I have a relative who taught in DC area public schools, and volunteered to teach reading to the hardest cases in the third grade. Who had been “advanced” there on age alone without being able to read.
She had kids who at age 7 and 8 didn’t know how to speak. Leave aside reading, their spoken vocabulary was like 100 words. It is worse than you could possibly imagine. Home life, one strung out parent with mental, substance, legal problems from hell, the works. Teachers ignoring all of it, like maybe it would go away.
Then after doing this to their charges, they spend the next 8-9 years trying to boost their “self esteem” by telling them nothing is their fault, society is to blame.
I have a relative who taught in DC area public schools, and volunteered to teach reading to the hardest cases in the third grade. Who had been “advanced” there on age alone without being able to read.
She had kids who at age 7 and 8 didn’t know how to speak. Leave aside reading, their spoken vocabulary was like 100 words. It is worse than you could possibly imagine. Home life, one strung out parent with mental, substance, legal problems from hell, the works. Teachers ignoring all of it, like maybe it would go away.
Then after doing this to their charges, they spend the next 8-9 years trying to boost their “self esteem” by telling them nothing is their fault, society is to blame.
It’s wacist, you see. Systemically.