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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Public schools are child abuse
All 4 of us kids could do basic reading when we got to first grade.
Knew our colors
Knew our numbers
Knew our ABC’s
BUT THEN-—WE had parents who could read/write/speak English/ do math
Not so sure many ‘parents’ in the USA can do that any more
Are the schools hopelessly flawed???
Another news story recently, talked about the city of Baltimore, and how a number of schools there have exactly zero students in those schools showing they are at grade level.
There will always be some students who are behind, but entire schools are completely behind?
Here in Austin, the students are socially promoted because of “equity.” Accordingly, there are a number of 4th graders who are unable to read.
my kids could read before even starting school!
Idiocracy, not just a goofy comedy
Homeschool your children. Don’t let any child close to a woke, groomer teacher.
that is very sad.
It’s one thing if these 4th graders only could read at a 2nd grade level, for example. But if they are unable to read at all, that’s stunning.
Schools deserve much of the blame, but so do the parents.
I recall being in the lower grades, then going home to review my Spelling and my Arithmetic as they called it then.
We used Flash Cards for multiplication tables. They helped.
The family needs to pitch in a little too if the child needs tutoring.
The public schools have become weapons of class warfare against the children and their parents. All else is mere detail.
I was reading newspapers in fourth grade.
Because 65% of their Teachers since they started school can’t really read?
And they can’t write in cursive. The public school system is way past its prime.
Suckers, send them to public school and then they have to teach it all at home anyhow. Smart, but not too bright, I'd say.
My great aunt (grandmas little sister) lived one block away and was a grade school teacher. I had the alphabet and numbers down before first grade (sugar rock candy is a great motivator for a little boy). First book she gave me was Sherlock Holmes.
I thank the Lord I was educated in the 60s and 70s.
A guy in my church men’s group shared with me last Saturday that when he was a high school math teacher he had kids in his class that couldn’t even speak English......how the heck does that happen???
Fourth graders can’t read because they were kept at home for two years. They missed a crucial window in learning. First and second graders now test better than third and fourth graders.
“I thank the Lord I was educated in the 60s and 70s.”
Ditto, and it was a public school for me but back then it was geared to get you prepped for at least junior college.
You do not have to speak English to do as you are told. And vote Democrat.
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