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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our charter unfortunately has bought into the SOR cult of phonics drilling, like Fundations. It's pretty sad and joyless - but the overall school culture is good - so we basically try and ignore. We told the teacher at the beginning of the year that we would not be supporting homework assignments at home (DD is in K and goes to aftercare where they do homework).[/quote]

Hope this parent didn't just continue to ignore the situation!

This post highlights [b]TWO [/b]key mistakes that can keep kids from thriving. First -- if the parent is correct, it sounds like the charter is going overboard with SOR (Science of Reading) and phonics. Kids certainly need to know how to sound out words, but teaching phonics in isolation won't achieve the goal. One would have thought we would have that figured out by now.
 
Second, what kind of parent would tell "the teacher at the beginning of the year that we would not be supporting homework assignments at home"? This attitude will cause a child to suffer academically, socially, emotionally, etc. in the long-term. Children should arrive in Kindergarten [u]already knowing[/u] the alphabet and all of the sounds at MINIMUM. Ideally, they can read before they enter the classroom...and that means a parent would have had to invest substantial time reading to and teaching them from the time they were born...doing what a good parent should do...what a good parent would want to do. Make the time.

Worth reading: https://raisingamericans.substack.com/p/the-american-reading-crisis-and-how
The American Reading Crisis and How to Ensure the Phonics Renaissance Succeeds: Why the laudable return to phonics is not enough

SoldaStory podcast is really interesting too...[/quote]

We also told teacher we would not do homework with K kid and we have a minority language only household and do not believe in homework in K. Kid seems to be doing in aftercare with other kids. Kid arrived in K reading short words in three languages, so we aren’t too worried. [/quote]

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