Posted on 02/13/2023 12:40:25 PM PST by george76
230,000 children who failed to show up for class when public schools reopened after the pandemic. It’s a tragedy without parallel in American history as many of the no-shows are very young — K through 3rd grade. Critical skills learned in early education were not taught to these kids, who are now hopelessly behind.
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Consider the fact that 65% of American fourth-grade students can barely read. This is a result of a radical shift to a new way of teaching children how to read.
What was wrong with the old way? Well, it was old.
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What exactly are these teachers doing to children?
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After a couple of decades of teaching reading this way with abysmal results, you’d think even a leftist would throw in the towel and go back to what worked before. Not on your life. That would mean the critics who have been railing against this travesty of education were right. And, as we know, leftists would rather blow up the country than admit anything they do causes more harm than good.
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Grooming them politically and sexually. It's safer for the groomers if the kiddies can't read or write.
>>My teachers were comic books.<<
I learned to read from comics too.
To get a kid to read, give him something he LIKES to read. The Harry Potter books were popular with my kids, and really helped them get enthused about reading.
I’ll bet they know their rap lyrics,
And Disney songs, by heart
Agree,
I played all the Super Mario episodes with our son. It never hurt him, he graduated Magna Cum Laude at Auburn. He is still very into multi player games.
My Dad took me out with him almost every weekend to do serious back breaking work. But I learned how to use all the tools. Helped a lot when I bought our first house. Funny, I never got into gaming myself. I did take lots of electronic things apart.
Now days the “CALL OF THE WILD” would be much to brutal and violent for our young minds of mush, and the “RED BADGE OF COURAGE” would be much to mentally anguishing and patriotic for todays hip and woke youth!
I know someone that recently substituted in a 3rd grade class. The teacher left several tests for the kids to take. For every one of them, the sub had to read each question to the class and read all the answers. IOW most of them could not read the tests so had to be read to.
How does a kid learn to read if they are not expected to read? In 3rd grade? These are the kids that lost a year to Covid - they should be sent back to kindergarten to start over, but won’t be.
My wife and I read to our kids before they could even sit up by themselves, prop’em up in your lap and read to them from picture books, novels, newspapers, etc.
The picture books were easy, they were kind of self explanatory; the novels and newspapers were more difficult because you had to slow down your reading speed so they could follow your finger under every word.
Then explain what it all meant.
Both kids were reading at the college level by the fifth grade, even had some teachers express concern about what they chose to read.
Had to tell the teachers to butt out, my kids were allowed to read anything they wanted to at any time they felt like it!
They’re being taught too early.
5 is too young for most to be forced to read if they aren’t getting it.
Many times It can cause all sorts of problems when kids read early.
But it’s actually more ideal for kids to learn to read about age 7 in average.
“See Dick, see Dick run”.
“See Jane, see Jane trip Dick”.
“See Spot, see Spot rip Dicks throat out”
“See Jane walk away giggling”.
Yeah, I remember those boring primers from back in the early 50”s.
“They’re being taught too early. 5 is too young for most to be forced to read if they aren’t getting it.”
We were reading before we were five. We weren’t forced to read; we wanted to.
Same with my kids, my Wife and I taught them to read even before they could sit up by themselves, read outloud with them in our laps.
Figured out later that they were nosey little monsters and would read anything, including the soup can labels.
You learn a lot about food processing and weird chemicals trying to explain what all those odd words mean.
“All 4 of us kids could do basic reading when we got to first grade.”
That’s great, but the school system *should* be able to teach reading and writing IF the parents do not. But the government school system is a disaster. When conservatives and Christians (many of whom still support that system in spite of all the damage done) finally wake up and get their heads out of their rear ends, it may change. But I doubt it. Too late.
How can a teacher keep a reading class of 25 on the same page when four students have dyslexia, three students are learning English as a second language, two others read three grade levels ahead, and the rest have widely disparate interests and degrees of enthusiasm about reading?
Because parents permit it.
Languages: |
Japanese |
Literacy: |
definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2002) |
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): |
total: 15 years male: 15 years female: 15 years (2008) |
Education expenditures: |
3.7% of GDP (2007) country comparison to the world: 126 |
Japan's education system played a central part in enabling the country to meet the challenges presented by the need to quickly absorb Western ideas, science and technology, and it was also a key part in Japan's recovery and rapid economic growth in the decades following the end of World War II.
If we wait 'until they get it' ...
1/100th of a dollar
a quarter is 25 percent of a dollar.
1/4 of a dollar is a quarter.
1/4 of ANYTHING is a quarter, too.
Take any fraction 1/4, 3/10, 31/16 and multiply the lower number by what ever it takes to get a result of 100 and you've created a percentage when you also multiply the top number by it
1/4 times 25/25 = 25/100 or 25%.
3/10 times 10/10 = 30/100 or 30%
31/16 times 6.25/6.25 = 1.9375/100 or 193.75%
Percentage is merely a specialized fraction where the lower number is 100.
https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/percents/converting-percentages-decimals-and-fractions/1/
1/100th of a dollar
a quarter is 25 percent of a dollar.
1/4 of a dollar is a quarter.
1/4 of ANYTING is a quarter, too.
Take any fraction 1/4, 3/10, 31/16 and multiply the lower number by what ever it takes to get a result of 100 and you've created a percentage when you also multiply the top number by it
1/4 times 25/25 = 25/100 or 25%.
3/10 times 10/10 = 30/100 or 30%
31/16 times 6.25/6.25 = 1.9375/100 or 193.75%
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