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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My older daughter was "taught to read" using this shit approach and is STILL behind and not reading well. F_ her kindergarten teacher.[/quote]

You could take part of the blame as well. It’s not all on teachers.[/quote]

Why? This was my first child and I trusted the school to teach my child how to read, and I trusted them when I said "she can't read these specific beginner books, is that a problem?" and they said "nope, she's right where she should be." How was I to know any better? I think he moral of the story here is you can't trust educators, which is so, so sad.[/quote]
Spot on, that's why parents have to be the primary source of teaching for their children until they can fly solo (hopefully by middle school). Listen to, be respectful, but take teacher feedback with some skepticism; you as a parent can (and should) independently assess your kid at a young age and draw your own conclusions in addition to teacher, to reduce risk.[/quote]

But nobody tells new parents this - I am the child of uneducated immigrants. Everything I needed to learn, I learned in school. I have a phD, I'm successful, yet I trusted that my kids would also learn everything they needed to know in school, and that was not the case. My child was in 2nd grade during Covid, and didn't learn how to read in K and 1st, so we had to spend all of last year (3rd grade) paying a tutor to get her up to speed after three years without learning how to read!!![/quote]

If your child could not read by time they got to second grade, then yes you should have done something at that point. [/quote]

Should have done what? Asked the school to evaluate my child? Oh I did that and was gaslit about how she was on grade level and there was no issue. So we got private testing (waited four months and it $3800 out of pocket) and then we had to hire a private tutor at $125 per hour to teach phonics. Oh and then the school “reading specialist” kept trying to teach whole language. It was an overall awesome experience.[/quote]

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