COVID-19 May Leave 12 Million Children Unable to Read

Fire all of them communist teachers and home-school everyone,,, then none of them will be literate but at least they won't grow up to be commies!!!
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Paxilpapa said:
Fire all of them communist teachers and home-school everyone,,, then none of them will be literate but at least they won't grow up to be commies!!!
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That's where you're wrong. How do you think commies got so powerful so fast? Through ignorance of illiterate masses!
When those 12 mil kids grow up, Gov't will be happy to step up and "help" by reading what's what to them. You just don't worry your silly little head there and put an "X" right here for your signature and vote.
 
Well that tells you how wrong I was over it. I was going to say that I’m sure each one of those kids coincidentally would be minority and a big fat check would solve all their problems.
 
NotSoSecret Russian Agent said:
That's where you're wrong. How do you think commies got so powerful so fast? Through ignorance of illiterate masses!
When those 12 mil kids grow up, Gov't will be happy to step up and "help" by reading what's what to them. You just don't worry your silly little head there and put an "X" right here for your signature and vote.
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Most home-schooled kids are generally more advanced and more self starting than their government educated counter parts and they generally turn out to have a conservative tilt, it also seems to hold true for private schools vs government schools... funny how that works!
 
Paxilpapa said:
Most home-schooled kids are generally more advanced and more self starting than their government educated counter parts and they generally turn out to have a conservative tilt, it also seems to hold true for private schools vs government schools... funny how that works!
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You're talking those home-schooled kids whose parents have opted out to teach them at home and they do dedicate a lot of time and energy to it. Not only do they study a greater variety of subjects without teaching the kids how to take tests but they also make sure they have a much broader perspective and practical, useful skills.

The majority of 12 million that will be illiterate fall under the category of having their parents either work constantly, have no skills themselves to teach at home, or even the equipment to do so. This means no homework being checked, no supervision of what classes they are actually present for online, no following through, no access to study material, and no activities or excursions with other home-schooled kids to libraries, museums, park, no practical life skills lessons, etc etc. Just a bunch of unsupervised at most time kids not getting any kind of education.
 
NotSoSecret Russian Agent said:
You're talking those home-schooled kids whose parents have opted out to teach them at home and they do dedicate a lot of time and energy to it. Not only do they study a greater variety of subjects without teaching the kids how to take tests but they also make sure they have a much broader perspective and practical, useful skills.

The majority of 12 million that will be illiterate fall under the category of having their parents either work constantly, have no skills themselves to teach at home, or even the equipment to do so. This means no homework being checked, no supervision of what classes they are actually present for online, no following through, no access to study material, and no activities or excursions with other home-schooled kids to libraries, museums, park, no practical life skills lessons, etc etc. Just a bunch of unsupervised at most time kids not getting any kind of education.
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Not long ago, there was a news story about how upset a woman was because her son is in the 12th grade and will not graduate. He can't read very well either. She claimed she had no idea he had been failing so many classes each year in high school. It's obvious she wasn't concerned about his education, as she did nothing to monitor it.
 
Boss 302 said:
Not long ago, there was a news story about how upset a woman was because her son is in the 12th grade and will not graduate. He can't read very well either. She claimed she had no idea he had been failing so many classes each year in high school. It's obvious she wasn't concerned about his education, as she did nothing to monitor it.
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I remember that one. Which goes to show how little those parents of 12 million kids have paid attention before virtual schooling and how much less they're doing it even now.

I did forget to mention the quality of virtue schooling with teachers playing rap songs during class "to make a point in a lesson" as well. Or not teaching period.
 
Sadly, most parents are all too willing to just dump their child on the school system to educate them.

Nope, school is only a small part of a child's education. Education is 24 hours a day, and the parents need to actually be the primary educators. School is only a few hours a day where we send them for that portion of it, and we should closely monitor what they are being taught there.
 
Guard Dad said:
Sadly, most parents are all too willing to just dump their child on the school system to educate babysit them.

