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[Carolinian]

A gifted student suffering in the public system.

I moved my son to private school in 4th grade. At that point the only creative writing experience he had was to make sentences with his spelling words which he began doing after Christmas in the 3rd grade. End of grade testing 3rd grade was for math and reading so I guess writing just wasn't important. (Writing is tested at EOG 4th grade.) When he tested for private school in Feb of 3rd grade, the private school students were writing 4 page reports in cursive (which he hadn't yet been taught). It took him two years to catch up.

BTW, my son had the highest EOG in 3rd grade in the county school system.