LCPS is actually not that good…

[Anonymous]

You’re deciding this on meeting 3 whole kindergarteners ? There’s 88,000 students in LCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re deciding this on meeting 3 whole kindergarteners ? There’s 88,000 students in LCPS.

But these kindergartners are from affluent families, attend different schools, and are all performing poorly. It’s ridiculous that a school system can’t educate *these* kids

[Anonymous]

Well a) they’re 5-6 so all is not lost and b) this is a great lesson for you that coming from affluence doesn’t guarantee you’re a rockstar genius in life

[Anonymous]

I taught in both LCPS and FCPS. LCPS is so much better than Fairfax. In many, many Fairfax schools, half of the kids are below where they are supposed to be in reading.

[Anonymous]

By “these”, do you mean rich white kids. Should the CVC words just float into their brains automatically? Maybe “those” 3 kids have issues (learning, motivation) beyond what you can see. Are their parents concerned?

[Anonymous]

They've taken a new approach, no sight words like before which was probably for the better. They felt the kids weren't actually "reading" those. By the end of 1st grade everyone met the readings levels like before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They've taken a new approach, no sight words like before which was probably for the better. They felt the kids weren't actually "reading" those. By the end of 1st grade everyone met the readings levels like before.

Well this is correct. Sight words don’t help you read. Phonics and phonemes and letter sounds and blends help you read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not the teacher’s fault if kids show up to K not knowing letter names and sounds, and the amount of kids that describes has gone up exponentially since Covid. I know for a fact that the amount of PALS and reading intervention these kids get is insane.

Most kids in affluent elementary schools that went to good preschools are far beyond CVC by the end of K. Your sample size of three says more about the families than the school.

These are affluent kids (HHI $300-500k) who went to expensive, high-quality preschools.

Then I would blame the preschools because my cheap church preschool taught all that before my kids even got to K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They've taken a new approach, no sight words like before which was probably for the better. They felt the kids weren't actually "reading" those. By the end of 1st grade everyone met the readings levels like before.

LCPS teacher. We absolutely teach sight words (now called "snap words") in addition to phonics.

And yes its quite alarming how many students show up to Kindergarden not even knowing their letter names and sounds, but I don't see how we are responsible for what doesn't happen before K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They've taken a new approach, no sight words like before which was probably for the better. They felt the kids weren't actually "reading" those. By the end of 1st grade everyone met the readings levels like before.

LCPS teacher. We absolutely teach sight words (now called "snap words") in addition to phonics.

And yes its quite alarming how many students show up to Kindergarden not even knowing their letter names and sounds, but I don't see how we are responsible for what doesn't happen before K.

Hoo boy, I believe you’re an LCPS teacher based on how you’ve completely misinterpreted my post! I never said the kids didn’t know letter names and sounds before K. You made that up (just like everything else in your classroom)