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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:14 I'm not at your meetings. Internal issue. Sorry.
I'm sure for some kids some of this stuff is very hard due to disabilities etc., but my kids started kindergarten already knowing how to decode all words and how to add and subtract. These skills weren't hard to teach. Took one year. I taught them these skills myself using products sometimes from 1950 and didn't expect the school to. Good thing I guess. I really have no idea why teachers and school districts make things so complex.[/quote]

Do you realize that many, many, many kids come to school not knowing the difference between letters and numbers?  Do you realize that some kids have NEVER held a book?  Some have never been read to.  Some are sharing a bedroom with their entire family of 8.  I have families who are refugees, who speak 3 different languages, who came from countries without electricity, etc, etc.  Imo, decoding is one of the smallest issues in education.  In my experience, the biggest issues are that kids don't have the background experiences that middle income kids have.  They don't have the vocabulary....in fact sometimes they only have about a tenth of the vocab of a typical kid.  They don't have any kind of parenting at home and sit in front of the TV the entire time they are not in school.  They don't go out and play, they don't go to camp or music lessons, they don't go to museums, in fact most have never left a 3 mile radius of their home.  Background experiences and vocabulary affects comprehension.  Anyone without a disability can decode, but comprehension is a separate issue.

Schools are not making reading instruction complex.  [/quote]

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