Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read

CBS NY ^

[SMGFan]

It’s an education bombshell.

Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.

The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.

When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.

They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.

[Marie]

Are you kidding?? My son can do algebra and trig in his head thanks to Saxon math. His college profs are stunned by his mathematical abilities thanks to Saxon. (No thanks to me, the homeschool teacher who can’t calculate her way out of a paper bag...)

Saxon teaches you the *how* and the *why* of math. Yes, you have to practice, but that’s the way it is with all math.

[Marie]

Oh, and my son is a machinist. He thinks in four dimensions and calculate every aspect of the process.

Thanks to Saxon.

[Gertie]

Kinda makes you wonder why newspapers are in trouble...

[verga]

Report me to the mods if you are so convinced.

[rmlew]

This is a disaster. 1/2 of Public school students, virtually all non-white fail to graduate. Roughly 13% of all public, private and parochial students who enter school graduate and are competent in an 8th grade level or above.

[verga]

It’s about NYC schools, I was just pointing out something the schools ARE teaching since they apparently do not teach reading.

Title of the thread: Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read

Thread is about reading in NYC school not about sex. LEARN A NEW SONG.

[GeronL]

Now you are being ridiculous.

You are way too defensive when people attack perverts on this thread.

[GeronL]

Now you are being ridiculous.

You are way too defensive when people attack perverts on this forum.

[LostInBayport]

I and my three children were proficient readers at least a year prior to enrolling in grade one. We are not necessarily a whole lot smarter than the average, but just possibly being nurtured in a family environment was helpful. Government interventions, however well intentioned, are not adequate substitutes.

Amen. My parents and grandparents encouraged me to read, and they said I was doing so by age three. I doubt I could comprehend much of what I was reading at that time, but once that process started...what a wonderful world opened up for me. They bought me truckloads of comics and books. Every week we would visit my grandmother and she'd ask if I had finished the last Hardy Boys book she'd given me...when I said 'yes' she would disappear and then reappear with the next volume. They are here in my study (and were part of the inspiration for my FR name).

Parents (and grandparents) are the key. You gave them such a gift by encouraging them.

[SunkenCiv]

Wait a second -- according to Secretary of State John Kerry, aren't they going to be stuck in Iraq?

...need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.

Someone will be calling them at home, since it's pointless to send them a letter of rejection.

Thanks SMGFan.

[Cvengr]

Except that in NY schools, where 80% cannot read, the bell curve is the line that forms after they HEAR the recess bell. /s

[verga]

You are way too defensive when people attack perverts on this forum.

Just so I understand, you believe that 100% of all public school teachers are perverts. Is that correct?

[NonValueAdded]

So much for the vaunted Regents’ Exam.

[GeronL]

You aren’t even worth talking to.

[MamaTexan]

My twins were afflicted with the whole word method of reading their first year of school. The abstract thinker did fine, but the logical one just couldn't 'catch on' to reading.

I was taught with phonics waaaay back when, and although I'm not quite old enough to have used these in a schoolroom, the McGuffey Readers from the late 1800 are what we used the help her out.

They're actually free for Kindle on Amazon - McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader

[Mygirlsmom]

.where have all the childern gone?

Private school? We have similar issues in Milwaukee. It's mandated that teachers, firefighters and city workers live in the city but they do NOT send their kids to Milwaukee Public Schools.