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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks, Youngkin.

Shittiest governor ever.[/quote]

Umm what is wrong with you? This is training for the literacy act that was bipartisan. Teachers in Virginia need to start teaching in accordance with the science of reading. Since it’s a whole new way of teaching they need this training. Are you against students learning to read?

I agree with the rest of the PPs. Why November 4? They should just have the training right before or after thanksgiving break. Too many breaks aren’t good for learning. [/quote]

Um... science of reading isn't that new. It's been pretty standard for at least 10 years. APS has been incredibly slow to adapt a decent curriculum, but this isn't new and many teachers were trained in the science of reading [/quote]

Foreigner here. Trying to wrap my head around the fact that native English speakers are still figuring out a way to teach reading... People have been reading English for centuries and it's still a mystery how to teach it??!! mind-boggling [/quote]

I was born in the US and have lived here my entire life. I am also baffled by this.[/quote]
What you need to understand is how much US education is a for-profit industry. Your children’s education serves to prop up billion dollar testing companies, companies that sell curriculum, textbooks, etc. so every few years, everything changes. All new way to teach = new materials schools have to buy  and new tests to assess what they learned.

You’re looking at education through the lens of just teaching kids. You have to look at it as a massive money making industry to understand why it works the way it does in the US. Like everything else here, it goes back to making companies money.

-teacher [/quote]

But, it’s not like teaching kids to read is new. How were “experts” so easily duped into buying faulty curricula? Seems like “experts” should’ve known better and not fallen for new, shiny things that harmed millions of kids.[/quote]

Of course they did. Because again, it all comes down to money. Lucy Calkins and NY Teaching College made a ton of money selling that curriculum to schools. Pearson made tons of money making materials and tests for it. Many people knew all along the workshop model wasn’t the best way to teach kids to read but teachers don’t control the profit of education. Everything bad about education traces back to profit . Who profits and off what is the only question. [/quote]

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