(July 2, 2018 at 11:22 am)henryp Wrote: The goal is great. But practically, you go to a really poor school, where the kids are getting beaten, or the parent just views the school as a daycare, or nobody has taught the kid anything heading into kindergarten, including how to sit still for 5 minutes or listen (or all of these things). In those situations, where the teacher isn't just teaching them a read, they are trying to raise them like a parent while at the same time teaching 19 other kids to read. It's just not in the cards no matter how many laws you pass.
I don't know where you live, but if you're working with parents, that means the parents are interested, which already puts them head and shoulders above some lousier schools. And if the school is dealing with a few special needs kids, or a couple disruptive kids, it's no small task, but they can and should accommodate them.
But again, some of these schools, 8 kids out of 20 are in no position to succeed. And they're dragging down the other 12 kids on top of it. 100% literacy is the goal, but there's only so much a teacher can do.
I'd like to see your credible sources for all of the claims that you are making in your post here. Otherwise, I'm just going to consider it that you are just basically asking us to believe you at your word. Given that schools want the federal funding - because well paychecks and pensions and teacher unions are real things - I cannot see where you are getting your facts from.
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