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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So?
It's must another font.
Bump.
Taught my 4 kids to read when they were three and four years old. I used phonics, of course. I had realized that what was being taught in school was a slicked version of hieroglyphics and hopeless. The reading revolution when literacy became a property of larger populations than the rulers was the invention of the alphabet with letters that have particular sounds. So we went back to hieroglyphics to make reading again a property of the elite.
Expanding a bit
“Teachers I spoke with complained that the math test—a common stumbling block—required knowledge far above the level an elementary teacher needs. The test asked them to do things like calculate the square root of a fraction without using a calculator, but on the job they’re expected to teach place value and fractions. And, some say, their training programs didn’t prepare them either for the test or what they need to teach. Their required courses focused on methods of teaching math rather than ensuring a thorough understanding of elementary-level concepts.”
You have teachers who do not know what their students are expected to know. Even at the Elementary school level. You have teachers who can’t answer who won the American Civil War, or who we won independence from. The push for “diversity” has caused us to lower our standards to unacceptable levels.
If you think THAT is bad, you should try to master Reformed Egyptian!!
The "Caractors" are the only tangible evidence in existence related to Smith's story.
It only works because the parents aren't paying attention. Most people just want a new iThing to look at and someone to gossip about.
There are fonts, some to honor and some to dishonor.
Inner cities, definitely. That’s where incompetent teachers go to collect a paycheck ‘til they can collect a pension, and in the interim stay out of the good suburban public schools where their incompetence will attract attention. De facto racism.
It’s no thanks to public schools that I learned to read. My teachers were comic books.
Primers! I’ll bet I was the last generation to use primers.
Old figure in 2016:
According to a recent study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, 32 million of American adults are illiterate, 21 percent read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates are functionally illiterate, which means they can’t read well enough to manage daily living and perform tasks required ...Sep 13, 2016
And the lowest literacy in the United States?
California.
Demographics says 65% of American 4th graders are Hispanic or black.
Probably won’t bother most of the parents because their percentage is lower than that.
I mostly agree with both your points. From my perspective, when I was little, my mom played an old final fantasy on super Nintendo. I wanted to play too and it gave me the motivation to start learning letters and sounding out simple words before kindergarten, since she took the time to teach me. My mom had me reading and adding before K and my dad had me changing oil filters and (trying to) change tires at 8. Lug nuts are hard for a little kid haha
I couldn’t imagine trying to play fallout or elder scrolls or basically anything else without the capability to read though.
Have you heard about Ontario in Canada? HS Student was put on suspension for arguing there are 2 genders. He cannot return until he recants.
According to Scout, she learned how to read by sitting in Atticus’s lap while he read in the evenings. She would follow his finger as it moved while she listened to him read She claims that at some point, “the lines above Atticus’s finger separated into words”
How do they get to Instagram without typing it? How do they download the app without reading “Instagram?”
Somewhat related, I worked with a guy in his 40s who had zero understanding of percentages. He didn’t know 1% from %100 or his ass from a hot rock. His phone would randomly shut off, and I saw his battery was dead. I plugged it in and it said 1%. I told him so and he asked me what that meant. After I got over the immense ignorance, I did my best to explain the concept of percentages but it’s like explaining detailed aeronautics to a caveman, so you may have a point.
I figure the lesbian Randy Weingarten and her minions must be really pleased with the current situation.
I read somewhere that 50% of parents of school kids in Baltimore didn’t have a single book in the house.
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