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[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]
But now you know and are empowered to fix it, better sooner than later! Also, I'm surprised that you were not aware that many kids start to slowly read by 1st (sometimes even earlier in K) so you should have seen some warning signs by late 1st grade, irrespective of Covid. Personally, I'm trying to teach my kindergartener how to read now, and I'm expecting that it will click to some degree *this year* and she'll be able to read some simple picture books with easy words/sentences. If she does not improve during beginning to middle of 1st grade next year, I will feel that something is wrong. I'm not trying to blame you personally but think that parents should know the signs and be aware of this (they should certainly be asking teachers the hard questions if they don't see their kid start to pick up interest in reading, or improvement across quarters). And what they do in school is not enough, parents have to practice a little each day with their kids at home, that will bring tremendous improvement and result in kids being early readers.[/quote]

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