[madfly]

American Homeshcoolers, carry on!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

News starting to sink in: Many students won't pass*** "When you show the parents what their children are capable of reading and comprehending and that the students are reading that much below grade level, their eyes really open to see that their children need some assistance," Jones said. Principals said many parents tell them to do what's best for their children. Others are furious, even desperate. They are threatening to transfer their children to private or charter schools. Some have asked if they could enroll their children in private tutoring centers to bring them up to speed.***

[Aquinasfan]

I told her to get my Alpha-Phonics program and teach her child to read at home.

I used his $20 workbook to teach my two girls at age 4-1/2 how to read in twenty, half-hour sessions over the course of a month. A total of ten hours.

He's right on the money with this whole language thing. Dewey invented the approach because he wanted to prevent children from learning independently. His dream for a "level," democratic society meant that children were to be "socialized" at an early age, and part of that socialization meant putting kids in teams, working together trying to guess the meaning of words.

Sam's the man!