Posted on 05/03/2007 8:10:43 AM PDT by devane617
How can this possibily happen? See my tag-line...
...now maybe you can see my tag-line...
But they know what a condom is and what a lesbian is.....
Requiring English literacy in a U.S. school is racism, plain and simple.
As long as the Feds and the teachers’ unions control the agenda, it will only get worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lR1KQq2-U
Our world is getting ready for a large servant class pool. Wages will plummet and people will sign up for a form of vassalhood.
It is a little like 19th century England here today. Land is being taken for the pleasure of the few through ecology based land grabs and in our neck of the woods, large foundations and trusts.
That, and the fact that if you want to require English literacy in a public school then you would need to hire teachers who were actually literate.
My girlfriend is a teacher but I know I wouldn’t have the patience around kids to be a good teacher like her.. Its depressing how most of the teachers there treat the children, like they are some sort of burden to be kept in line. A lot of her colleagues have limited knowledge of their own subject and no concept of developmental psychology and no way/desire to relate to the children on a personal level.
The kids rebel because they can sense they are being treated like trash, but she’s gotten some good results out of some of the students other teachers had long given up on. A kid gets labeled as a trouble maker or an idiot and that label will follow them from teacher to teacher, grade to grade, unless someone decides to give them a chance.
The vast majority of teachers AND the vast majority of parents seem to be equally guilty in this fiasco, but neither side wants to take up any sort of responsibility. Its a pretty vicious cycle.
We high school teachers have been plagued with this for a long time.
I have had students who read on a 3rd grade level, yet miraculously made it to high school. Since they could not read, they drop out as soon as they hit 16.
Of course, this reflects badly on me, because I didn’t do enough to teach that kid.
Finally, they are holding them back in the lower years, but like most things, it is a Catch-22.
Say you hold back 20 kids. Next year, 15 of the 20 go on, but now you have 20 more held back and 15 go on. Eventually, you are going to have to have a place to put kids who do not make it, besides the school they attend.
I know of a situation a few years ago here where I teach when they would retain 7th graders. It worked until the 7th graders started driving. This represents about 3 years of retention!
There are two sides to everything.
No, the solution is to shut down the government schools.
Getting a job in the government schools is like giving
CPR to a dead horse. Worse, it exposed our nation’s children to continued Marxist indoctrination.
I am asked by some why I concentrate so much on school issues. The reason is that the very continuation of our nation depends on eliminating government schools. Government schools are actively training up a generation of illiterate and innumerate, and easily led, Marxists.
It **IS** that serious.
The main reason was buried in the article.
Of course their "solution" will be to teach the kids in Spanish. And will we bill their home countries for this benefit. Of course not. And our own kids will continue to suffer because of it.
If I had repeated third grade I would have been older and bigger the rest of the way through school and would have been more successful in playground bullying.
I think it’s better to catch this now, than let things slide. Making sure they can read before they leave the third grade just makes sure they have a better opportunity to progress down the road. If they can’t read, they won’t be able to learn.
.....calling last year’s results a “spike”....
Or some might call it dirt that finally spilled out under the edge of the rug. If you sweep dirt under the rug too many times, eventually it sifts out around the edges.
Our once beautiful nation is being transformed into a polyglot third world cesspool of illiterate trash before our very eyes.
And the corrupt politicians can’t let them in fast enough.
If this was my hometown, they'd just dumb the test down and lower the grade required to pass (really, not joking).
On the other hand... last week I put a “license plate” with my grand son’s name on it on his trike. When I pointed it out, he said “Oh, you put my name on it.” He is 2 1/2 years old.
They had learned letter sounds from watching Sesame Street. Then I would spend 20 minutes per day with them combining letter sounds. We began with "a" -- "ah." "t" -- "tuh." "Ah-tuh." "At!" The first day they learned "at," "as," and "ax." After four weeks of this, I gave them "Hop on Pop." And then they were off and running.
Teaching reading is very easy. Don't listen to the professionals.
FYI, I used the book "Alphaphonics" by Sam Blumenfeld. I highly recommend it.
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