing the worksheets that come home that are riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, and the deemphasis on correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar usage in elementary school.  Like a previous poster, I have many of my FCPS papers from (ahem) 30+ years ago, when I went to a school that was then, and is now, rated far lower than the ones my kids attend. Yet from grades K-3, the 1980s schoolwork was ALL on handwriting paper with lines, everything was corrected by the teachers for spelling and punctuation, and by the end of 2nd grade, the work (from the entire class, many of whom were 1st generation or immigrants) was far better than the stuff the current, highly rated school, posts as its "show-off" work for parents.
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I know. This is what I don't get. How did teachers in the past grade papers daily and yet I can't get a single FCPS teacher to grade more than 2 writing assignments a year with more than 1 comment for each and for the most part I don't see a single comment because "we don't want to discourage elementary writers". Somehow generations went through school and got comments on their writing and survived. It's so silly and just an obvious push to have the teacher do less work.[/quote]

When I went through school, parent volunteers in the classroom edited our writing and gave us that feedback.  That is no longer allowed (and for good reason!) So yeah, I got more feedback as a kid, but was it better? Doubtful.[/quote]

Parent volunteers or subs have no business on daily classroom work. None. Why would a parent be allowed in her/ his kid’s grade? [/quote]

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