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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've not met a single teacher in this country who is prepared to teach children to read - only retired teachers who considered it a part of their job.

My kids are in HS so this is not a recent discovery. When each of them were in K-5 it was all about "testing" their reading, not teaching it. That was considered to be parent's work. So we did it at home, like everyone else.[/quote]
I'm having a hard time following this- so [b]teachers, who have gone through years of training and time in the classroom, aren't prepared to teach kids to read[/b], but parents with no such training or practical experience should know how to do it at home?  What curriculum should we be using?[/quote]
NP here.  As absurd as it sounds, this has been documented.

Hard Words:  Why aren't kids being taught to read?
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read

"A big part of the problem is at the university level, in schools of education, according to the authors of a 2016 article in the Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders. "Faculty have ignored the scientific knowledge that informs reading acquisition," the authors wrote. "As a result, the pre-service teachers who are being educated at these institutions fail to receive the necessary training."[/quote]

+1.  The education-industrial complex is real.  There is serious profit in these reading curricula Ed schools create and peddle...that’s the key point.  You don’t just pivot when your beach house may be purchased with your next Lucy Caulkins creation that you ‘think’ works...also most Ed PhD’s are politicians and would be hard pressed to read a flow chart let alone understand and follow bench research on the science of reading.  The lower third of our college classes go into the profession sadly...[/quote]

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