Posted on 02/11/2024 3:32:01 PM PST by algore
I said I have a college degree. But not a doctorate in Liberal Educrat Verbal Diarrhea.
That one is beyond me!
Somehow, many generations learned to read without porn.
Actually, he’s right. I read the gibberish with no problem. The mind and how it works are beautiful things.
I like it.
I know a retired teacher who now subs and tutors in elementary school. She says that there are fewer and fewer "smart" kids who get everything easily. And most of the rest are in special ed - turns out there are financial incentives both for the schools and the parents to have more kids with IEPs. And each kid's IEP mandates different conditions - one has to have the questions read to him on a test and only given 2 choices instead of 4 or 5, for example, so the teacher is testing multiple children in different ways in the same class. Who can teach or learn anything in an environment like that? And whenever a "SPED" kid acts up, they are not allowed to be punished unless they physically hurt someone, so they all know to act out to avoid doing anything they don't want to do.
This is the future of America......
“That one is beyond me!”
It was a hilarious sentence!
But something magical happens with language when a black child is born. Parents who couldn’t get through two pages of “Dick, Jane, and Sally” are able to cobble together letters and create unique (trashy) name for their kids. They even throw in an apostrophe from time to time.
It’s magical.
In our school in the ‘50s and ‘60s, we had “SQ3R”, which was much like your dad’s method. I loved it.
I was reading before I started kindergarten.
Since when did teaching kids how to read become the job of publik skrewl teachers?!
I’d forgotten about that. It’s interesting.
That sounds like what boys did with Playboy when I was younger.
You see you have to know how to read FIRST to figure out what the words could mean. And you can not decipher them with the same fluidity that you can words that are spelled properly. Which means you are not actually READING. You are attempting to figure out what some illiterate jerk is trying to say. And it is undoubtedly not worth it.
I know that people who want children illiterate are desperate to try to show that it is all the kids fault not that of the teachers but they are as usual wrong. There is a right and wrong way to teach someone to read, not just know what a string of meaningless symbols represent.
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