Originally Posted by Agent99
It's been our experience that grammar, parts of speech, sentence construction and the like are simply skimmed over, if taught at all.

Totally agree. DD8 sometimes gets spelling errors corrected on her writing assignments, but rarely anything beyond that. She's a generally good writer (because she reads voraciously), but would benefit more from detailed feedback than from being passed on through with errors intact.

She did a Michael Clay Thompson grammar class through GLL last summer, and learned more grammar from that than from an entire year of school.