Posted on 02/13/2023 12:40:25 PM PST by george76
It was a way to stifle the good readers so that there was not such a discrepancy between races in that subject. Your kid had to suffer to hid the discrepancy.
Well, sure. But I meant twice the time. Your twice is a premium and the subject for another thread.
As a teacher, I am disgusted by CRT and SEL initiatives that seem to do all they can to assign blame to everyone but the real culprits - the families themselves. Government schools are perfectly in step with indoctrinating our kids with the latest SJW garbage, liberal politics and the dumbing down of academic standards. To what end? “Graduating” inept and inarticulate, non-critical thinkers that make perfect sheep for government programs.
In saner times, kids read books at home.
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Back in day when I was a child we had what was called
‘bookmobiles’ that came around and youngsters were able
to check them out for reading. I think it was every two
weeks. During summer months when school was out they
came to locations in various communities.
I was addicted to Hardy Boys novels by the time I started kindergarten.
"Suckers"? Wouldn't the real suckers be the ones who leave something important for their kid to learn to the government?
But it's really simpler than that. My parents taught me to read and write when I was 4--because I kept asking. I was writing unintelligible squiggles on paper in imitation of real writing anyway.
I was a drawing nut. So they used that. My mother wrote the name of some object she knew I could draw on the page. I had to draw a picture of the thing above its name.
Ideally, basic literacy is not something that should be entrusted to public employees. They don't know your kid.
Not surprising. Public schools in my area are at 11% - 12% reading proficiency.
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Public schools are worse than useless, unless all you care about is free babysitting and you don't care what happens to your kids while they are there.
You’re living in a fantasy. Real life, children need parents. Parents who are lazy think the schools will teach their kids everything. It was never true.
Teach em to pole dance at drag queen shows. That’s all they need to know. (/sarcasm).
“Fourth graders can’t read because they were kept at home for two years.”
This was a glaring problem long before WuFlu and the lockdowns.
Fourth graders can’t read because they were kept at home for two years.
Nearly all lessons are conducted through either a smart board or to students on their individual chrome books. Actual books appear to only be rarely used. Only the brightest or most driven students actually appear to read and do any kind of math without the crutch of a calculator. They are very good at ‘looking things up’, but not so much when it comes to actually ‘knowing’ anything. I find it all very discouraging.
In my little town, there was a Community Center; and, in the summer a small room that had an outside door, was turned into a reading library. I would go there and get books to read all through the summer.
I wonder if those two books are even allowed in public schools these days.
And, get this. They want a new language. A language that doesn’t square with anything they consider anthropocentric. Books aren’t necessary. Functional literacy is what they want. How to read bathroom signs.
In the mid sixties, I was introduced to the “see and say” method of reading instruction being taught to a girlfriend’s son. He had no problem with “elephant”, or “giraffe”, but when it came to “they, them ,what, when, where, why, the” and others, he had no idea since there were no pictures for those words. He would guess two or three of them, and if not right, would get frustrated.
“I thank the Lord I was educated in the 60s and 70s.”
Me, too. NY state now is an educational hell hole, but in the ‘50s and ‘60s when I was there, it kicked ass. I appreciate the education I got there.
Real life, children need parents. Absolutely. Public schooling? Good luck. I think the OP shows you the morass.
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