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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I blame parents giving their children devices before they learn to read [/quote]

I would love to remove all devices but the teachers keep assigning homework in apps. Get rid of the garbage apps.[/quote]

I agree there is a little too much dependence on apps (thanks to underfunded & overcrowded schools), but Lexia is a great app.

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Lexia is awful.  My 6th grader has her 2nd grade sister do her assignments because it's so easy.  It goes so so slowly.

At they beginning when they first introduced Lexia they let kids move ahead if they passed a placement test, but now they require kids to do Lexia for their grade level.  It's so remedial.  A total waste of time.[/quote]

Lexia is not awful.

It’s a tool that can either be used effectively or not. 
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Yes it is.  It moves incredibly slowly.  It also has set levels so if a kid needs to work on one skill, but excels at others, they still have to wade through hours and hours of content that is far too easy.  And if you click the wrong thing (usually trying to rush and move faster) then you have to sit through asinine recordings to "teach" the missed content.  My kids equate Lexia to torture and I agree with them.[/quote]

Talk to your kids’ teachers. They can adjust the levels. 
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They won't.  Levels correspond to grade levels and they no longer allow kids to work above their grade level because then they run out of levels in upper grades.[/quote]

That's a different issue. That is HOW Lexia is being used, not a limitation of Lexia itself.

Lexia is a great tool. How it's implemented may vary. 
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