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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think we can blame parents. It’s not fair to expect parents to spend an hour a day tutoring what should be taught in the 7 hours they’re in school daily.

I blame edtech. Get rid of the laptops and force reading from paper books and textbooks. It’s not the same to read on a screen.

It's not fair to ask parents to... parent? Please.

If you can't spend an hour a day reading to or with your kid, asking them what they're reading, reviewing with them what they learned that day in school, and talking to them about your day, you are failing as a parent.

You need to read to your children. Read a lot. It can be in English or in another language. Just read. An hour per day is not a lot to ask. It can be 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at night if that's easier. But you, as a parent, should absolutely be spending at least an hour per day "tutoring" (including reading to) your children.

I think most parents do that. They read, play games, watch movies, all helpful. But school is where most of the work should be done.

Parents need to work with their kids at home.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think we can blame parents. It’s not fair to expect parents to spend an hour a day tutoring what should be taught in the 7 hours they’re in school daily.

I blame edtech. Get rid of the laptops and force reading from paper books and textbooks. It’s not the same to read on a screen.

It's not fair to ask parents to... parent? Please.

If you can't spend an hour a day reading to or with your kid, asking them what they're reading, reviewing with them what they learned that day in school, and talking to them about your day, you are failing as a parent.

You need to read to your children. Read a lot. It can be in English or in another language. Just read. An hour per day is not a lot to ask. It can be 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at night if that's easier. But you, as a parent, should absolutely be spending at least an hour per day "tutoring" (including reading to) your children.

No. Schools need to teach. There was no way parents were doing all that in the not so distant past, and yet children still learned to read … AT SCHOOL.

My parents taught me to read and I taught my kids. I just read to them and with them pointing out each word and putting educational shows on the tv with closed captioning. Schools don't always.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think we can blame parents. It’s not fair to expect parents to spend an hour a day tutoring what should be taught in the 7 hours they’re in school daily.

I blame edtech. Get rid of the laptops and force reading from paper books and textbooks. It’s not the same to read on a screen.

It's not fair to ask parents to... parent? Please.

If you can't spend an hour a day reading to or with your kid, asking them what they're reading, reviewing with them what they learned that day in school, and talking to them about your day, you are failing as a parent.

You need to read to your children. Read a lot. It can be in English or in another language. Just read. An hour per day is not a lot to ask. It can be 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at night if that's easier. But you, as a parent, should absolutely be spending at least an hour per day "tutoring" (including reading to) your children.

I think most parents do that. They read, play games, watch movies, all helpful. But school is where most of the work should be done.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think we can blame parents. It’s not fair to expect parents to spend an hour a day tutoring what should be taught in the 7 hours they’re in school daily.

I blame edtech. Get rid of the laptops and force reading from paper books and textbooks. It’s not the same to read on a screen.

It's not fair to ask parents to... parent? Please.

If you can't spend an hour a day reading to or with your kid, asking them what they're reading, reviewing with them what they learned that day in school, and talking to them about your day, you are failing as a parent.

You need to read to your children. Read a lot. It can be in English or in another language. Just read. An hour per day is not a lot to ask. It can be 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at night if that's easier. But you, as a parent, should absolutely be spending at least an hour per day "tutoring" (including reading to) your children.

No. Schools need to teach. There was no way parents were doing all that in the not so distant past, and yet children still learned to read … AT SCHOOL.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think we can blame parents. It’s not fair to expect parents to spend an hour a day tutoring what should be taught in the 7 hours they’re in school daily.

I blame edtech. Get rid of the laptops and force reading from paper books and textbooks. It’s not the same to read on a screen.

It's not fair to ask parents to... parent? Please.

If you can't spend an hour a day reading to or with your kid, asking them what they're reading, reviewing with them what they learned that day in school, and talking to them about your day, you are failing as a parent.

You need to read to your children. Read a lot. It can be in English or in another language. Just read. An hour per day is not a lot to ask. It can be 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at night if that's easier. But you, as a parent, should absolutely be spending at least an hour per day "tutoring" (including reading to) your children.