Nope, school is only a small part of a child's education. Education is 24 hours a day, and the parents need to actually be the primary educators. School is only a few hours a day where we send them for that portion of it, and we should closely monitor what they are being taught there.
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Fixed it for you.
 
I learned to read from rhyming works from Hop on Pop, The Cat in The Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Fox in Socks etc... I was reading before kindergarten ... of course kindergarten had, See Jane run, run Spot run... and See Dick fly a plane, or something like that.

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Dick and Jane storylines a family with two children, a dog named Spot, and a cat named Puff...

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I think Dr. Seuss is the reason I could read though.... Let's give all 12 million kids a library of Dr Seuss Beginner I Can Read It All By Myself Bright & Early BOOKS". Libs heads may explode, but their kids will be able to read...

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This is tragic.

Our literacy rates among poor children (esp. inner city) has been criminal for a long time...

I've often dreamed about starting a non profit that focused on early intervention literacy.
Driving bookmobiles into poor neighborhoods and holding early reader classes for toddlers and parents in parks...
Handing out sackfuls of books to children !!!

Literacy is the surest way to break the cycle of poverty and improve society... the very key to knowledge.

I grew up in poverty and my Mother taught me to read the newspaper by 4 years old...
I'm still a voracious reader and a great hoarder of books. I've been reading to the Kiddo since her first day home,
and now she punches 3 grade levels above her weight. (her math scores are another story...) :confused:

This is an issue that seems to fall by the wayside, these children are being discarded.

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Far West said:
I learned to read from rhyming works from Hop on Pop, The Cat in The Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Fox in Socks etc... I was reading before kindergarten ... of course kindergarten had, See Jane run, run Spot run... and See Dick fly a plane, or something like that.

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Dick and Jane storylines a family with two children, a dog named Spot, and a cat named Puff...

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I think Dr. Seuss is the reason I could read though.... Let's give all 12 million kids a library of Dr Seuss Beginner I Can Read It All By Myself Bright & Early BOOKS". Libs heads may explode, but their kids will be able to read...

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I own almost ALL of these books !!!

Most vintage editions from my childhhod...

Can recite Fox in Socks (my favorite) flawlessly... :cool:
 
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Guard Dad said:
Sadly, most parents are all too willing to just dump their child on the school system to educate them.

Nope, school is only a small part of a child's education. Education is 24 hours a day, and the parents need to actually be the primary educators. School is only a few hours a day where we send them for that portion of it, and we should closely monitor what they are being taught there.
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My parents "dumped" me, after about second grade, but they gave me a foundation for learning and I did well in school. They made sure I did my homework, though they didn't "check it" ( do it for me). If I got a bad grade on a homework assignment, so be it. They expected all A's in advanced STEM.classes, and at least B's in the other classes.

A lot of parents today don't even read report cards or know when kids have homework.
 
lotstodo said:
My parents "dumped" me, after about second grade, but they gave me a foundation for learning and I did well in school. They made sure I did my homework, though they didn't "check it" ( do it for me). If I got a bad grade on a homework assignment, so be it. They expected all A's in advanced STEM.classes, and at least B's in the other classes.

A lot of parents today don't even read report cards or know when kids have homework.
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My mother and especially my father were very involved in our education. I remember a period of time when I didn't bring my homework home to do it. My grades went down from the grading period before. Teachers wrote notes on the report card that I was not doing my homework. That entire next grading period, my father made me have each of my teachers write on a sheet of paper if I had homework or not and if I did what was it? That was embarrassing. I wasn't failing; I was getting C's when I could have been getting A's.
 
I don’t mess around with our grandson, I flat out pay him for good grades. I told him to consider it his paycheck for working, that he is currently employed as a high school student. He gets $20 for each A, $10 for each B, $0 for each C (being average doesn’t get you anything), he pays me $10 for each D and he pays me $20 for each F. He has made all A’s and B’s, mostly A’s, since middle school.
 
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