Posted on 07/03/2018 2:30:34 AM PDT by Libloather
Add in the whole BLM attitude. "Acting white" will get a kid ostracized at best and usually beaten to a pulp in the inner city.
The one who do get some education move out and up, leaving the mess behind. A self-perpetuating mass of ignorance and crime.
“Personally my mother made me literate, several years before I ever saw the inside of a classroom.”
Same with me. Dr. Sowell had my ‘eyes wide open’ as to what would happen to my kids in public school, so never happened for my kids. I taught them, math and reading, and early.
Literacy, along with all forms of education, takes effort. Those that can/win do so by effort. Those that can’t/lose, are lazy.
Many bookstores will donate surplus books to good causes. They often just have to rip off the front cover and return it to the vendor for credit to prove they didn't sell it.
Others will sell in bulk to surplus outlets like Ollie's where great books can be had for literally pennies on the dollar.
Kids will drive parents crazy asking them to read certain favorite books over and over and over again. Then one day you will see your grandchildren doing the same thing to YOUR kids and you'll just sit back, smile and enjoy it!
Somehow an old article by Charlie Reese, years ago came to mind... A takeoff on the 2nd Amendment.
“’A well educated elite, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to become educated shall not be infringed’-does not mean only the elite are allowed to be educated.”
Well, now it is.
Unfortunately it is on Washington state constitution. The judges ruled the state pony up an additional $32 BILLION for the K-12 public schools.
hahaha.... I'm old but I still remember that! And you know they are faking it when they are saying it out loud word for word but turning the pages at the wrong time! Hehehe.
When they do start reading you will get the constant,
"what's this word dad?"
I'm not sure there was ever a conscious effort to teach them to read at a young age; if you are reading to them every day from a young age they just seem to pick it up and start asking questions? And then one day they are opening up new books you just brought home and they are actually reading them!
One of the many joys of being a parent.
The Founding Fathers fought against “taxation without representation”, and were just as opposed to “representation without taxation” - only taxpayers (landowners at the time, before income or sales taxes) could vote when this country was founded, and with good reason.
The primary means to keep the government in check, in the eyes of the Founding Fathers, was to restrict voting to taxpayers. With that model, government could only serve those who funded it; non-contributing parasites couldn’t vote themselves shares of the producers’ wealth.
You are right. I didn’t mean to word it otherwise.
More like “School alone is the one place one cannot become literate.” I doubt a SINGLE KID now learns to read exclusively in a public school, there is ALWAYS outside help to teach him the RIGHT WAY to read.
I entered primary school in 1968. There were a dozen or so kids from that kindergarten class who graduated high school together in the spring of 1981.
Those of us who had been taught basic reading skills at home, before we started our formal schooling, were all able to succeed based on our own level of motivation.
The handful that started kindergarten with no ability to read were behind from the beginning, and they were behind at the end.
“The handful that started kindergarten with no ability to read were behind from the beginning, and they were behind at the end. “
Yep, and do not, for a minute, think it’s not intentional. They now use ‘Sight Words’ though 3rd grade to teach ‘reading’. Pretty much no different than Whole Language, and with exactly the same results...nothing learned.
Then, in 4th grade, those kids who were not lucky enough to be taught separately from the schools finally start on Phonics. Once can only imagine where their lives will go.
The fact that they do, eventually, go to Phonics is their admission that Phonics actually does work, and the fact that they delay its use for years, when they know it works on kids at least as young as 3 years old, is evidence that what they’re doing is intentional.
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