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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Curious as to how much writing students are doing in 9th grade.  I pulled my kid out of MCPS for HS and she is reading Jane Eyre right now.  She is required to do significant analytical essays on chosen subject matter from the book.  It's such a very long book.  I can't imagine a typical public school kid having the attention span to read it in its entirety.  Her private only has one level for English in 9th grade. Not sure about the other grades.[/quote]

Big three alum here with two mcps high schoolers. They do very little writing in ninth and tenth and get minimal feedback. IB has writing but again very little feedback or guidance.

The writing instruction is so poor compared compared to what I received. I wish we’d done private for high school but too late now.

I do take issue with your comment about the typical public school student not being able to do it. My kids could do it. The issue is school isn’t providing it[/quote]

My reference to "typical" meant the masses.  If you look at reading scores for public school students, you will know what I mean.  That is why I used the word typical and not all.[/quote]

I still disagree with your comment. I think the typical public school kid is capable of having the attention span to read jane eyre. They just aren’t being prepared or expected to do so most of the time.

Although my kids have read some books on par with Jane eyre. They’re just not expected to write about the books in the same way we were, nor do they receive the same amount of feedback when they do write. And I saw your comment about small classes and feedback and I agree.the teachers have too many students to provide that level of feedback. And I’m not sure how many of the MCPS teachers would even be good at providing that level of feedback even if they did have the time.

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