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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd love if educators could weigh in on what's going on here.[/quote]

Education in this country is a big big business.

In  public elementary schools, teachers have to do frequent testing and record the measurements which takes a lot of time. Then there are many schools which impose reading and writing workshops, where in a 90 minute timeframe, teachers do less than 10 minutes of direct teaching. The majority of the time is spent by students doing work on their own or in small groups. This method has proven to work for less than 50% of the students.

So parents opt to send their kids to charters, which is an even bigger money making business and can have very deceptive results.
 
In 90% of the world, students are able to read anything fluently in 4th or 5th grade, if they attend school regularly. 
As for writing, not every country puts that much emphasis on it at the elementary or lower middle school level.

I never understood when Americans told me that they learned a language for several years in middle and high school but have totally forgotten it. Now that I see how foreign language is being taught, I understand it.[/quote]

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