The reason why most teachers are not teachers in the truest sense of the word because in order to teach you must first have respect from the student and the institution. Without that there is no teaching or learning. If you try to point out truth dum dums cannot recognize what that means because it's all run by bs, gossip, blame, and excuses. There is no virtue in the this paradigm.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think we can blame parents. It’s not fair to expect parents to spend an hour a day tutoring what should be taught in the 7 hours they’re in school daily.

I blame edtech. Get rid of the laptops and force reading from paper books and textbooks. It’s not the same to read on a screen.

Parents who rely totally on the school to teach everything are definitely to blame. But yes, there should be a return to books and textbooks.

I’m sorry but this is a horrible attitude. The schools should be responsible for teaching! That’s not a controversial opinion! It worked well for many decades. Kids learned to read, write, do math, they learned facts, and did science experiments, etc. We need only look at the education statistics in past censuses here: https://educationdata.org/education-attainment-statistics

1950 census: children in school were silent generation. Only 34% of adults had a HS diploma.
1960 census: children in school were baby boomers. 41% of adults had a HS diploma.
1970 census: children in school were the youngest baby boomers and oldest Gen X. 55% of adults had a HS diploma. (Baby boomers were driving a lot of the increase in HS graduation rates and they generally did not have school age children by 1970).
1980 census: children in school were Gen X. 68% of adults had a HS diploma.

The point is we don’t get to relatively high levels of educational attainment in the US until 1980! Do you really think non-HS graduate mom and dad were extensively working with their kids in 1950 to teach them to read? No, because that was the school’s job. The best you were going to get was parents reading simple picture books to their young kids and not every household even had that.

This is to say nothing of the pre-1950s years in educational attainment. Kids in public school often had illiterate parents or parents who could read at a basic level, or immigrant parents still learning English. But they still learned to read in school because the schools actually taught it.

Is there a way to directly compare DC Math, Reading and Science metrics to NAEP averages?

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Anonymous wrote:Now go figure out what states those kids are in. I bet you all of the majoritiy are in RED STATES. Because when you consistently defund education over decades in favor of fighting to ensure the 0.6 transgender kids in your state can't play soccer, you end up with 4th graders who can't read.

LCPS is in a blue state. My students in 9 and 10 grades have OBNOXIOUS spelling errors. Their punctuation is nonexistent.

What’s the excuse?

Are you talking about your students? It’s your job to continue with grammar, punctuation and spelling. Their spelling and grammar aren’t flawless just because they are in 9th grade.

DP and in a different district. It’s true. My teen’s 10th grade honors English class syllabus specifically stated students are required to use capitalization and punctuation in all sentences for written or typed papers. WTF. What is going on in schools?

I don’t teach English… but I jump into different course classrooms. It’s beyond ridiculous what I see. The other day, being the last day of the quarter, no work was done and no new material was taught.

Kids resorted to playing the hangman since phones are banned.

This 9th grader spelled EGAL for EAGLE (they were doing animals). Another one that made me truly wonder what the actual facc is happening in the so-called richest county of the USA is when they were doing countries, and in proving hints a kid goes “yeah, this one is in Europe around the Italy area”

He was referencing a northern African country. I swear I do NOT want my kids to be this ignorant.

Spelling phonetically usually is related to a learning disability. I posted earlier about these excellent programs that National Geographic produces that our middle school uses to identify each country, continent and type of government. Maybe the schools can try a new approach if the kids are doing so badly that they aren’t clear on continents by high school although to be fair that area is squishy with three continents close together.

Yes. The schools needs to use the approach called, “Kids need to write words and read books.” Not another learning app.

Kids have to read complete books, I don’t know what school systems are not buying books anymore. It’s hard to believe.

I wrote about the National Geographic and their amazing geography programs. These are not apps. They don’t use apps.

Many, many schools kids are not reading full books, and of the ones that are, it’s very few and they are below grade level and or poor quality graphic novels. Kids need to physically write words and read a lot of books. There is no learning program that can take the place of this. Kids aren’t doing this in schools anymore. The kid above is phonetically spelling because he has not had adequate exposure to literature and enough practice in writing. This is what happens. And add on top of that, schools don’t specifically teach grammar and spelling either anymore. Now we have a bunch of kids that cannot spell, write, or read beyond basics. It isn’t a learning disability- it’s an utter failure from education system.

