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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do so many families supplement academics? I’m truly interested. Is it because your child is falling behind in their curriculum or you’re trying to give them an edge over their peers?[/quote] It's because the school we are at doesn't teach important things. For example for my older two FCPS didn't actually teach phonics (they do better now). So I had to teach them to read, and for the third I taught them preemptively. There's no spelling instruction. The social studies outside of 3rd, 4th, and 6th on up, is completely scattershot and misses large important chunks of history and civics. They don't teach them grammar or how to write a basic essay. Math isn't too bad, but facts are not drilled. So we do all that at home. And I believe at our new private we won't have to. We may still supplement slightly different things - I harbor no delusions that an school is perfect - but they say cover most of what I mentioned above.[/quote]
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