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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My older daughter was "taught to read" using this shit approach and is STILL behind and not reading well. F_ her kindergarten teacher.[/quote]

You could take part of the blame as well. It’s not all on teachers.[/quote]

Why? This was my first child and I trusted the school to teach my child how to read, and I trusted them when I said "she can't read these specific beginner books, is that a problem?" and they said "nope, she's right where she should be." How was I to know any better? I think he moral of the story here is you can't trust educators, which is so, so sad.[/quote]
Spot on, that's why parents have to be the primary source of teaching for their children until they can fly solo (hopefully by middle school). Listen to, be respectful, but take teacher feedback with some skepticism; you as a parent can (and should) independently assess your kid at a young age and draw your own conclusions in addition to teacher, to reduce risk.[/quote]

That’s fine and all but in a two parent working household why all the high property taxes to fund schools whose employees now say ‘do it yourself’.  If we are Home Depot’ing it than please let’s cut the 3 billion dollar budgets of MCPS and FCPS and we will redirect funds to teach ourselves the science of learning or find a tutor immersed in direct instruction, phonics, abacus method for math, et al.  [/quote]

No one is saying “do it yourself”. All the posts say things need to happen at school and home.[/quote]

Unfortunately in our experience, the school said my 1st grader was reading “just fine”, and the report card showed it—mostly all 4s in LA! We transferred him to a Catholic school (not for this reason), and his teacher was alarmed by his (lack of) reading progress. He was immediately put into a FIVE days per week reading intervention.  I felt like such an idiot for not pushing my concerns with his 1st grade teacher. And, I’m not blaming the teacher. She may not have known better, and it’s likely my son was performing similar to his peers. The whole thing is frustrating, for all involved. [/quote]

I could have written this post myself. I share your frustrations. [/quote]

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