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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

I’m a high school English teacher, and I am dismayed at the lack of literacy I see among my students. The majority don’t read, only the really smart ones do, and texting has dumbed them down so much it’s chilling. The gen pop kids have no idea just how stupid they are. The smart kids are in IB and AP.


13 posted on 10/07/2020 3:59:07 PM PDT by Mermaid Girl
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To: Mermaid Girl

What’s IB?


14 posted on 10/07/2020 4:07:02 PM PDT by libertylover (Election 2020: Make America Great Again or Burn it to the Ground. Choose one.)
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To: Mermaid Girl

You’re a high school teacher, you should be able to make a difference.

If you’d like to write a tell-all so people know what’s going on, i’ll fix it so your identity is hidden and I’ll publish it somewhere.

Bruce Deitrick Price


25 posted on 10/07/2020 7:56:37 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice (education reform)
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To: Mermaid Girl
"I’m a high school English teacher, and I am dismayed at the lack of literacy I see among my students. "

I retired from teaching last summer. I taught high school biology and chemistry. Low literacy was a serious problem, even among AP students. Average students couldn't extract meaning from their textbooks and mostly ignored reading assignments. Kids are being cheated of their future.

27 posted on 10/07/2020 9:23:34 PM PDT by Think free or die
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To: Mermaid Girl

I have a McGuffeys Eclectic Readers Series, Primer to Fourth.

THE primary English books of the late 1800’s into the 1900’s. What a fourth grader was exposed to then versus now...we’ve lost so much.

A1912 eighth grade exam: https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html


29 posted on 10/08/2020 1:53:31 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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