Reply to Update on Mcps literacy levels

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Update on Mcps literacy levels "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The first thing that we want these efforts to accomplish is to alert parents that there’s a problem. A very simple, culturally competent, easy to understand sheet of paper that says your child has a problem,” said Black and Brown Coalition Co-Founder Diego Uriburu."

I don't think this person understands the problem.

Parents who don't care about their children being able to read aren't interested in a "culturally competent" lecture about it from the school. [/quote]

No, they understand the problem and are proposing a document to help alleviate.  The problem is that parents don’t clearly understand how their kids are doing because there is conflicting information.  Grades saying A or B, and Dibels saying not on level but teachers saying everything is fine.  This goes on for awhile and then suddenly kids need intervention.

It’s the same problem that is seen across students grades vs district assessments vs external assessments.  [/quote]

You think a parent who doesn't know their own kid whinthry live with can't read, never reads with their kid and uses YouTube as childcare gives a hoot about a Dibels?

This isn't about your AuDHD dyslexic child who gets weekly private therapy.
It's about the 50% of students who don't live in a family and community culture where literacy matters. [/quote]

The question is do you think kids who have parents that aren't fully literate (in their own languages) deserve to learn to read? It sounds like you don't.[/quote]

If their culture doesn't care about it and they don't want to attempt any assimilation then I mean maybe yea. [/quote]

Doesn't it feel a little pathetic to be an educator who can only teach kids to read if the parents can actually do the heavy lifting of providing explicit reading instruction? My mom was an immigrant who never even read books to me. You think kids can't learn to read unless their parents teach them? That means you haven't actually been teaching reading. Which tracks with the fact that MCPS was using Benchmark which does not explicitly teach kids how to read (it does explicitly teach bad habits)[/quote]

Educators can teach kids without at home support to read, it will just be more difficult given current circumstances.  There are a lot more EML students, students with special needs, and just average unprepared students showing up in classrooms.  Not to mention class sizes are bigger.  This means teachers have little time to work work with individual students or student groups.  Throw in problematic behaviors and it upends everything that use to happen[/quote]

So it's the students' fault now? Jfc[/quote]

Where did the pp say it’s the student’s fault? They mentioned special needs, EmL status, class sizes…and yes problematic behaviors that are largely due to parenting issues, not the students fault. [/quote]

:roll:

Anything to distract from MCPS's decision to gaslight parents while not to teaching kids to read[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics