Thank you!! It's a battle between feeling sad for these kids but then stepping away back into my personal non work life and forgetting about them and feeling bad about not thinking about them. They didn't ever teach us this in school.
That must have been rough on you. Hope you learned and grew a lot from that experience!
My family had to adopt FOUR kids from another relative, the oldest going through first grade for a second time. When asked why the oldest did not know their alphabet, they responded "The school teaches them that". 😐
The kids were like wild animals when we got them, and the oldest one is barely - BARELY starting to learn how to read now in his second year of first grade and the teachers are like "whatever". I was reading Apple computer manuals that were laying around the house at that age (seriously).
One of the kids has trouble with speech - however, the youngest who is not even old enough for pre-K, can read and nearly do math, simply because we got her so young and started helping her.
Also all of them are happily learning about Jesus, the USA and our President, things which they would not have gotten before. 😎
These kids are 80 IQ. Literally can't be taught academically. We need to be honest with ourselves as a nation, and clear a path to employment for this segment of the country. The illegals have taken all the low skill jobs that this sector once occupied. Clear out the illegals, so that this underserved segment has a way to make a living. They are Americans too.
Construction is an area where you can start with no skills and advance quickly if you work hard and want it. My drywall guy charges $100/hour and I gladly pay it. I'm a database analyst and I don't make that much per hour.
Worth pointing out that an IQ of 80 would disqualify you from joining the army. There are people in the army who's job is it to clean toilets, and if you have an IQ of 80 you aren't smart enough to do that.
While they're no longer using a direct IQ test, their current requirements translate to an IQ or roughly 92.
In the army, everybody cleans toilets at some point. It's not a career billet.
The US military is a forced-pace meritocracy with decreasing retention quotas, and there are critical competencies for each step - all the way from throne-polisher to flag rank.
We need to remember that humans are a product of nature, and IQ plots on a curve, with natural outliers at each end. This is the human condition.
Progressive-'science'-ideologues would argue that IQ is racist, and we only need to raise these numerical scores to establish true equality.
Sounds like the minimum wage arguments, doesn't it?
I don't even know. I'm just a speech therapist, I wasn't even taught about how to teach reading and most language skills. 90% of my job is teaching 5th and 6th graders how to form grammatically correct sentences.
Part of it is totally cultural and therefore completely acceptable. We have to know the difference between a language difference and a language disorder and it's actually illegal to "fix" a cultural language difference. The other part is lack of parent education, most of these parents barely have a high school education and more than half my schools parents are non English speaking which is harder for those special ed kiddos who already have a learning or language disorder.
I'm a speech therapist in Compton. I have 1 kid reading at grade level out of my 100 students.
I forgot about Dre getting his doctorate.
Sizzle, BSHU
I taught for LAUSD. It broke my heart. Hang in there!
Thank you!! It's a battle between feeling sad for these kids but then stepping away back into my personal non work life and forgetting about them and feeling bad about not thinking about them. They didn't ever teach us this in school.
That must have been rough on you. Hope you learned and grew a lot from that experience!
It really is a huge part of the parenting.
My family had to adopt FOUR kids from another relative, the oldest going through first grade for a second time. When asked why the oldest did not know their alphabet, they responded "The school teaches them that". 😐
The kids were like wild animals when we got them, and the oldest one is barely - BARELY starting to learn how to read now in his second year of first grade and the teachers are like "whatever". I was reading Apple computer manuals that were laying around the house at that age (seriously).
One of the kids has trouble with speech - however, the youngest who is not even old enough for pre-K, can read and nearly do math, simply because we got her so young and started helping her.
Also all of them are happily learning about Jesus, the USA and our President, things which they would not have gotten before. 😎
OMG. Is there anything that can help?
These kids are 80 IQ. Literally can't be taught academically. We need to be honest with ourselves as a nation, and clear a path to employment for this segment of the country. The illegals have taken all the low skill jobs that this sector once occupied. Clear out the illegals, so that this underserved segment has a way to make a living. They are Americans too.
Construction is an area where you can start with no skills and advance quickly if you work hard and want it. My drywall guy charges $100/hour and I gladly pay it. I'm a database analyst and I don't make that much per hour.
WHY? Why is the IQ so low in Compton? Surely a Bell curve is in play here. Is it really nurture?
It's nature
Worth pointing out that an IQ of 80 would disqualify you from joining the army. There are people in the army who's job is it to clean toilets, and if you have an IQ of 80 you aren't smart enough to do that.
While they're no longer using a direct IQ test, their current requirements translate to an IQ or roughly 92.
In the army, everybody cleans toilets at some point. It's not a career billet.
The US military is a forced-pace meritocracy with decreasing retention quotas, and there are critical competencies for each step - all the way from throne-polisher to flag rank.
We need to remember that humans are a product of nature, and IQ plots on a curve, with natural outliers at each end. This is the human condition.
Progressive-'science'-ideologues would argue that IQ is racist, and we only need to raise these numerical scores to establish true equality.
Sounds like the minimum wage arguments, doesn't it?
I don't even know. I'm just a speech therapist, I wasn't even taught about how to teach reading and most language skills. 90% of my job is teaching 5th and 6th graders how to form grammatically correct sentences.
Part of it is totally cultural and therefore completely acceptable. We have to know the difference between a language difference and a language disorder and it's actually illegal to "fix" a cultural language difference. The other part is lack of parent education, most of these parents barely have a high school education and more than half my schools parents are non English speaking which is harder for those special ed kiddos who already have a learning or language disorder.
Ya TWO parents who take charge of making sure their children get educated.