Posted on 09/10/2025 12:36:50 PM PDT by Morgana
Why are so many teachers quitting? In this video, we explore the shocking reality that many high school students can’t read at even a basic level—and the heartbreaking impact it’s having on dedicated educators. Watch real stories, expert insights, and the growing crisis in our classrooms.
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The college system is now rigged to get illiterate students through to graduation.
Touché
The parents have abdicated.
I used to help my granddaughter when she was in junior high and high school. We’d be working on some homework and she’d say.....how do you know all that? lol The thing that really amazed her was that I could do math in my head before she even got the problem written down on paper. I taught her my shortcuts.
And yet DECADES of students learned to read in the past.
Did THOSE parents abdicate as well?
Parents send their children to school to LEARN.
Definitions- parent vs teach.
If you want to make the argument that parents aren't parenting their children I'm all up for that debate, but don't make a failed education system synonymous with parental abdication.
It’s true, it can be done. It has been done succesfully. But learning to read is still best learned at home, before going to school
Mainstreaming has done more damage than that I think. It is like communism bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator.
Not doing so doesn't mean parents have abdicated their responsibilities...which is pretty much what you've stated.
Some parents have no idea how to teach reading which is why they send their children to school.
And what about the parents themselves who can't read because THEIR schooling was inadequate? How are they supposed to teach their children to read?
Don't backpedal now.
Definition of 'mainstreaming'
1. the act of placing a pupil with additional support needs into a class for those without additional support needs.
Everybody passes (participation trophy graduation) is the culprit. Keeping them back from going to the next grade (flunking students) solves "mainstreaming" problems.
JMO, YMMV
Why are you so vociferous? I pretty much agree with and you want to “hang” me for using the word abdicate. Anyhow, the general sense of abdicate concerns the responsibility of parents letting their children be raised by destructive forces or some other such dehumanizing entities.
And to think that reading can be acquired as easy as chilsren acquire the skill to speak!
Why do you so readily, and easily, take umbrage in my comments?
Most can read, few can comprehend or figure out much on their own.
They have to be taught.
The lack of reading skills can be traced to abandoning phonics and using long failed look-say methods to teach reading. English is pretty much a phonetic language,yet the educational establishment insists on teaching it by memorizing words as if they were teaching ancient Egyptian hierogliphics.
Try as I will, I can’t even remember how I learned to read. I’m sure the teachers had a system at the time, but I’d have to find out what it was and learn it before I could teach children as effectively as I was taught. It just seems to have happened by some sort of intellectual ‘osmosis’.
I realized I could read from watching a commercial.
Do you remember the old Gulf gas commercials and the logo?
Once I made the connection from the ending script that the letters spelled a word I was off to the races.
It's still a vivid memory for me from childhood.
I simply can’t remember. I do know I wanted to be able to read what was in all those books, so I had incentive.
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