Posted on 07/28/2018 5:06:38 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
where’s Betsy DeVos? I thought we would have heard something from her by now on our education system. It’s like she fell of the face of the earth
The children may not be able to read but at least the teachers were able to fund their UNIONS.
Poor demos. Going to have to look other places for rat funding.
“”My kid can’t read. What should I do?”
Get off your fat, useless, mammon-worshipping “conservative” ass and attend a schoolboard meeting to demand an answer.
Sometimes, conservatives are as stupid as liberals.
Oh Lordy! How rewarding!!! Thank You!!!
I rarely see books in homes any more. I know some have books on devices but I so rarely see someone reading a book on a device or hard copy that I know that is not the whole answer. I began to notice few books in homes before it was possible to read books on a device. When I was growing up homes were full of books, some people had newspapers, magazines and comic books while others had bookshelves or rooms full of books as well- but nearly everyone had something around to read.
I attended Detroit Public Schools on the east side of Detroit until about 1969. The most exciting thing that happened during the school year, for me, was the week when the teacher brought in the small pamphlet of books that were available to purchase by me and my classmates. I have always been a voracious reader ever since I learned how to, so I alway enoyed purchasing those books over fifty years ago. Some of the books I remember purchasing was Encyclopedia Brown, Ivanhoe, and a Tale of Two Cities.
Teach them to read yourself. My mom taught me to read when I was three. (And she didn't even have a teaching certificate.) {But then thanks to the NEA and the AFOT drones, it is probably illegal to teach your own kids anything useful without a license nowdays.}
But seriously, if you can't homeschool, at least start working with your kids at about three years old to teach them to read.
“Sometimes, conservatives are as stupid as liberals.”
What conservative are you addressing?
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Uhhh...teach it? Assuming they can read themselves. My great niece went to kindergarten. Writing her name,knowing the alphabet and counting to 20. We read to her from birth. She is a voracious reader now and an A student in her senior year.
My father taught me to read (phonetically) before I started school. I am forever grateful to him for that.
Don’t breed ‘em if you can’t read ‘em...
Dick and Jane were sight books.
Almost everything in that drawing is denigrated and rejected by modern popular culture and by the Ruling Class.
When I was tested in the fifth grade, I had a reading level of a student in grade twelve. Also, later when I was tested, I was in the ninety-eighth percentile for reading comprehension. I hate to brag, but I’m better today.
Reading is such a key to education, problems with reading are an obvious cause of nearly every other issue with students that act out and drop out.
By second or third grade readers are off and running, those that cannot read are so embarrassed they begin act out to divert attention. Students that cannot read cannot succeed at any other subject, even math is tough if you cannot read the directions. At a certain point the student that cannot read to their grade level just gives up and stops trying.
Yet schools, and many teachers act as though the issues with school are all separate issues to be dealt with. Reading has to be a priority and it doesn’t seem to be treated that way by most educators. They say it is critical, but their actions don’t show that they believe it.
I think so many of my fellow ‘educators’ are idiots themselves, and don’t have the ability or patience to get their kids reading.
They also insist that reading HAS to be done at home.
Most of my kids come from drug addicted, homeless, criminal parents who are barely literate themselves... so to get *them* to read?
Yeah... right.
Nope, kids don’t have to be taught to read by sight, that comes automatically once they master phonics. Don’t get caught up in their BS that the best solution is a mix of both, do not! Phonics is the ONLY approach to teach kids reading.
It’s similar to people like Colin Powell saying that conservatives are a bit too ‘rough around the edges’ and liberals have valid points - so Trump should alternate judicial selections with Schumer for the best outcome for the country. Or that calculators should be used in kindergarten, but not all the time.
There are ABSOLUTES and teaching sight words in any form is simply DESTRUCTIVE to kids, and will screw them up as they try to figure out whether to apply phonics or sight words, when they see something new. Stay away from sight words!
Use www.play-n-talk.com Play’N Talk are phonic dvds for students to follow with books. I homeschooled for a couple decades and always used this method. The teacher is a British lady the kids love.
It seems I was tested high but I couldn’t say how much now. That was the late 70s.
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