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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in 4th and all of their classmates can read.  I chaperone their field trips and have seen them all read signs, activity sheets, etc.[/quote]

That’s a nice anecdote about your privileged little circle.

This forum’s acronym begins with “D.C.,” as in District of Columbia.  Were you aware that as recently as 2009, among D.C. residents:

- 36% of adults were functionally illiterate?

Gentrification has “cured” that problem somewhat; or at least relocated the problem outside D.C.’s boundaries.

If the reality of our failing public educational system in the USA is too much for you to handle, maybe you should retreat to your privileged little bubble instead of spouting statistically meaningless (and contrary) anecdotes on DCUM? [/quote]

DC is not unique.   There are hundreds of cities, small and large, around the country that have the poorest of the poor as their majority.   Kids living in shitty shacks down South or broken down concrete buildings in the North.  Kids with drug addicted mothers and absentee fathers.  And the kids who have the best parents who work hard are still surrounded by gangs and violence.

It’s not the schools.  It’s not the teachers.  It the bleak unsafe neighborhoods they live in where walking to school can be dangerous.   [/quote]

Disagree.  It is the schools and the teachers.  Even kids from stable homes need their parents to supplement at home in order to rise above grade level expectations.  Public school alone isn’t enough to learn the basic proficiency anymore.  It used to be…but not anymore [/quote]
Not true. My kid just graduated from DCPS. We didn't supplement anything. Never even read a book to him. He did well on all his Parcc tests. College is a breeze. Hid father skipped a grade or two in 80s and I went to magnet school.
DC was born ahead of many kids. Reading to him would have been an overkill.
It's not hard to be above grade level in public school in US.[/quote]

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