Posted on 12/07/2017 2:09:18 AM PST by Altura Ct.
California has broken its promise to millions of schoolchildren with an education system that is failing to teach students to read or write, advocates charged Tuesday in a lawsuit seeking a statewide right of “access to literacy.”
The suit was filed on behalf of current and former elementary school students and their families in two districts in Los Angeles and Stockton, and a charter school in Los Angeles County. The lead plaintiff is a 7-year-old second-grader who can’t spell words like “need” and “help,” lawyers said.
They said students in one charter school class couldn’t read their social studies lesson and had to listen to an audio version. Some Stockton students “start crying when asked to read out loud in class,” the lawsuit said. And one student said his brother didn’t learn to read until he was held in juvenile hall at age 16.
Statewide, the picture is equally grim, the suit said: Among the nation’s largest school districts, California has 11 of the 26 lowest-performing districts in literacy and basic education.
“California is dragging down the nation,” said attorney Mark Rosenbaum of the nonprofit Public Counsel, which filed the suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court along with the San Francisco law firm of Morrison & Foerster.
In response, the state Department of Education, a defendant in the suit, said California “has one of the most ambitious programs in the nation to serve low-income students.”
The state spends more than $10 billion a year on programs for English learners, students from low-income families and foster youths, said the department, headed by Superintendent Tom Torlakson. It said it will provide further support next year to 228 school districts, including those of the three schools in the suit.
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The “public schools” doing exactly what John Dewey deigned them to do—create ignorant useful idiots for slavery of the State.
Get your children out of pubic skools before it rots your child’s brain—so they “think” like a socialist (group-(non)-thinker) and have no ability to have a Christian worldview—that only worldview which created the Age of Reason, Modern Science and the US Constitution.
If the 7 y/o can spell "diversity" and "sanctuary", isn't that more important than reading and math?
Here we have yet another example of what took place in the Soviet Union and East Bloc finding it’s way into North America. The teachers’ unions and others running public schools do their quotas and are rewarded by the paternalistic and authoritarian hierarchy regardless of the results achieved.
Well, now the elites can quit dragging down the southern states as being “illiterate”, California has now stolen that crown.
Of course....”cool”, is the only thing that matters to these people, and “yo don’t need no school, to be cool”.
It doesn’t matter if they can’t read or write, as long as they vote Democrat. In fact, reading and writing often makes students LESS likely to vote Democrat, since reading exposes them to ideas from outside the brainwashing in the schools. The whole purpose of the liberal ‘education’ system is to turn out Democrat voters.
But, they are all trained how to wave their fists, and yell “racist” at everyone they disagree with. That’s the really important thing.
I would frequently tell my students (public or private) that they should tell their parents to start a class-action suit against the school system for requiring them to take advanced math classes without a sufficient level of numeracy to know how many times 6 goes in 18 (true story).
“Our golden Road to Illiteracy” Regna Lee Wood, National Review, Oct. 18, 1993 p.56
In 1930, 80 per cent of blacks over age 14 could read. In 1990, 56 per cent of blacks over age 14 could read.
As more and more money is spent on education, illiteracy is increasing. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it didn’t end up with virtually the whole revenue of the western countries being spent on education, and a condition of almost total illiteracy resulting therefrom. - Malcolm Muggeridge
This Dewey is not the same one with the decimal system.
Comments from site:
“All of the teachers are Democrats and most of them cannot read or write. So what do they expect?”
“I kid you not, the democrats want to keep people stupid so they can control them.”
“Teaching kids to be social justice warriors instead if math science and reading”
Influx of illegal aliens, combined with the leftist bigotry of low expectations, tossed into the salad of ignorant and bigoted people and BAM! Your kids learn nothing! School is nothing but day care. Pathetic what leftists do to a place.
all that lottery money gone to waste . .
The reason Johnny can’t read is because Johnny’s mama doesn’t care to review his homework or see that he gets to school and Johnny’s daddy is unknown. Johnny is better off in public school for 8 hours a day than on the streets.
That is ridiculous. Any school that can’t teach a kid to read should be liable for malpractice.
That is ridiculous. Any school that can’t teach a kid to read should be liable for malpractice.
If you made Nike Air Jordans required wearing apparel as part of a school uniform, in a few years they'd be the most hated shoe of that generation.
Can’t completely blame the schools. Much of the blame goes to the student body and their parent(s).
Not when the kid is out of control and refuses to sit at his desk or make any attempt to learn. Learning starts at home. Discipline starts at home.
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