Posted on 10/25/2011 11:57:11 AM PDT by Gennie
When it comes to school, there’s no place like home.
If you can’t homeschool, then make the sacrifices necessary to find a good church or synagogue school.
Sounding words out worked fine for me.
Other than the Carden Method, which is how Israeli kids learn English, I guess.
Everything below the word “please not” is an opinion. And it is an opinion backed up with no facts. I’d ignore it, but first I would talk to the teacher to see what empirical evidence they are using to attempt to change my behavior toward my child. And if I disagree with their position still, then I ignore their warning and give my child information and instruction on “questioning authority”.
There’s absolutely no word that can’t be sounded out.
Case in point, my class collapsed in giggles with Shechem yesterday. :)
—If you can’t homeschool, then make the sacrifices necessary to find a good church or synagogue school.—
You can also try stuff like this:
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Public school is SOOOO 19th century.
There is no "strategy" to reading.
I'd get your kid Hooked on Phonics or something like it and tell the affirmative-actioned teachers to F themselves.
See a word. Spell a word. Write a word. Use it in a WRITTEN sentence.
Oh poorly educated Nana...
I was told to “sound-it-out” first by my mother and older sisters then by my teachers...
Then in their turn I told my own children and my grandchioldren to do the same...
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
we waz robeded ov a gud lernnin...
:)
I wonder if these learned educators would care to compare the literacy rates prior the “improvements” to what they have created now.
It's hard to have respect for teachers, professional respect, when they jump on a ‘New’ idea for the sole reason that it's ‘New’. No need to test the theory, no need to see if this leads to improved results, no need to do any studies whatsoever - just knee-jerk reactions, and consistent drops in the quality of student we are graduating.
Most anyone with an ounce of integrity would find it an insult to their professionalism for the state to create a test to determine whether the student was worthy of a Diploma - yet that is exactly what we have.
To even add more salt to the wound (if pride ever existed) is to compare the results of American students to the rest of the world; and we are falling behind further - year after year. If it wasn't so serious; I'd call it pathetic.
Bluntly, she is trying to damage your son's mind.
I would be in the principal’s office. NO ONE is going to undercut what I tell my children in my own home. And anyone who instructs my child to tell me “No” about anything will be on the receiving end of a lawsuit.
in shop class I used to pound it out.
later days, in the Army, we would shoot it out.
“please not” = “please note”
Doh!
Being a proficient reader leads to being a proficient thinker. Being a proficient thinker leads to not voting for Democrats. Not voting for Democrats leads to teachers being required to actually WORK for a living, instead of getting exhorbitant pensions in exchange for party donations while doing nothing. Ergo, no sounding out.
Honestly, this stuff is not hard to figure out if you just recognize how liberals benefit from destroying our country.
My morbid curiosity leads me to wonder what it is that Miss Blank considers a “reading strategy”.
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