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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a kindergarten teacher and the students who struggle almost always test out with IQs in the low 70s. It takes them a very long time to learn new things. If an average kid learns letter names and sounds in the first few months of kindergarten, it takes these students until the end of the year or even into first grade to learn the same information. They fall behind from the beginning and never catch up. They just need a lot more repetition that cannot always be given in a school day. The same students who struggle in kindergarten are the same students who struggle in every subsequent grade level. Some of them have more determination but many give up by late elementary school and become behavior issues. [/quote]

It’s such a travesty that these facts are being ignored. So everyone has to waste time, teachers get aggravated and quit, all because some people don’t want to face reality because it’s not PC or whatever. Very sad.[/quote]

You don't understand that low IQ have no where to go. Who is being PC about it? They don't qualify for special ed. There aren't any vocational technical programs. Maybe they became criminals and fuel the school to prison pipeline. Or they drop out. If you don't like it, work to change the law. Provide more funding for reading teachers.

Children with lower IQs may plateau. They don't plateau in kindergarten class. Think people. It's kindergarten. They're either not being taught by a good teacher. Or the teacher has her hands full. K through 3 needs extra adults in the room to help with different reading grade levels. This is just common sense and common knowledge. Are you low IQ that you think children are stupid in kindergarten? [/quote]

They just need to separate classes by reading level at that age. If the kid can’t read going into 1st grade then they shouldn’t be in the same room with kids that have been reading for 3 years. Nobody wins. [/quote]

That was called "tracking," and they stopped doing that in the 1980s.

As a kid who read in the highest reading book, I was alone. And I dreaded listening to the other kids read aloud. Reading aloud slows me down.

Why do think you audible and podcasts are so popular? It's not really reading. It's listening to words read aloud to you. That's not reading comprehension.[/quote]

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