Any teeth to this story?
Notice, not one word of Illegal Aliens(or the euphemism Undocumented Workers) or their children infesting the schools of Georgia.
This is the real problem.
This is what is dragging down the reading, english, history, and math scores.
As with many of the ills besetting our culture today, Illegal Immigration is a primary factor in this problem.
Actually, some qualifiers are due for this story which will never be told. The City of Atlanta, most of Fulton County, Dekalb County and nearly every other ‘urban’ minority-controlled school districts spend a minimum DOUBLE per student more then outlying districts which get better scores. Last time I read what Atlanta PS spends per/student, it was nearly 3 times the metro counties.
It isn’t illiteracy, it is peer-pressure, uncontrolled minority government, negligence and laxity amongst parent(s) and so on/ Atlanta government spends more time trying to figure out how to dole out the concessions at the airport than it does on education or healthcare (Grady Hospital, for example). ...call it racist, but it’s true.
Readers are leaders! You can’t read, you won’t lead.
These are my observations:
— Our Spanish speaking kids are very smart and all of the speak English very well ( having attended Head Start). It takes tremendous planing for a Mexican family to get into the United States. It is expensive and requires a tremendous effort, and self-discipline, on their part to save the money. This is especially true if they come illegally. Therefore, the parents and children from Latin America are **very** smart!!!!
— Since our congregation's kids are so smart, they **easily** memorize the first 100 words needed for 1st grade and then the 200 or so words needed in 2nd grade. Their parents think that they are learning to read when they are **NOT**. In third grade they hit a wall.
— We have noticed that when we go to regional cub scout meetings that the Anglo kids are struggling as well.
— I conclude that if any child in this county can read ( Anglo or Latino) his parents, a friend, relative or older sibling has taught him.
NO NO NO children are learning read in our county's government schools!!! Yes! I really mean it. Any child who can read in our county has been AFTERschooled!
But....Guess what? Our schools know that penguin's are dying and the polar bears are downing because they can't find an iceberg to lie down on.
In a politically correct society how does a teacher, usually a liberal, explain to a parent that their child is stupid....and obese?