No my oldest’s school didn’t require that. I don’t recall that either, but I was in 4th grade in the mid-80s so my recollection may be off. They do a fair bit

No my oldest’s school didn’t require that. I don’t recall that either, but I was in 4th grade in the mid-80s so my recollection may be off. They do a fair bit of writing, but not as rigorous as what I had in 5th grade. We had to write legit 5-paragraph essays and reports (I remember this because I struggled with it), and my son’s longest compositions were only required to be 1- or 2-paragraph blurbs in a composition book. It seems like they took the bottom 40% of learners as the baseline for their implementation of Common Core. If anything they should have at least taken the middle 40%, since that brackets the mean in a normal distribution. But what do I know. I just have a PhD in physics and have forgotten more math and statistics than they ever learned, and don’t make use of those ridiculous algorithmic tricks they teach and force kids to use, instead of fundamentals.