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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers in America need to learn humility. It's a failed profession. The results are abysmal and for all the talk about how hard they work, there's nothing to show for it. Every generation of kids is more badly educated than the last. Instead of accepting their responsibility for that, they vilify parents, because those are the people who see their failure up close and personal.[/quote]

Who do you think makes decisions in education? Not teachers. Teachers have to fill in the gaps.

Consultants, school boards, and administrators make the decisions. Teachers deal with the fallout. And the fact they get as much done as they do after the influence of those who don’t teach? That’s impressive. [/quote]

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Teachers did not randomly themselves start telling kids not to sound out words and to guess them instead. That was told to them re: how they needed to teach.

Teachers do not invent this insane new rule about emptying classrooms when one kid who does not belong mainstreamed is throwing a fit and destroying it. [/quote]

Ok but then stop blaming the parents for their kids struggling to read.  Because I see that over and over again, the parent should have been "working with them at home" but if they were using the same failed techniques the school was teaching, the kid still wasn't going to learn.  I have two kids with a gap of several years in between and it was so much easier to support my younger DC with reading because they were getting a solid foundation IN school.  Whereas with the older one I felt like I was swimming against the tide trying to help them.[/quote]

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