People keep posting about how many schools don’t read books anymore but I’ve never heard of a specific county or town that does this.
My 7th grader this year has read Of Mice and Men, The Giver and right now The Outsiders.

As for phonetic spelling, students with dyslexia can have difficulty with spelling. Other difficulties have the student seeing the word spelled phonetically as correct. Of course some people are just bad spellers because they don’t put the effort in. And the previous poster said they do very little to nothing with struggling kids which is alarming.

These learning programs are not supposed to take the place of the basics. They only enhance what they are learning. And there is an assumption that the students are at where they should be with regard to reading and writing.

What public school district is this?

It’s outside of Boston.

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Anonymous wrote:Now go figure out what states those kids are in. I bet you all of the majoritiy are in RED STATES. Because when you consistently defund education over decades in favor of fighting to ensure the 0.6 transgender kids in your state can't play soccer, you end up with 4th graders who can't read.

LCPS is in a blue state. My students in 9 and 10 grades have OBNOXIOUS spelling errors. Their punctuation is nonexistent.

What’s the excuse?

Are you talking about your students? It’s your job to continue with grammar, punctuation and spelling. Their spelling and grammar aren’t flawless just because they are in 9th grade.

DP and in a different district. It’s true. My teen’s 10th grade honors English class syllabus specifically stated students are required to use capitalization and punctuation in all sentences for written or typed papers. WTF. What is going on in schools?

I don’t teach English… but I jump into different course classrooms. It’s beyond ridiculous what I see. The other day, being the last day of the quarter, no work was done and no new material was taught.

Kids resorted to playing the hangman since phones are banned.

This 9th grader spelled EGAL for EAGLE (they were doing animals). Another one that made me truly wonder what the actual facc is happening in the so-called richest county of the USA is when they were doing countries, and in proving hints a kid goes “yeah, this one is in Europe around the Italy area”

He was referencing a northern African country. I swear I do NOT want my kids to be this ignorant.

Spelling phonetically usually is related to a learning disability. I posted earlier about these excellent programs that National Geographic produces that our middle school uses to identify each country, continent and type of government. Maybe the schools can try a new approach if the kids are doing so badly that they aren’t clear on continents by high school although to be fair that area is squishy with three continents close together.

Yes. The schools needs to use the approach called, “Kids need to write words and read books.” Not another learning app.

Kids have to read complete books, I don’t know what school systems are not buying books anymore. It’s hard to believe.

I wrote about the National Geographic and their amazing geography programs. These are not apps. They don’t use apps.

Starting at what age? Mine is in 3rd and has never read an entire book as a class. He's read whole books at home.

In first grade I think they all read different books according to their ability.

My second oldest read James and the Giant Peach with his class in 2nd grade. My middle child is what they call a “reluctant reader” but managed to blend in the middle. My youngest child was home with Covid isolation in pieces of 2nd and 3rd grades and it was chaos. She didn’t have books until 4th grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Now go figure out what states those kids are in. I bet you all of the majoritiy are in RED STATES. Because when you consistently defund education over decades in favor of fighting to ensure the 0.6 transgender kids in your state can't play soccer, you end up with 4th graders who can't read.

LCPS is in a blue state. My students in 9 and 10 grades have OBNOXIOUS spelling errors. Their punctuation is nonexistent.

What’s the excuse?

Are you talking about your students? It’s your job to continue with grammar, punctuation and spelling. Their spelling and grammar aren’t flawless just because they are in 9th grade.

DP and in a different district. It’s true. My teen’s 10th grade honors English class syllabus specifically stated students are required to use capitalization and punctuation in all sentences for written or typed papers. WTF. What is going on in schools?

I don’t teach English… but I jump into different course classrooms. It’s beyond ridiculous what I see. The other day, being the last day of the quarter, no work was done and no new material was taught.

