This is a good argument for private - teaching reading

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot come to a valid conclusion by comparing two kids. Come on.

Lol this. What a silly post, OP surely you’re not this simpleminded?

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of where they go to school, let’s all just be glad OP’s kids are in school and not being homeschooled by OP given OP’s poor grasp of basic concepts.

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Anonymous wrote:My child in private K went in knowing her ABCs and a handful of sight words and that’s it. She is now sounding out words well with a phonics-based approach and reading fairly well. My neighbor’s kid in public K who comes over a lot had about the same level of preparedness is not able to sound out words and kind of guesses. This child is not SN or anything, it’s quite possible they are naturally more intelligent than my child, but they are simply not being taught the right techniques.

I think many of the people who are happy with public are either putting in a lot of effort themselves at home or else sending to Kumon.

My two kids went into Kindergarten with similar skills to yours. They were in the same private school, and had the same teacher a few years apart. One kid's trajectory was like yours, and one was like your neighbor's. Neither has an LD in reading (I can say this confidently now as both are mine and both are teenagers, you obviously can't know this about a neighbor's 5 year old), reading just clicked for them at different points.

Your smugness here is really alarming and uneducated. It would make me want to be in a different school from you.

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Anonymous wrote:Three words: Primary Day School.

Want your kid to get a solid foundation in math and reading? And if not, you get a full diagnostic on what needs help or assessment or testing for LDs?

Best, most informative report cards and teacher conferences we ever had. We regret not putting our older lifer pk-12 kids there- pivoted there when they could be open for Covid week three of Fall 2020.

Plus the monthly public speaking and performing and great community. We still kiss the school and it’s been a few years.

But we NEVER had to worry about its math or ELa pedagogy; they nailed it. Singapore math and its Phonivisual phonics. Plus with the homework a couple times a week we could see the weekly units and curriculum building.

The Phonovisual Method for Phonics works consistently well, and it has been around for decades. My only regret about Primary Day is that they do no go all the way through 6th grade, because they really know how to teach and they have solid curricula.