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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are correct OP. Some of the snarky, shaming voices are starting to quiet as the problem is accelerating. All of my friends who were public school teachers have now left within the last 5 years, because of the obvious problems you cite.  Unless you are in a high income, segregated neighborhood, public schools are over.[/quote]

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The FARMs rate has been trending up at almost every public school in the DC metro area. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find a school under 20%. Fairfax county has gone from 10% in 1991 to 30% FARMs today. MOCO went from 13% to 41% in the same time period. Prince William county went from 10% to 43%. Prince George’s county went from 20% to 65%. Loudoun County went from 7%-23%. There is going to be a massive exodus of UMC, families to privates over the next decade because the number of places where school have higher manageable levels of economically deprived students is growing exponentially. Schools teach to the lowest common denominator and  kids in your class don’t know how to read by the time they start kindergarten, kids with involved parents that do won’t learn anything for a couple years. [/quote]

I kinda doubt most kids of any socioeconomic background can read when they start K.  Where did you get that idea from?[/quote]

I was able to read books in preschool and my spouse was reading when they were 3 years old. It’s absurd to me that a kid that is 5 or 6 is not able to read when they start kindergarten. Only kids that are stupid or have uninvolved parents don’t know how to read by this age. [/quote]

It's not developmentally appropriate to sit your kid down and teach them to read that young.  If they pick stuff up at storytime, fine, but kids are supposed to be playing outside and pretending at this age.

Only stupid parents don't know this.[/quote]

When a kid is pestering you daily to teach them to read, it's time to teach them to read.  If average children aren't ready early that's fine, and if your own child wasn't ready to learn his letters until 7 that's fine, they won't be crippled in life because they didn't start at 5.  There are outliers.  Only midwits refuse to acknowledge this.[/quote]

It’s only very basic, unimaginative parents looking to virtue signal who emphasize learning to read at a young age (and have children who pick up that and “beg” to learn). I agree with PP that it’s not developmentally appropriate and there are so many better physical and imaginative things to do.

Signed, parent of two children who entered K not knowing how to read… and were at 2nd or 3rd grade reading level by the end of the year (and it only went up from there)[/quote]

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