COVID-19 May Leave 12 Million Children Unable to Read

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 didy.homework, though they didn't "check it" ( do it for me). If I got a bad grade onna 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.
J-man said:
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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Jeez Mr. Moneybags, an entire $20? :D
 
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 didy.homework, though they didn't "check it" ( do it for me). If I got a bad grade onna 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.

Jeez Mr. Moneybags, an entire $20? :D
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$20 for each A so for the year he can make a few hundred bucks. Hey, what can I say, that’s big money for S Paulding students. If he’s lucky he can get into UGA...or Bama.
 
I'm just having a hard time dealing this this concept of losing one year of school is causing *10* year old students (5th Grade) to suddenly not be able to read.

I highly suspect that if they can't read at 10, then they couldn't read at 8 either, and if they couldn't read in 3rd grade, then that had nothing to do with Covid.
 
honeybunny said:
I own almost ALL of these books !!!

Most vintage editions from my childhood...

Can recite Fox in Socks (my favorite) flawlessly... :cool:
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I did too. Now they are in my old house, in the attic of my ex-husband. If he has not given them to some other family. He was a democrat and was always willing to give the shirt off the kids and my back... never his own shirt from his back...:banghead:

So, as much as I hate to admit it, the books I had as a kid which included the Dr. Seuss collection, and all the others the kids were given, that the kids and I read over and over, may or may not be in the attic anymore. Books I had hoped to read to my own grandchildren.

My kids say they will go back and get them. :ninja: They both commented on the Seuss books we had, when this "ban Seuss" "woke" thing happened. Their father already has a poor relationship with them, if he has given those books away, they may never repair it. :fingerwag:
 
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