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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]

Preach it! It's disgusting that parents cannot trust the schools and people on this thread are blaming them (us) for what? Thinking teachers with teaching degrees and often masters degrees in teaching know more about reading development and teaching reading than we do? If that's an irresponsible assumption, then it's not parents who have the issue. It's the system, which is exactly the point of the podcast.

The other huge problem with it is, sure, the PhD lady and other educated people will eventually stop believing the teachers that everything is okay and pay major $ to fix it (as she did and so did I). But what about the uneducated immigrants who can't speak English? Many are working multiple jobs and don't have the time. What about the un-remediated dyslexic parents? Single parents? Poor parents? Or those with multiple of those disadvantages? If you're saying the only way to be a good parent is to do these things that are literally impossible for disadvantaged parents, you're saying their kids don't deserve to be taught to read. It's a huge social justice and equity issue.

This is not teacher bashing. This is pushback to parent bashing and a system that is failing a huge number of kids. And the implication that we parents on this thread were not involved or paying attention. I read and read and read to my kid and brought up concerns only to be dismissed multiple times.

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Well said![/quote]

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