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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are in the Whitman school district (so a “good” school) and my DC went to kindergarten not reading. I asked the teacher what I needed to do to support DC, and the teacher said - just read to her every night.

I check in at the parent teacher conference in Nov, teacher said DC is fine. I checked in again in March, teacher said DC is fine (DC still not reading). End of the year, the teacher said DC was at grade level, but barely reading Level A books at home.

We decided to move to a private school with a phonics based approach. DC started reading within 3 weeks of starting school and caught up to grade level by the end of first grade. No private tutoring needed.

We are educated, wealthy, involved parents whose child failed to learn to read under the MCPS curriculum and learned easily under a phonics based system. We have the resources for tutoring and private school, which not all families have. We are at a good school. I know lots of kids learn to read with the current system, but lots do not - even those who have a lot of privilege.[/quote]

Why didn’t you just work with her at home? Would have been a lot cheaper than private.[/quote]

Why doesn’t MCPS offer a proven curriculum so that teachers can teach kids how to read AT school.

I taught my kids how to read at home (because yes, it is cheaper than private).  I also taught her Math because MCPS math sucks.

But it is ridiculous that this schools system, with its many resources, can’t provide our kids with the basic services one would expect.  [/quote]

+1.  Especially considering how long they are there every day. Sounds like the kids play games on chrome books more than anything else.[/quote]

The Chromebook games are a useless waste of time.  Ask your kids to show you what games they love playing.  Only 1-5% of the games are actually educational. The rest are garbage.

Not to mention, our ES has slowly done away with physical books to be replaced by crap on Epic.  [/quote]

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