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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of you should visit the homes if an opportunity allows of a student who may be low performing. Some need help. Help them.[/quote]

You may be surprised to learn that schools aren't able to police the life choices of private families. [/quote]

Does each elementary school have adult reading volunteers (or [i]enough[/i] staff) who can come in to read with students who are struggling? Maybe that could help the lowest performing students.[/quote]

Our ES didn't allow parent volunteers.[/quote]

You would be surprised to see how skilled and knowledgeable a teacher has to be for any child who doesn’t pick up reading quickly. Mild dyslexia is extremely common and probably a huge part of the problem here. The good news is the mcps curriculum is much better for this now. However, random volunteers wouldn’t make a big difference without intensive training and ideally years of experience. In fact, lack of training can sometimes make the problem worse. [/quote]

Teaching reading isn't harder than neurosurgery. [/quote]

I'm not sure that is the right comparison. Teachers don't get the luxury of working 1-1 with a child who can't read, the way neurosurgeons completely focus on one patient at a time. They are also trying to treat and triage the other 24 students at the same time while following a curriculum, preparing kids for standardized tests, attending SO MANY IEP meetings, dealing with behaviors, etc. I think if a teacher were assigned to just remediate one kid's reading struggles at a time, they would be more successful...you know, like parents can. Even neurosurgeons would struggle if they had to operate on a brain while helping 20 other patients with a variety of issues at the same time.[/quote]

This x one million! As a certified dyslexic practitioner and teacher, it’s not “hard” to teach kids how to read but if someone is dyslexic they likely need repeated exposure and practice of foundational phonics concepts in order for it to stick. It feels almost impossible to do this with a class of 25 other students who also have a range of academic and behavior issues. [/quote]

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