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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hate to say it to the parents of these seriously undereducated kids at Garfield, but with scores like these:

[b]MATH: 52.29% below basic 42.20% basic 4.59% proficient 0.92% advanced
READING: 42.20% below basic 47.71% basic 9.17% proficient 0.92% advanced[/b]

These kids could stand to skip science and enrichment for a while and learn some reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic.

Too bad not to have science education.  But without the ability to read or add, these kids are going to be cut off from the world for the rest of their lives.

Sorry not to be politically correct, but wasn't Garfield rated THE WORST of all DC elementary schools on DC-CAS recently?  Time to teach to the test a little, and this lady sounds like the one to do it.[/quote]

Try to read this sentence and pretend you've never learned anything about science or social studies:
Penicillin was discovered sixty-three years after the end of the US Civil War.

Learning how to read isn't all about sounding out letters and words. [/quote]

While this is true, illiteracy is a educational and cultural death sentence.[/quote]

Here is what I am saying:  "Illiteracy" does not always mean students cannot decode words.  If often times means that the students can read a text, but have very little comprehension of the text. Many students are able to read aloud every text on the DC-CAS, but are not able to correctly answer the questions about the texts because they have low comprehension.  Comprehension comes from increased background knowledge, like things you learn in SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES.  What's even worse is that low-income students are the most dependent on their schools to get this background knowledge because there are fewer trips to museums on the weekend, or vacations to Europe in the summer, etc.  For most kids past 1st/ 2nd/3rd grade, "reading" is not about learning how to decode, it's about being able to comprehend.[/quote]

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