30yrs ago, children could read better

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Anonymous wrote:Parents are powerless at getting technology away from our kids. Kindergarteners get stuck on chrome books from day 1. I'm not opposed to technology, but my kids didn't have screen time prior to this (except for family movie nights or ipads on airplanes). I taught all my kids to read at 4, but once they entered K and Lucy Caulkins "guessing" words started, they forgot the phonics I taught them. Their reading regressed in K.

Please someone take away the tech. Bring back whiteboards and get rid of these tech boards the teachers use. Kindergarters now have the huge screen reading to them instead of the teacher! It's really sad. And get rid of personal chrome books for kids.

Yes to all of this. Kids don't "need" to use digital tech regularly in school until middle school, and even then I don't think they need 1-on-1 where they are attached to a Chromebook all day for every class. I don't know why my K son has an iPad given to him at school when I don't even use one as an adult. We restrict screens to basically zero at home, but he gets so much at school.

We were really lucky that our daughter got into a K-8 school that has one set of computers in the basement computer lab and no ipads or other tech whatsoever. After touring multiple schools I learned that this is extremely rare to the point of being almost impossible to find.

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Anonymous wrote:As a child of Asian descent who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I find it kind of funny that all the time the US has spent mocking and villifying East Asians has backfired. I remember the decades of white Americans talking about how Asians aren’t creative, can’t think, drills are bad, memorization is terrible, and kids and people should be free to be and do whatever, (along with lots of stereotypes about nerdy and boring studious Asians in the media, tv shows and films).

As it turns out, kids do need to memorize some facts. There ARE some right and wrong answers! Things are slowly changing and the pendulum is swinging back a bit, but my kid is still suffering the effects of self esteem culture and anti-Asian/pro-ed-tech education. I think it is crazy that my kid’s teachers are saying there is no wrong way to spell (brave spelling!) and there is no such thing as a wrong math answer. 2+2 is 4. We SHOULD be telling a 6 year old that 2+2=5 is wrong. It won’t crush his sense of self worth.

If you have teachers who say there is no such thing as a wrong math answer or wrong spelling then you are either dead wrong in your understanding the process or you’re in a substandard school system.

I don’t believe there’s a school that tells a six year old that 2+2=5 is ok.

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Anonymous wrote:As a child of Asian descent who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I find it kind of funny that all the time the US has spent mocking and villifying East Asians has backfired. I remember the decades of white Americans talking about how Asians aren’t creative, can’t think, drills are bad, memorization is terrible, and kids and people should be free to be and do whatever, (along with lots of stereotypes about nerdy and boring studious Asians in the media, tv shows and films).

As it turns out, kids do need to memorize some facts. There ARE some right and wrong answers! Things are slowly changing and the pendulum is swinging back a bit, but my kid is still suffering the effects of self esteem culture and anti-Asian/pro-ed-tech education. I think it is crazy that my kid’s teachers are saying there is no wrong way to spell (brave spelling!) and there is no such thing as a wrong math answer. 2+2 is 4. We SHOULD be telling a 6 year old that 2+2=5 is wrong. It won’t crush his sense of self worth.

If you have teachers who say there is no such thing as a wrong math answer or wrong spelling then you are either dead wrong in your understanding the process or you’re in a substandard school system.

I don’t believe there’s a school that tells a six year old that 2+2=5 is ok.

We are in a top rated district. People move towns to be able to attend. The math specialist honestly stood up at a town hall and said that there is no such thing as a wrong math answer, and we shouldn't tell our children that the answer is wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a child of Asian descent who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I find it kind of funny that all the time the US has spent mocking and villifying East Asians has backfired. I remember the decades of white Americans talking about how Asians aren’t creative, can’t think, drills are bad, memorization is terrible, and kids and people should be free to be and do whatever, (along with lots of stereotypes about nerdy and boring studious Asians in the media, tv shows and films).

As it turns out, kids do need to memorize some facts. There ARE some right and wrong answers! Things are slowly changing and the pendulum is swinging back a bit, but my kid is still suffering the effects of self esteem culture and anti-Asian/pro-ed-tech education. I think it is crazy that my kid’s teachers are saying there is no wrong way to spell (brave spelling!) and there is no such thing as a wrong math answer. 2+2 is 4. We SHOULD be telling a 6 year old that 2+2=5 is wrong. It won’t crush his sense of self worth.

If you have teachers who say there is no such thing as a wrong math answer or wrong spelling then you are either dead wrong in your understanding the process or you’re in a substandard school system.

I don’t believe there’s a school that tells a six year old that 2+2=5 is ok.

We are in a top rated district. People move towns to be able to attend. The math specialist honestly stood up at a town hall and said that there is no such thing as a wrong math answer, and we shouldn't tell our children that the answer is wrong.

Stanford has a faculty member who is the Lucy Calkins of math. This sounds like her crap.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a child of Asian descent who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I find it kind of funny that all the time the US has spent mocking and villifying East Asians has backfired. I remember the decades of white Americans talking about how Asians aren’t creative, can’t think, drills are bad, memorization is terrible, and kids and people should be free to be and do whatever, (along with lots of stereotypes about nerdy and boring studious Asians in the media, tv shows and films).

As it turns out, kids do need to memorize some facts. There ARE some right and wrong answers! Things are slowly changing and the pendulum is swinging back a bit, but my kid is still suffering the effects of self esteem culture and anti-Asian/pro-ed-tech education. I think it is crazy that my kid’s teachers are saying there is no wrong way to spell (brave spelling!) and there is no such thing as a wrong math answer. 2+2 is 4. We SHOULD be telling a 6 year old that 2+2=5 is wrong. It won’t crush his sense of self worth.

If you have teachers who say there is no such thing as a wrong math answer or wrong spelling then you are either dead wrong in your understanding the process or you’re in a substandard school system.

I don’t believe there’s a school that tells a six year old that 2+2=5 is ok.

We are in a top rated district. People move towns to be able to attend. The math specialist honestly stood up at a town hall and said that there is no such thing as a wrong math answer, and we shouldn't tell our children that the answer is wrong.

If your schools are top rated that means the students score the highest in math, English and science in your state. So it sounds like they’ve been taught math correctly. Maybe there’s more to her story about teaching math in the early years?