“”My kid can’t read. What should I do?”
One should have asked that question before birthing a child with bad genes.
Uhhhh your response was I hope in sarcasm...
The author of the article is a friend of mine and in my view having been involved in education for decades at the professional level (Corporate - technical and other skills) he is an expert in what he says. We have talked many times and all here are in agreement that the removal of the foundations (vowels, phonics etc) has been devastating to anyone who attends a public school pretty much no matter what state you live in.
So if they are tasked with providing this and we as taxpayers fund it then why are they continuing on the same path. It seems to me that if they are supposed to be turning out functional graduates and they are not they are in violation of their contract to “educate” the children in their care. This to me should open the door for alternatives but if you know how it is all wired together even charter school funding has to feed through this parasitic system and in many cases Union Teachers must be hired.
So as many have posited here the only alternative until we can throw the rascals out is to do it ourselves. When my daughter was 3 her education began by me and her grandmother as we;ll as watching a lot of sesame street (circa 1980) When she entered kindergarten she could read, knew all the alphabet, a lot of math and had been taking piano lessons since she was 4.
So Mariner I ask again who your comment is pointed at, as this issue has no color or country of birth associated to it.