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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think we can blame parents. It’s not fair to expect parents to spend an hour a day tutoring what should be taught in the 7 hours they’re in school daily.

I blame edtech. Get rid of the laptops and force reading from paper books and textbooks. It’s not the same to read on a screen.  [/quote]

There are reports showing on 37% of parents of toddlers read tot heir kids daily with 55% reading to their toddlers 5 days a week. That is the start of the problem. Kids who are read to regularly, preferably daily, are exposed to sounds, letters, blends, and the basic skills needed for reading early on. The majority of those kids will learn to read by K. The kids who had been read to regularly and struggle with reading themselves tend to have learning issues.

But when kids walk into K and don’t know their sounds or basic letters because no one was reading to them regularly as toddlers and pre-K they are behind.

So yeah, not reading in early ES is on the parents. Asking teachers to make up for 5-7 years of not being read to at home at school is ridiculous.

The reason the education gap exists is because people who had parents who had the time and money and did things like read to their kids tend to produce kids who end up with jobs who have the time and money and knowledge to read to their kids. People who did not do well in school or dropped out or never really attended because their parents didn’t care tend to have similar kids and the pattern persists. Asking teachers to fix a problem that is 1) generaational 2) parent based is unreasonable. It tells me you don’t understand how the brain develops or how education works.[/quote]

I’m the OP; while I agree with you on the importance of parents reading to their pre-K children, I can’t place all the blame here on parents alone.

While I reject the entire “privilege” and “lens of equity” nonsense as the unrealistic nonsense it truly is, I acknowledge some kids simply won’t have parents (or a parent) to read to them.  For example:  all the children in orphanages.  But somehow most of those children end up as educated and productive members of society.

The job of our schools is to educate.  Our schools should find ways to make up for deficits such as lack of being read to.

Somehow, schools in 2025 are increasingly failing our children.  That’s the point of my thread: we are facing a crisis of early education .[/quote]

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