You’d think kids would have opened a few books here and there without having to go to school. I guess Xbox won that battle.
Who needs to be able to read? We all have cell phones that talk to us now. They read for us. sarc/
So they could wear masks and the teachers can Virtue Soapbox.
https://projecttransformation.org/ is an organization that directly addresses this issue.
According to reading teachers, students in 2nd and 3rd grades are basically starting at zero. Online school was useless. Future learning for these groups will be severely impacted.
I blame the parents.
Reading skill
If it doesn’t appear on the screen, it doesn’t exist. books are archaic
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Oh, wow, the BeijingBiden apologists have finally nailed another advantage to trying to kill the middle class via lockdowns — cover for not having taught kiddies to read. Period.
so they only look at pictures on their phones/computers/tablets ?
My grandniece who is 5 works a tablet like it’s part of her body , ask her something and she’ll have an answer is 2 seconds , LOL
Like public schools were doing such a bang-up job BEFORE the pandemic.
I guess they’re spending to much time on transsexual story time...maybe instead of learning about diversity and inclusion, they should be more aware of “reading, writing and arithmetic”.
Uneducated people make better democrat voters.
And what about American schools math and English proficiency??? Aren’t we approaching third-world levels of education??
Would this have anything to do with the Asian community being persecuted by the black community???