Kids resorted to playing the hangman since phones are banned.

This 9th grader spelled EGAL for EAGLE (they were doing animals). Another one that made me truly wonder what the actual facc is happening in the so-called richest county of the USA is when they were doing countries, and in proving hints a kid goes “yeah, this one is in Europe around the Italy area”

He was referencing a northern African country. I swear I do NOT want my kids to be this ignorant.

Spelling phonetically usually is related to a learning disability. I posted earlier about these excellent programs that National Geographic produces that our middle school uses to identify each country, continent and type of government. Maybe the schools can try a new approach if the kids are doing so badly that they aren’t clear on continents by high school although to be fair that area is squishy with three continents close together.

Yes. The schools needs to use the approach called, “Kids need to write words and read books.” Not another learning app.

Kids have to read complete books, I don’t know what school systems are not buying books anymore. It’s hard to believe.

I wrote about the National Geographic and their amazing geography programs. These are not apps. They don’t use apps.

Many, many schools kids are not reading full books, and of the ones that are, it’s very few and they are below grade level and or poor quality graphic novels. Kids need to physically write words and read a lot of books. There is no learning program that can take the place of this. Kids aren’t doing this in schools anymore. The kid above is phonetically spelling because he has not had adequate exposure to literature and enough practice in writing. This is what happens. And add on top of that, schools don’t specifically teach grammar and spelling either anymore. Now we have a bunch of kids that cannot spell, write, or read beyond basics. It isn’t a learning disability- it’s an utter failure from education system.

People keep posting about how many schools don’t read books anymore but I’ve never heard of a specific county or town that does this.
My 7th grader this year has read Of Mice and Men, The Giver and right now The Outsiders.

As for phonetic spelling, students with dyslexia can have difficulty with spelling. Other difficulties have the student seeing the word spelled phonetically as correct. Of course some people are just bad spellers because they don’t put the effort in. And the previous poster said they do very little to nothing with struggling kids which is alarming.

These learning programs are not supposed to take the place of the basics. They only enhance what they are learning. And there is an assumption that the students are at where they should be with regard to reading and writing.

What public school district is this?

It’s outside of Boston.

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Anonymous wrote:Now go figure out what states those kids are in. I bet you all of the majoritiy are in RED STATES. Because when you consistently defund education over decades in favor of fighting to ensure the 0.6 transgender kids in your state can't play soccer, you end up with 4th graders who can't read.

LCPS is in a blue state. My students in 9 and 10 grades have OBNOXIOUS spelling errors. Their punctuation is nonexistent.

What’s the excuse?

Are you talking about your students? It’s your job to continue with grammar, punctuation and spelling. Their spelling and grammar aren’t flawless just because they are in 9th grade.

DP and in a different district. It’s true. My teen’s 10th grade honors English class syllabus specifically stated students are required to use capitalization and punctuation in all sentences for written or typed papers. WTF. What is going on in schools?

I don’t teach English… but I jump into different course classrooms. It’s beyond ridiculous what I see. The other day, being the last day of the quarter, no work was done and no new material was taught.

Kids resorted to playing the hangman since phones are banned.

This 9th grader spelled EGAL for EAGLE (they were doing animals). Another one that made me truly wonder what the actual facc is happening in the so-called richest county of the USA is when they were doing countries, and in proving hints a kid goes “yeah, this one is in Europe around the Italy area”

He was referencing a northern African country. I swear I do NOT want my kids to be this ignorant.

Spelling phonetically usually is related to a learning disability. I posted earlier about these excellent programs that National Geographic produces that our middle school uses to identify each country, continent and type of government. Maybe the schools can try a new approach if the kids are doing so badly that they aren’t clear on continents by high school although to be fair that area is squishy with three continents close together.

Yes. The schools needs to use the approach called, “Kids need to write words and read books.” Not another learning app.

Kids have to read complete books, I don’t know what school systems are not buying books anymore. It’s hard to believe.

I wrote about the National Geographic and their amazing geography programs. These are not apps. They don’t use apps.

Many, many schools kids are not reading full books, and of the ones that are, it’s very few and they are below grade level and or poor quality graphic novels. Kids need to physically write words and read a lot of books. There is no learning program that can take the place of this. Kids aren’t doing this in schools anymore. The kid above is phonetically spelling because he has not had adequate exposure to literature and enough practice in writing. This is what happens. And add on top of that, schools don’t specifically teach grammar and spelling either anymore. Now we have a bunch of kids that cannot spell, write, or read beyond basics. It isn’t a learning disability- it’s an utter failure from education system.

People keep posting about how many schools don’t read books anymore but I’ve never heard of a specific county or town that does this.
My 7th grader this year has read Of Mice and Men, The Giver and right now The Outsiders.

As for phonetic spelling, students with dyslexia can have difficulty with spelling. Other difficulties have the student seeing the word spelled phonetically as correct. Of course some people are just bad spellers because they don’t put the effort in. And the previous poster said they do very little to nothing with struggling kids which is alarming.

These learning programs are not supposed to take the place of the basics. They only enhance what they are learning. And there is an assumption that the students are at where they should be with regard to reading and writing.

What public school district is this?

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Anonymous wrote:Now go figure out what states those kids are in. I bet you all of the majoritiy are in RED STATES. Because when you consistently defund education over decades in favor of fighting to ensure the 0.6 transgender kids in your state can't play soccer, you end up with 4th graders who can't read.

LCPS is in a blue state. My students in 9 and 10 grades have OBNOXIOUS spelling errors. Their punctuation is nonexistent.

What’s the excuse?

Are you talking about your students? It’s your job to continue with grammar, punctuation and spelling. Their spelling and grammar aren’t flawless just because they are in 9th grade.

DP and in a different district. It’s true. My teen’s 10th grade honors English class syllabus specifically stated students are required to use capitalization and punctuation in all sentences for written or typed papers. WTF. What is going on in schools?

I don’t teach English… but I jump into different course classrooms. It’s beyond ridiculous what I see. The other day, being the last day of the quarter, no work was done and no new material was taught.

Kids resorted to playing the hangman since phones are banned.

This 9th grader spelled EGAL for EAGLE (they were doing animals). Another one that made me truly wonder what the actual facc is happening in the so-called richest county of the USA is when they were doing countries, and in proving hints a kid goes “yeah, this one is in Europe around the Italy area”

He was referencing a northern African country. I swear I do NOT want my kids to be this ignorant.

Spelling phonetically usually is related to a learning disability. I posted earlier about these excellent programs that National Geographic produces that our middle school uses to identify each country, continent and type of government. Maybe the schools can try a new approach if the kids are doing so badly that they aren’t clear on continents by high school although to be fair that area is squishy with three continents close together.

Yes. The schools needs to use the approach called, “Kids need to write words and read books.” Not another learning app.

Kids have to read complete books, I don’t know what school systems are not buying books anymore. It’s hard to believe.

I wrote about the National Geographic and their amazing geography programs. These are not apps. They don’t use apps.

Starting at what age? Mine is in 3rd and has never read an entire book as a class. He's read whole books at home.

The third graders in our parochial school have already read two Narnia books, and they have no computer or tablet exposure at school except for MAP testing…

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Anonymous wrote:Now go figure out what states those kids are in. I bet you all of the majoritiy are in RED STATES. Because when you consistently defund education over decades in favor of fighting to ensure the 0.6 transgender kids in your state can't play soccer, you end up with 4th graders who can't read.

LCPS is in a blue state. My students in 9 and 10 grades have OBNOXIOUS spelling errors. Their punctuation is nonexistent.

What’s the excuse?

Are you talking about your students? It’s your job to continue with grammar, punctuation and spelling. Their spelling and grammar aren’t flawless just because they are in 9th grade.

DP and in a different district. It’s true. My teen’s 10th grade honors English class syllabus specifically stated students are required to use capitalization and punctuation in all sentences for written or typed papers. WTF. What is going on in schools?

I don’t teach English… but I jump into different course classrooms. It’s beyond ridiculous what I see. The other day, being the last day of the quarter, no work was done and no new material was taught.

