Just in case you were wondering about how well our public education system’s working, there’s a report out by Emily Hanford, American Public Media, stating that some 65 percent of our fourth-graders “can’t really read” (https://www.thefp.com/p/why-65-percent-of-fourth-graders).
No, it’s not due to COVID Etc. It’s due to trendy teaching methods that just don’t work–and, I might add, to enormous amounts of classroom time wasted on Far Left crapola.
They can’t read, but I’ll bet they can rattle off a couple dozen “genders” if given half a chance.
Parents! Are you absolutely, positively sure you can’t do better than this? You can’t do better than the teachers’ colleges and teachers’ unions?
Shame on you, if it’s so. Time to homeschool!
Not surprising. It strikes me that many of the youngest adults are I’ll equipped to deal with the real world, including marginal literacy, and an attention span that is frighteningly short.
A parent doesn’t have to be proficient or an expert in English to teach that subject. All they need is an hour or so each day, that, plus a good phonics program. There are a number of good courses. To teach my son, I used Jeanie Eller’s “Action Reading Fast Track,” which was based on George O. Curetion’s classic phonics teaching method.
Even if the parent is not competent in English, by using a phonics program, they will learn right along with their child. Jeanie Eller’s phonics program really works. It worked for my son, and in 1994, Jeanie taught a group of illiterate adults to read in two weeks for the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Homeschooling resources keep getting better and more affordable as public schooling continues to deteriorate.
2 years ago I saw my grandchild’s math homework paper when she was in a public school & in 2nd grade in Oak Park, IL (a suburb of Chicago). She was required to show the steps of how she got the answer. I couldn’t figure out her 2nd grade homework because it was “new” math that is totally crazy! It’s supposedly to help the kids learn geometry easier. What average child needs to learn geometry in 2nd grade? It’s due to Common Core teaching garbage!
That’s what happens when government gets involved in education. Common Core is only one of many such atrocities.