Lawyers sue California because too many children can't read

Just sue the CTA. They are the teachers and likely
have a better stocked piggy bank than the state.

Perhaps rather than suing the state they should consider suing the parents.

nothing will change so long as they view learning as acting white

A classroom runs at the speed of the slowest class member you are willing to accommodate. If you go all the way to the bottom, the rest of the classroom is deprived of education at the level that any one of them could attain. I prefer running a self-paced arrangement so the fast ones can achieve to their limits and provide peer mentoring to the less intellectually inclined.

Phonics was pushed in kindergarten through 2nd grade classes. My spelling skills were spotless as a consequence. Learning Welsh pushes phonics to the limits, to wit: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. For Englsh speakers, the challenge was pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Sight reading won't cut it. Phonics plus understanding the rules of a given language will allow you to grasp multiple languages quickly. It doesn't help as much with tonal languages (Mandarin, Vietnamese, Thai) and omits syllable stress details e.g. Russian or gender inflection as observed in Arabic.

Vowel harmony in Turkish makes pronouncing that language easy. The front/back vowel complexities of Irish and Scots Gaelic are challenging. Running words together as is common in spoken French requires lots of practice.

Well, I see them texting so they probably can read tho I can’t prove it. I’m not a parent.

hukt on fonix werkt fer me

LOL. ROTFL. ICU2.

Texting can be conducted in snippets that have meaning without the form of actual words. Emoticons too. 💩

A classroom runs at the speed of the slowest class member you are willing to accommodate. If you go all the way to the bottom, the rest of the classroom is deprived of education at the level that any one of them could attain. I prefer running a self-paced arrangement so the fast ones can achieve to their limits and provide peer mentoring to the less intellectually inclined.

In a former life I taught Adults with ages from 24 to 64ish in each class. While conducting these intense 7 day classes I would have half the room saying “Slow down, slow down”, while the other half was saying “Speed up”. It was a constant issue and when I asked other Instructors how they handled this, They virtually all said they would teach to the lowest common denominator. I couldn’t do this. I felt the advanced learners paid good money and were entitled to a higher level of education and that would pull the others up. I found a balance that would push and satisfy the high level folks while circling back to pull the others along. It worked for me.

Not all Teachers, or even that many of them, are actually any good at teaching. I was told numerous times by highly educated successful students, Phd’s, Engineers, Professors etc, that I was a natural teacher.

The 3 R’s.....Reading, Riting and Rithmetics.....Okay....Reading, Writing and Arithmetic’s.

The foundation of learning....at least in a carnal aspect if not spiritual.

Point taken. However, the question didn’t specifically
mention anything about reading the ‘King’s English’
and it also did not specifically mention whether or
not their method of communication was learned in school
so with your kind permission I will declare my post
to be nominally passable.

Cheers