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re: Teacher warns about kids' illiteracy today
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:17 am to L1C4
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:17 am to L1C4
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When I went to school teachers would not have purple hair nor would have be allowed to.
There’s a shortage of teachers across the country for multiple reasons. Many districts are essentially filling out rosters with scraps.
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Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:19 am to AwgustaDawg
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This an opportunity to provide your child with a competitive advantage....teach them to read, write and think. It ain't hard. Or warehouse them in school for 12 years and blame the system or home school them by waking up and 9 AM and spending 3-4 hours a day at Walmart....they are your kids...if they can't read or write that is your fault, not the systems....not a teachers, it is your failure to parent that is to blame.
Who is this directed at? (from
waaaay up on that high horse and all)
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:24 am to prplhze2000
Who cares about literacy? What's important is that the kids know all 67 genders and protest ICE.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:27 am to idlewatcher
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ay should be dependent upon performance.
They should get paid based on how shitty parents are and how little they care about their kid's education?
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:27 am to TexasTiger08
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There’s a shortage of teachers across the country for multiple reasons. Many districts are essentially filling out rosters with scraps.
The state legislature here in Kentucky is trying to pass a bill that would allow 19 year olds to obtain their teaching license with an associate’s degree. All so they could pay teachers less and fill shortages.
I’m sure that’s going to go really well.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:30 am to prplhze2000
My seven year old isn’t likely some prodigy, but he can read full adult-level (no we don’t let him read erotica) chapter books. This shite starts at home.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:33 am to prplhze2000
Everything she descibed, I witness on a daily basis and can 100% vouch for.
The only thing she left out are the ones that just flat out DGAF, and will put forth zero effort (or just sleep) - but 99% of them don't know shite either.
And despite the hair, and depending on just how beefy the out of view lower half is, I'd have no problems popping a load in there occasionally.
The only thing she left out are the ones that just flat out DGAF, and will put forth zero effort (or just sleep) - but 99% of them don't know shite either.
And despite the hair, and depending on just how beefy the out of view lower half is, I'd have no problems popping a load in there occasionally.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:34 am to prplhze2000
The DEPT OF ED is the largest failure in history, period.
Burn it and rebuild it......and the cries of racism will be heard!
This dept cannot be repaired, it must be replaced.
Burn it and rebuild it......and the cries of racism will be heard!
This dept cannot be repaired, it must be replaced.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:35 am to prplhze2000
Yet, my 12 year old daughter and all her friends read more than me and my friends did as kids.
They all consume books. They have their own little book club and all. We have to fuss at my daughter for bringing books to dinner.
Another example of either I live in a massive bubble or the internet is lying again.
Or a bit of both.
They all consume books. They have their own little book club and all. We have to fuss at my daughter for bringing books to dinner.
Another example of either I live in a massive bubble or the internet is lying again.
Or a bit of both.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:37 am to EphesianArmor
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Dubya's ballyhooed "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" ,
Ah, ad hominem attacks are the refuge of the true thinkers of this board.
Ted Kennedy (D) sponsored the bill, W signed it.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:42 am to Salmon
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Yet, my 12 year old daughter and all her friends read more than me and my friends did as kids.
They all consume books. They have their own little book club and all. We have to fuss at my daughter for bringing books to dinner.
Another example of either I live in a massive bubble or the internet is lying again.
Or a bit of both.
There's a solid chance that you either modeled reading for her at some point as a "priority" or you taught her at a young age that reading and comprehension was a priority. And as a result, she's ended up around like minded kids who share that interest.
And honestly, it doesn't take much to do that. Simply having your kids put the electronics down for awhile and focus on activities that require comprehension/reading instead.
The video in the OP isn't wrong though. I run into it working with kids in therapy. It shows up there as well when trying to work on things like emotion regulation and understand what/why we feel what we feel.
This post was edited on 2/9/26 at 10:43 am
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:43 am to Klark Kent
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Who is this directed at? (from
waaaay up on that high horse and all)
Anyone who blames teachers and schools for the shortcomings of their children. There ain't a horse involved. Teachers and schools have kids what, 7 hours a day, 180 out of 365? If a child is not learning at the pace the parent wants it is the fault of the person who has the child 365 days a year, 17-24 hours a day, the kids parent, not the school. Placing a child in a school does not give parents a pass to not educate and train their child. If a child is not learning and does not have a learning disability that is not a problem of the state it is a problem of the parent.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:44 am to Salmon
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Yet, my 12 year old daughter and all her friends read more than me and my friends did as kids.
2 of mine are like that but the other one is too busy honing his dexterity on video games so he can either be a musician or welder.
Unfortunately, I'm serious.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:45 am to junkfunky
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a musician or welder
Ole boy gonna break some strippers hearts one day
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:52 am to LemmyLives
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ad hominem attacks are the refuge of the true thinkers of this board.
Dubya bragged about that slop as an "accomplishment".
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January 8, 2002 — George W. Bush signs the landmark, bipartisan No Child Left Behind education legislation into law. The 74 takes a look inside how this bipartisan effort on behalf of America's students came about, and its legacy in the era of No Child Left Behind.
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Ted Kennedy (D) sponsored the bill, W signed it.
Dubya bent the knee for Uncle Teddy and the Dems. Wadda team!!
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:54 am to Lonnie Utah
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Maybe if she spent more time teaching and less time dyeing her hair, the kids might know something...
She’s an eighth grade history teacher, they should know how to read and have basic comprehension skills well before they enter her class.
It starts at home. I have teachers in the family and they can tell you within a couple days of getting a new class which kids are read to at home/engaged with and which are just put in front of a tv so mom and dad can do whatever the hell they want.
Now is this a new epidemic? No, but it’s still an issue that persists.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:54 am to AwgustaDawg
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Anyone who blames teachers and schools for the shortcomings of their children. There ain't a horse involved. Teachers and schools have kids what, 7 hours a day, 180 out of 365? If a child is not learning at the pace the parent wants it is the fault of the person who has the child 365 days a year, 17-24 hours a day, the kids parent, not the school. Placing a child in a school does not give parents a pass to not educate and train their child. If a child is not learning and does not have a learning disability that is not a problem of the state it is a problem of the parent.
I don't disagree at all. This is all accurate.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:57 am to GreenRockTiger
warned Eagle
--sounds like a Native American name
--sounds like a Native American name
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:57 am to Salmon
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Yet, my 12 year old daughter and all her friends read more than me and my friends did as kids.
They all consume books. They have their own little book club and all. We have to fuss at my daughter for bringing books to dinner.
Another example of either I live in a massive bubble or the internet is lying again.
Or a bit of both.
You are in a bubble. Your kid likely also goes to a very good public school with within a city that has majority upper middle class kids or she's going to a private school.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 11:01 am to Lonnie Utah
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Maybe if she spent more time teaching and less time dyeing her hair
Hair color aside, she’s 100% correct.
I think most kids will do as they are taught. At least, they’ll try to do what they are taught. The problem is, years ago parents and teachers were mostly on the same page. That isn’t true anymore. Lessons are not being reinforced at home.
Kids are raised on social media, and that is how they are taught. The ICE protests? Most of that is taught on social media. It’s a collective dumbing down of our country, which results in uneducated parents, and sometimes clueless teachers. The protesting is laughable, not because of their beliefs at the age of 16, but because they will believe whatever garbage is on TikTok. These kids aren’t interested in the whole story, only what is fed to them in under a few minutes.
Single parent homes, absent fathers, kids being raised by a screen. That’s the problem.
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