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[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]

While I’m for a phonics based curriculum, this post assumes that DC was not being taught phonics in K.  It also assumes that the private school did something amazing in 3wks in 1st in spite of everything she learned in K and because she was developmentally ready.  There’s no way to know that this child would have caught on as quick or at all in K with a different curriculum or teacher. The post assumes the K learning and time was irrelevant when it may have been completely relevant to the progress in 1st.[/quote]

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