Kids resorted to playing the hangman since phones are banned.

This 9th grader spelled EGAL for EAGLE (they were doing animals). Another one that made me truly wonder what the actual facc is happening in the so-called richest county of the USA is when they were doing countries, and in proving hints a kid goes “yeah, this one is in Europe around the Italy area”

He was referencing a northern African country. I swear I do NOT want my kids to be this ignorant.

Spelling phonetically usually is related to a learning disability. I posted earlier about these excellent programs that National Geographic produces that our middle school uses to identify each country, continent and type of government. Maybe the schools can try a new approach if the kids are doing so badly that they aren’t clear on continents by high school although to be fair that area is squishy with three continents close together.

Yes. The schools needs to use the approach called, “Kids need to write words and read books.” Not another learning app.

Kids have to read complete books, I don’t know what school systems are not buying books anymore. It’s hard to believe.

I wrote about the National Geographic and their amazing geography programs. These are not apps. They don’t use apps.

Starting at what age? Mine is in 3rd and has never read an entire book as a class. He's read whole books at home.

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Anonymous wrote:Now go figure out what states those kids are in. I bet you all of the majoritiy are in RED STATES. Because when you consistently defund education over decades in favor of fighting to ensure the 0.6 transgender kids in your state can't play soccer, you end up with 4th graders who can't read.

LCPS is in a blue state. My students in 9 and 10 grades have OBNOXIOUS spelling errors. Their punctuation is nonexistent.

What’s the excuse?

Are you talking about your students? It’s your job to continue with grammar, punctuation and spelling. Their spelling and grammar aren’t flawless just because they are in 9th grade.

DP and in a different district. It’s true. My teen’s 10th grade honors English class syllabus specifically stated students are required to use capitalization and punctuation in all sentences for written or typed papers. WTF. What is going on in schools?

I don’t teach English… but I jump into different course classrooms. It’s beyond ridiculous what I see. The other day, being the last day of the quarter, no work was done and no new material was taught.

Kids resorted to playing the hangman since phones are banned.

This 9th grader spelled EGAL for EAGLE (they were doing animals). Another one that made me truly wonder what the actual facc is happening in the so-called richest county of the USA is when they were doing countries, and in proving hints a kid goes “yeah, this one is in Europe around the Italy area”

He was referencing a northern African country. I swear I do NOT want my kids to be this ignorant.

Spelling phonetically usually is related to a learning disability. I posted earlier about these excellent programs that National Geographic produces that our middle school uses to identify each country, continent and type of government. Maybe the schools can try a new approach if the kids are doing so badly that they aren’t clear on continents by high school although to be fair that area is squishy with three continents close together.

Yes. The schools needs to use the approach called, “Kids need to write words and read books.” Not another learning app.

Kids have to read complete books, I don’t know what school systems are not buying books anymore. It’s hard to believe.

I wrote about the National Geographic and their amazing geography programs. These are not apps. They don’t use apps.

Many, many schools kids are not reading full books, and of the ones that are, it’s very few and they are below grade level and or poor quality graphic novels. Kids need to physically write words and read a lot of books. There is no learning program that can take the place of this. Kids aren’t doing this in schools anymore. The kid above is phonetically spelling because he has not had adequate exposure to literature and enough practice in writing. This is what happens. And add on top of that, schools don’t specifically teach grammar and spelling either anymore. Now we have a bunch of kids that cannot spell, write, or read beyond basics. It isn’t a learning disability- it’s an utter failure from education system.

People keep posting about how many schools don’t read books anymore but I’ve never heard of a specific county or town that does this.
My 7th grader this year has read Of Mice and Men, The Giver and right now The Outsiders.

As for phonetic spelling, students with dyslexia can have difficulty with spelling. Other difficulties have the student seeing the word spelled phonetically as correct. Of course some people are just bad spellers because they don’t put the effort in. And the previous poster said they do very little to nothing with struggling kids which is alarming.

These learning programs are not supposed to take the place of the basics. They only enhance what they are learning. And there is an assumption that the students are at where they should be with regard to reading and writing.