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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now go figure out what states those kids are in.  I bet you all of the majoritiy are in RED STATES.  Because when you consistently defund education over decades in favor of fighting to ensure the 0.6 transgender kids in your state can't play soccer, you end up with 4th graders who can't read.[/quote]

LCPS is in a blue state. My students in 9 and 10 grades have OBNOXIOUS spelling errors. Their punctuation is nonexistent.

What’s the excuse?[/quote]

Are you talking about your students?  It’s your job to continue with grammar, punctuation and spelling.  Their spelling and grammar aren’t flawless just because they are in 9th grade.  [/quote]

DP and in a different district.  It’s true.  My teen’s 10th grade honors English class syllabus specifically stated students  are required to use capitalization and punctuation in all sentences for written or typed papers.  WTF. What is going on in schools? [/quote]

I don’t teach English… but I jump into different course classrooms. It’s beyond ridiculous what I see. The other day, being the last day of the quarter, no work was done and no new material was taught.

Kids resorted to playing the hangman since phones are banned.

This 9th grader spelled EGAL for EAGLE (they were doing animals). Another one that made me truly wonder what the actual facc is happening in the so-called richest county of the USA is when they were doing countries, and in proving hints a kid goes “yeah, this one is in Europe around the Italy area”

He was referencing a northern African country. I swear I do NOT want my kids to be this ignorant. [/quote]

Spelling phonetically usually is related to a learning disability.    I posted earlier about these excellent programs that National Geographic produces that our middle school uses to identify each country, continent and type of government.   Maybe the schools can try a new approach if the kids are doing so badly that they aren’t clear on continents by high school although to be fair that area is squishy with three continents close together.  [/quote]

Yes.  The schools needs to use the approach called, “Kids need to write words and read books.” Not another learning app.  [/quote]

Kids have to read complete books, I don’t know what school systems are not buying books anymore.    It’s hard to believe.

I wrote about the National Geographic and their amazing geography programs.    These are not apps.  They don’t use apps.   [/quote]

Many, many schools kids are not reading full books, and of the ones that are, it’s very few and they are below grade level and or poor quality graphic novels. Kids need to physically write words and read a lot of books.  There is no learning program that can take the place of this.  Kids aren’t doing this in schools anymore.  The kid above is phonetically spelling because he has not had adequate exposure to literature and enough practice in writing.  This is what happens. And add on top of that, schools don’t specifically teach grammar and spelling either anymore.  Now we have a bunch of kids that cannot spell, write, or read beyond basics.  It isn’t a learning disability- it’s an utter failure from education system. [/quote]

People keep posting about how many schools don’t read books anymore but I’ve never heard of a specific county or town that does this. 
My 7th grader this year has read Of Mice and Men, The Giver and right now The Outsiders.

As for phonetic spelling, students with dyslexia can have difficulty with spelling.  Other difficulties have the student seeing the word spelled phonetically as correct. Of course some people are just bad spellers because they don’t put the effort in.  And the previous poster said they do very little to nothing with struggling kids which is alarming.

These learning programs are not supposed to take the place of the basics.  They only enhance what they are learning.  And there is an assumption that the students are at where they should be with regard to reading and writing.  [/quote]

What public school district is this? [/quote]

It’s outside of Boston.

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