Booya!! YES!!
I’m a certified ELA teacher in the state of Florida and it is CRIMINAL what the DOE is doing to students.
When I was teaching the hoodrats in the day treatment center, I started teaching them OLD SCHOOL because I could. Phonics, and the big thing these kids were nuts for — cursive writing!!
I found so much on the interwebs to help them.
I taught them to the educational standard (barf!) that the FDOE set forth, but then beefed up their education with real world learning. Phonics, cursive, and reading. Reading to understand, not just answer questions on tests.
My gang bangers were my favorite students. And some of them got their lives back in order.
They were tough, but I miss so many of them.
God bless you. It breaks my heart to see college students with such low knowledge, skill and motivation. Most of them know they have been robbed somehow, but they don’t really see the route to overcoming it.
They get themselves to a college that will take them, but then the colleges give only simple assignments and pass them along pretty much no matter what—rather than chase away their government-funded customers.
“....and the big thing these kids were nuts for — cursive writing!!”
Please tell us more about this. In all the discussions of cursive I’ve seen, nobody mentioned what the kids like.
I.e., the Education Establishment is even more derelict than I thought.