Why aren't parents more ashamed?
I don't get it. Yes I know parents are struggling, yes I know times are hard, yes I know some kids come from difficult homes or have learning difficulties etc etc
But I've got 14 year olds who can't read a clock. My first years I teach have an average reading age of 9. 15 year olds who proudly tell me they've never read a book in their lives.
Why are their parents not ashamed? How can you let your children miss such key milestones? Don't you ever talk to your kids and think "wow, you're actually thick as frick, from now on we'll spend 30 minutes after you get home asking you how school went and making sure your handwriting is up to scratch or whatever" SOMETHING!
Seriously. I had an idea the other day that if children failed certain milestones before their transition to secondary school, they should be automatically enrolled into a summer boot camp where they could, oh I don't know, learn how to read a clock, tie their shoelaces, learn how to act around people, actually manage 5 minutes without touching each other, because right now it feels like I'm babysitting kids who will NEVER hit those milestones and there's no point in trying. Because why should I when the parents clearly don't?
Because all that is literally your job. Teachers have for generations pushed the idea they are uniquely suited to educate children and parents attempt pale in comparison. My grandmother was told she had damaged my father by teaching him to read herself and told not to repeat it with her younger children.
A school where that passes a student for 9 years and never makes them read 1 book is a failed institution
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/u/benevenstancian0 covid clearly showed that the opposite is true. The highly educated will take it up the butt with flimsy or no justification where as the uneducated will buck.
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How old are you? Because unless you're 20 you should remember people saying the same about Obama and Bush and how neither ended democracy
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Why is it always the losers who don't think people should have guns who pant the loudest about their end of democracy fetish
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Because the American liberal is nothing if not bipolar
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Good thing the Orange Man wants to gut the Department of Education then that's been forcing their shitty policies on schools for decades, right?
The reality is that they're all to blame: parents, teachers, the government. It is absolutely insane that these kids basically can't read but keep getting passed onto the next grade. Parents should be ashamed, but notice that these teachers never wonder why the kid's previous teachers (you know, their coworkers) failed to teach him how to read and yet kept passing him anyway.
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What, like when brown/black kids reject narratives of racial grievance and vote Republican?
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Idk man parents
should 
definitely be ashamed
The fact that buying an iPad for a toddler
is normal 
in a lot of America 
is very disturbing 
and depressing 
And I didn't learn
to read in elementary 
school 
lmao, my parents 
taught me and I showed up to school 
already enjoying reading 
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I didn't learn to read from my parents or teachers, I learned from Morrowind.
!nwahs my little 8 year old butt spent months sat in front of the TV with a dictionary so I could look up all the words I didn't know. I pronounced fatigue fat-eee-goo until my teens.
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You didn't learn
to read until you were eight??
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I could but I was bad at it.
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Teachers must be destroyed, but there is definitely some problem with parents. I shouldn't see nearly as many families with children at the mall at 1 PM on a random Tuesday as I've been seeing.
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As always comments that are anything but a circle jerk are at the bottom of the thread
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If you haven't already taught your kid to read by Kindergarten you are a shitty parent and probably r-slurred yourself
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Yikes, that post just reeks of white privilege. You are there to LISTEN to bipoc children, not judge them.
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This is my beef with the whole "consequences" thing Leftists keep spouting. Who the frick are you? No, seriously.....who the Frick are YOU to determine a) who should face consequences and b) what those consequences should be? Just like Youtube, Twat-face and the rest, you are Nobody. They are Nobody. No one voted you or the Twat-face Cancel Warriors into office--no one appointed you, Zuckface or the rest of the White Cis Male Patriarchy Brigade to a seat in a court as Judge, Jury or Executioner. You should never have even been given the notion that you have, any way whatsoever, the Power to determine those things. That's what the frick is wrong with society and cancel culture as it stands right now. Everybody wants to think they're fricking SPECIAL and have some Right to determine who should speak, about what they should speak, and how they should speak it.
I'm categorically against any antisemitism, Nazisms, racisms, misogyny and trans hate speech, and I think my record of posts on this site proves that. But I do NOT have the right to shut someone else up. That's not my fricking place. I an argue with them--I can disagree--I can post until the cows go home....but God did not come down from High and anoint me (or you), or anyone else, the power to cancel or shut people up just because I disagree with them.
Ya'll need to learn your fricking lane and stick to it. The Right to Free Speech is for speech you hate, not for speech you agree with. Go sit the frick down somewhere until you realize your place and learn how to stay in it.
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