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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hate to say it to the parents of these seriously undereducated kids at Garfield, but with scores like these:

[b]MATH: 52.29% below basic 42.20% basic 4.59% proficient 0.92% advanced
READING: 42.20% below basic 47.71% basic 9.17% proficient 0.92% advanced[/b]

These kids could stand to skip science and enrichment for a while and learn some reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic.

Too bad not to have science education.  But without the ability to read or add, these kids are going to be cut off from the world for the rest of their lives.

Sorry not to be politically correct, but wasn't Garfield rated THE WORST of all DC elementary schools on DC-CAS recently?  Time to teach to the test a little, and this lady sounds like the one to do it.[/quote]

Try to read this sentence and pretend you've never learned anything about science or social studies:
Penicillin was discovered sixty-three years after the end of the US Civil War.

Learning how to read isn't all about sounding out letters and words. [/quote]

I honestly do not follow.  If you are illiterate, scientific and historical context isn't going to help you READ that sentence.  Literacy is fundamental.  It is the first step to learning other stuff.  Science and history and music are wasted if you can't read.  [/quote]

Did you ever study a second language, but not become fluent at it?  Chances are you might be able to literally READ an entire story in that language aloud (or in your head), but at the end you'll have no idea what the story is about.  That is what it means to be able to decode, but not comprehend.  The reason you don't understand it is because you are not familiar with enough of the words, not because you literally cannot read it.[/quote]

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