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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's the educators who need to get sued. They should have known better than to buy a shit program with no phonics.

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And you should know that it isn’t educators who choose and do purchase curriculum. My colleagues and I basically went behind our admin’s back to teach phonics. [/quote]

Exactly this! No one program or curriculum is going to be perfect. Anyone who has taught in the classroom learns that very quickly. I used both of these systems as an mcps teacher but I also provided phonics instruction because it was needed. [/quote]
I had a happy hour with a bunch of moms the last day of my daughter's 1st grade year and out of the 12 moms, 10 had been told that they needed to pay for private reading tutoring or consider holding their student back because they weren't meeting reading benchmarks.  The moms were all very upset and comparing and sharing tutor info.  All felt completely blindsided because they expected our highly regarded APS elementary to teach their kids to read and all read with their kids regularly, which is what they'd been told to do by the establishment to teach a love of reading and create a strong reader.

Our school used Lucy Calkin's reading workshop and it was utterly failing kids.  I was astounded.  I'd taught my daughter to read the summer before K using the phonics based program Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.  I'm so glad I did.  The other kid who could read on grade level was an early reader and had learned before kindergarten.

I still know these kids and moms.  One was diagnosed ADHD and another has dyslexia.  The other kids all caught up quickly with phonics tutoring.  They're smart kids who just hadn't been taught what they needed to learn to read.[/quote]

I don’t mean this as offensively as it is going to come off, but as resourced as people are in Arlington why didn’t the moms just work with them?  How were the kids not reading by first grade on their own? And why would a resourced parent not sit and teach their kids? My kids both learned before K just by reading with me.[/quote]
I think the parents had been told that they should read with their kids so that's what they were doing--that's what teachers told us to be doing per Lucy Calkins.  And there was also a view per LC that teaching boring phonics would spoil kids' love of reading, so you shouldn't do that.  Parents also had faith that the school would teach their kids to read.  After all, they're well respected schools right?  And up until that moment teachers had said the kids were fine and not behind, so it was a pretty big shift.[/quote]

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