Posted on 07/28/2018 5:06:38 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
One church man. Try us.
One church man. Try us.
Learning to spell is the key! Once you master most of the rules, and a few of the exceptions, reading becomes much easier, and more fun.
We taught our kids to sound out words as soon as they were capable of learning. They were able to read well by the time they were 5.
Every parent should teach their children phonics and addition / subtraction / multiplication facts. Because many of the schools do not.
I sent my son to private school, where he actually learned things. He did well. Last week, he was sworn in, as a USAF Officer. Next stop, USAF pilot training. 😁👍
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Thanks Bruce, appreciate the compliment. My point about phonics was based on my own experience, where I taught it exclusively to my kids and had them reading by 4 years old, and reading proficiently and quickly at 5 years old (during that year, I only helped with understanding punctuation, something I purposely ignored at the start...but no help with reading, they didn’t need it).
I made the political analogy because I hear it in politics and it sickens me. Just because the other side is screaming for something does not mean the idea has merit, any merit. Often (or usually) with the Left, it’s just plain stupid, and trying to meet them on some middle ground only shows weakness...before they roll over us. Reminds me of gay marriage - if a person is against it, then they have to be against civil unions, or they’ve already moved the goal posts and it’s only a matter of time before they completely lose, which is what happened there.
Back to education - Bilingual Education winds up being Spanish Language only. Blending the use of calculators while learning times tables means times tables, even if learned (which is unlikely), will be forgotten in a matter of weeks.
It goes on and on...I could get into the $15 minimum wage. Nothing to compromise on that, just nuke it.
Not if they have a learning disability. 2 of my kids caught on easily, and the brain injured one took work.
Very true.
Fortunately, I enjoy a good fight, dislike unions, and am an educator myself with a Ph.D. in Economics. We are slowly peeling back this onion and starting to see academic improvements, and much less budgetary waste. I encourage everyone to run for local School Board, and help your community to weed out bad teachers and administrators, privatize services where possible, and demand improvements in test scores and performance. It is very time consuming, however, so best done if you are retired or semi-retired and can devote the time necessary. Politically, 75% of local taxes here in NH go to operating the schools -- not the town government. So the schools are where the money's at, it's important to get involved and run for that reason, too. You don't have to be in education to run for School Board. Business people have a stake in educating young people well, and if you are in construction trades or real estate or accounting you'd be an invaluable school board member too since so much of what we do concerns budgeting, facilities improvements, etc.
So, we spent centuries being able to teach kids to read properly, and then some knuckle head named John Dewey comes along. And with the intent of socializing American school children away from American ideals, he worked to trip up the way children read. Because if he could keep children from reading properly they would be unable to read their Founding documents and they would lose their hard fought inheritance. It was all done by design.
I agree it was done intentionally. An illiterate population is much easier to control. Add The Bible to the list of what they didn’t want people to read.
My daughter is diagnosed with OCD. She’ll be starting her third year in college - we didn’t think she’d make it her first semester, but she’s doing okay - but struggles.
She has a real hard time reading some of the research papers she is assigned.
“Well honey - just skip the words you don’t understand and by the time you’re done with the sentence or the paragraph you’ll have the gist of it.”
“Dad - you don’t understand. I have to know EVERY SINGLE WORD - I can’t just “skip it”! So she plows through the readings with the dictionary app running. I feel sad for her - but she is bright, and a hard worker.
Suggestion: McGuffery Readers circa 1880's. Available on the web, having six readers and a primer.
From the Preface:
"...The plan of the book enables the teacher to pursue the Phonic Method, the Word Method, the Alphabet Method, or any combination of these methods. ..."
I humbly request you consider volunteering for a literacy program to help adults read. There are a ton of them out there. I believe illiteracy is 100% from the devil as he knows if you can’t read, you can’t read the Bible. And you certainly can’t be capable of taking care of yourself, you’re prone to depending on the gov’t.
I was a voracious reader as a kid and I always looked forward to the Readers Digest and their word games.....
I think I see the problem here and I note where you are located so I better understand the affliction. I will say that I believe you are doing the Lord's work in your elected position. While we are not generally so afflicted out here in the hinterlands and among the deplorables, it's rare that a board or individual member really gets up on their hind legs about how the educrats are flim-flamming the public.
actually, the kid won’t read.
it is easier to get attention by not reading than it is to get attention by reading
If your kid can’t read he has a learning disability. Get him an IEP and make the school provide special education. If you live in a city, the special ed classes are filled with people who are just stupid. Move to a suburb where rich kids go to school and they will have to provide you free special ed.
She’s learning far more valuable lessons that way than the material she’s studying.
She will go far in life.
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