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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You’re joking, right? It’s perfectly reasonable to expect kids to learn how to read at school. BTW, I had one kid learn to read around 3, and the other learned in Kindergarten like most kids. They were both privileged that I read to them a lot. Not every child is in a home where parents have time or the ability to do that.

So “too bad so sad”, they don’t get to learn because it is unreasonable to expect them to learn in school?[/quote]

Former first grade teacher here.  It is not unreasonable for them to learn to read in school.  I taught first grade back when kids learned to read in first grade.  Few came to school already reading and K did not teach reading in those days.

I spent several years teaching kids who lived in projects.  These were extremely poor kids.  It takes a lot longer and is very difficult to teach kids who lack language skills.  Biden quoted something the other day about the number of words a child has in a wealthy home vs a poor home.  I believe all parents love their kids, but not all parents know how to help them.  Talking to your children and reading to them is so important.  Few of the kids from the projects had books in the home.  There have been studies that show that even seeing their parents read has a positive effect on a child's reading progress.  When you have to begin instruction in Kindergarten with the right way to hold a book, it takes a long time to develop a fluent reader.  Kids who have been read to may not know how to read, but they do understand that print has meaning.

I firmly believe that if more money would be spent early on that gives guidance to parents of infants, it would do more than pre-k.  It starts at birth. 
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