On 2010-06-09, Jim Stewart wrote:
Ignoramus967 wrote:
My 9 year old got his report card scores today. His percentile rank is
at 99% in math, but only 92% in English.

I think that he can do better than than on English. I got 90% on GMAT
verbal part, after just one year of living here, and he's lived in the
US for 9 years, out of which he spoke English for 6 years.

I don't think you should do a thing about it. Your son could be a
great writer and still be marked down for whatever the test creator
decided was not above average for his group. I remember coaching my
daughter on an writing assignment in 4th grade. She came up with a
delightful sentence or two and I remarked that Steinbeck could not
have said it better. The teacher 'corrected' the sentence to a more
bland form.

We need people that carry over part of their ethic style. Look what
Joseph Conrad did. An incredible novelist who didn't speak fluent
English until he was in his twenties.

I think that going to a library more often, discussing books etc,
should not hurt too much.

i