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Look, reading is important.  I would say, however, that very specific standards for it in grades K-1 are not helpful.  Kids develop differently and some kids come to K with no preschool experience.  That puts the kid behind because K is now academic.  [b]The kid with no preschool is much more likely to fail the standards . . . and that is not the K teacher's fault.[/b]

Also, your idea that reading has to follow some "incremental step" method is wrong.  Some kids know how to read before K and it's not because there was an "incremental step" method used.  People learn in very different ways.  [/quote]

You're right, it's not necessarily the kindergarten teacher's fault. But the point is not to establish whose fault it is. The point is to get the kid reading at grade level. So, what will it take to get the kid reading at grade level? [/quote]

Getting rid of standards certainly won't get kids reading at grade level, because then there's not really any definition or agreement of what "at grade level" even means.[/quote]

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