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[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]

Starting at what age? Mine is in 3rd and has never read an entire book as a class. He's read whole books at home.[/quote]

In first grade I think they all read different books according to their ability.

My second oldest read James and the Giant Peach with his class in 2nd grade.  My middle child is what they call a “reluctant reader” but managed to blend in the middle.  My youngest child was home with Covid isolation in pieces of 2nd and 3rd grades and it was chaos.  She didn’t have books until 4th grade.   [/quote]

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