If a kid can’t read, that’s the parents’ fault. A middle school English teacher has your kid one hour a day, five days a week, for 270 days, in a room with 29 other kids. That means she can afford about 2 minutes individually at most each day (less if they’ve mainstreamed the special ed kids, because teachers spend most of their time dealing with that crap.) She can give him about 9 hours of undivided personal attention per year. Parents can give them that much a week, if they budget their time. But most of them don’t.
“If a kid can’t read, that’s the parents’ fault.”
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What if the parents can’t read?
I’ve been posting for years that **all** academically successful children are homeschooled.
It doesn’t matter whether they are institutionalized for their schooling or not. Both groups ( homeschooled or institutionalized) are doing the **same** things in the **home**!
I fully agree. But in many of these cases, the parents can't read either.
Public schools cannot fix this.