@mushroom_soup Good read. Department of Education hard at work stupefying children because they don't like that some britbong in the 19th century got reading education right.
@nobullyplz @mushroom_soup while phonics is the way to go, one has to wonder about how much of the decline in reading ability is due the the country becoming browner and lower IQ
@billiam @nobullyplz @mushroom_soup it turns out that importing thousands of people that have never seen a stove has an effect on test scores
@sun Teaching kids to just guess what a word they don't know is is insane. Thank God I grew up with a mom who encouraged me to read so I learned early and was always an advanced reader
Whenever we're sitting around discussing teaching the latest political thing, I almost always now go in to look at how many schools failed to produce one (1) student reading at grade level at graduation.
I think it's fitting that people who shouldn't have made it to the next grade because they don't yet have the prerequisite skills are being taught by people who think they should be allowed to teach all these other materials when they aren't yet successfully teaching the prerequisite skills.
I think it's fitting that people who shouldn't have made it to the next grade because they don't yet have the prerequisite skills are being taught by people who think they should be allowed to teach all these other materials when they aren't yet successfully teaching the prerequisite skills.
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@sj_zero @mushroom_soup @nobullyplz @billiam no child left behind legislation was actually a backdoor way to fire unionized teachers by closing the entire school.
Reading the article, it talks about the "tricks" to read, and I think about reading Beowulf where "Beowulf spake, bairn of Ecgtheow", "Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings"
Like... You better be able to sound it out because there's no tricks here, you've never seen these words...
Like... You better be able to sound it out because there's no tricks here, you've never seen these words...
@sun @mushroom_soup @nobullyplz @billiam
It does sound like a crappy way of learning to read. Two questions pop up in my head though:
1. Do those children ever stand a chance of becoming computer programmers? Not with that approach to reading.
2. I think the system is crappy, but then how is that different from learning to read in languages like Japanese? The Japanese are pretty smart.