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!
Homeschool your children. Don’t let any child close to a woke, groomer teacher.
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.
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.
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 can’t see how anyone would believe that teaching a child to read by asking them to “think of the word that fits best or look at the picture” would ever work. Teaching reading in that manner would mean that when a child encounters a new word, and there is no accompanying picture, they have no way to determine the sound of the word.
Thankfully, my grandchildren are home-schooled and have never had to put up with such foolishness. Between sight reading and common core math we have raised a generation of idiots!
In 1950, the US population was around 150 million people, 89% white.
In 2023, the US population is close to 340 million people, 61% white.
Extrapolate…
I’m old. I got into trouble for reading in class in the 4th grade. Our teacher, Mrs. Avery, had warned me several times over the past couple of weeks to stop reading. I was reading a book about Sitting Bull and she had enough. The one male teacher in our elementary school always paddled the male students, but he was busy and I escaped unscathed.
On a side note I also had Mrs. Avery in the 2nd grade. She was of Irish descent and hated the British with a white hot passion. She had the class singing lyrics from ‘The Wearing of The Green’ (’they’re hanging men and women now for the wearing of the Green’).
Good times. I learned as much from reading on my own as I did in class, and I hated the British, at least for a year or two.
I liked watching programs like Captain Kangaroo and The Electric Company that focused a good deal on reading and vocabulary. By the time I was in fourth grade (1979), I read books about the history of hockey and followed the sports pages that good deal.
Stop bringing in all the illegal children pushe over our border - who pull every classroom down.
At least I know I have a 5th grade reading level or better..because I’m able to read this article.
“What exactly are these teachers doing to children”?
They are indoctrinating them that America is a bad Nation. Indoctrinating them to the ways America is a bad Country. Instructing them in the ways they can pleasure themselves.
Instructing them how to hate their parents. And how to do other things inspired by Satan. Teaching them how to get in touch with their inner selves.Informing them how to hate America. Teaching White Students why they should hate themselves because they are White.
What did you think they were doing? Teaching the three Rs? Teaching them how to be good productive productive Citizens?
Mark