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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Louis Morton is a great example https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/19/milloy-goodbye-strivers-survivors-of-dc/

The answer is that most poor dyslexic kids don't ever become competent readers. And by the way, most parents don't even find out their kids are dyslexic, because even if their kid is in pull-out for reading, [b]the teachers don't call it dyslexia.[/b] Poor kids who read less well than other kids just believe they are stupid.

I second the other parents who say they wish all schools would teach reading in a way that explicitly teaches the mechanics of reading. I also wish the schools would do more on parts of speech... my 6th grader with dyslexia has great trouble with figuring out words' meaning from context, and part of that is the ignorance of parts of speech.[/quote]

1. General classroom teachers have zero minutes of training on how to diagnose dyslexia. They’re not calling it dyslexia because they have no idea. Think about that. I graduated from one of the top ten elementary education programs in the entire country, and I have no idea how to diagnose dyslexia. I taught for over a decade before staying home with my child, most of that time in FCPS. Not one training on how to diagnose dyslexia.

2. For years, we were required to use Lucy Caulkins for writing and Fountas & Pinnell for reading. As a young teacher, I threw myself into those programs and felt stupid when they didn’t work. I’d been taught that Fontas and Punnell in particular was a research-based program, and my favorite professor touted the product. When they didn’t work, I worked harder, and did lots of Internet research. Finally, in my 6th year of teaching, I figured out that I couldn’t just follow the reading curriculum. I got better results, but it cost me about five extra hours a week, for the entire year.

Now imagine if I’d had my own kids. I couldn’t have done that extra work. Imagine if I’d had school loans and needed a second job. Imagine if Is taught for four years and thrown in the towel before ever figuring out that I want the problem. There are so many barriers to teachers doing well. We can’t just say that’s the teachers’ problem. They’ll quit. My kids won’t suffer, as they attend a school that other teachers transfer into. But low-income kids will.

This isn’t teachers’ fault. Vilify the people who wrote terrible curricula, trained teachers in terrible curricula, and the people who bought terrible curricula. Teachers have very little say over what they teach, especially the first three years.[/quote]

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