Omar,
Please tell us the names of those good grammar books!
Jan


On Fri, 12 May 2006, MCJ wrote:

> Teachers may also feel some anxiety about why it is necessary to teach 
> certain things. Children do influence teachers and are often resistent 
> to learning things that they see as "stupid", and this does extend to 
> other subjects such as math and history. I think that some effort has 
> been made, particularly in math, to make what children are being taught 
> relevant to what happens in the world and I have actually seen 
> interesting grammar books that have been written for students. My own 
> son's seventh grade grammar book is toxic, in my opinion. I expect that 
> this is true of many materials currently in use. He is a good writer and 
> I have managed to convince him that grammar can help him write better, 
> so he is still hanging on.
> 
> Omar
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