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No, it reflects errors on both sides.It reflects a decline in parenting.
ThenToday, students in USA and Australia are mostly educated (or dis-educated?) with progressive elements -- most of them can't read properly, can't spell and are poor at maths.
ok, fair play, the abandonment of phonics was moronic. But many parents (like my wife and myself), simply taught our kids to read ourselves. All our young ‘uns could read a newspaper when they entered first grade. We also read to them and stuffed the house with books. We considered raising them our primary responsibility, and it turned out quite well despite the sad level of public education.No, it reflects errors on both sides.
Parents did not call for teachers to teach "sight reading" instead of phonics, for instance. We could have had the most well-behaved children, but being taught sight reading, there would still be a downtrend in literacy.
My grandmother, with an 8th grade education, taught her five children to read before they started school in the 1930s. Then in the 1950s, she taught me to read before I started school.ok, fair play, the abandonment of phonics was moronic. But many parents (like my wife and myself), simply taught our kids to read ourselves. All our young ‘uns could read a newspaper when they entered first grade. We also read to them and stuffed the house with books. We considered raising them our primary responsibility, and it turned out quite well despite the sad level of public education.
I would not lay all of the blame on the parents but children were their parents are involved in their lives and education do much better.My grandmother, with an 8th grade education, taught her five children to read before they started school in the 1930s. Then in the 1950s, she taught me to read before I started school.
Schools today have children for 12 years--claiming to be giving them an education--and graduate them still unable to read.
And we're going to lay all the blame on the parents?
But, you know, that's never been the general circumstance in the US.I would not lay all of the blame on the parents but children were their parents are involved in their lives and education do much better.
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Bad ASVAB scores would be a really, really bad indicator of the effectiveness of public education.What happens if the scores are poor? Do you think this will also be a tool for recruitment?
~bella
This is one of the areas that bolster my opinion that the current administration is fascist (and I'd also argue that the past administration was Marxist).There’s a lot of cuts planned for public assistance. Including the programs I mentioned and others related to food, housing and health care. The fallout will be ugly. Not only for minorities but others that fall outside of their ideal.
~bella
The nation bought green wienies in the 80s for both reading and early mathematics education.Not sure what her reason is, but have you seen the kind of math kids have to do today? The process is just silly.
My memory as I was growing up in the sixties and seventies is one we’re my parents and the parents of my friends were quite involved in our educations but I grew up middle class so not indicative of how it was for the poor. As a parent I spent time with my kids helping them with their homework and reading to them every night. This in turn showed my kids the importance to be part of their kids education and they are involved just as we were. Consequently I started reading at around 4 years old, my kids started reading at about the same age, and so have my grandchildren.But, you know, that's never been the general circumstance in the US.
Parents in the US, in general, have never been able to help their children or provide a "positive and productive environment" for learning. That's a fairy tale, gaslighting that the education industry has spun for decades...it's never been the general case in the US. Parents have been poor, parents have had to work, parents have always been strung out in the US. The best they did was to send their children to school and insist that their kids do what their teachers told them.
It is true that since about the 80s there has been a disconnect between parents and the education system. For sure, to "insist that their kids do what their teachers told them" has been a ball that parents have dropped.
As a black man who made the transition in the 60s from segregated Southern schools with deeply caring black faculties to integrated schools with sometimes uncaring (sometimes malicious) white faculties, I can see that as a factor. But the phenomenon wasn't happening only as a result of integration. Something larger was happening across the board so that today there is very little trust between parents and teachers regardless of race.
If that's the case then it's up to the parents to pick up the slack. It's no use saying "Oh dear, I wish the State was doing a better job of educating my children." You have to get it done yourself. Theres no dearth of resources out there to allow the average parent to teach their chilldren all the fundamentals of reading, maths, and social studies that they're likely to get in a properly taught government school. When the kids are given a solid foundation to build on early, then it makes everything else they do later on that much easier, and the more likely they are to end up with a decent education even if the gummint scools aren't all that good.Today, students in USA and Australia are mostly educated (or dis-educated?) with progressive elements -- most of them can't read properly, can't spell and are poor at maths.
Not all of it, but in the end our kids (and grandkids) are our kids and grandkids. Saying "woe is me, the gummint schools failed our kids so they never learned anything" doesn't cut it. Yes, the public schools suck, and they don't particularly have our kids' best interests at heart. The burden's on us, and in the end it always will be.And we're going to lay all the blame on the parents?
There you are, then! Your grandmother stepped up and made sure you knew as much as she could teach you. That's what I'm talking about.My grandmother, with an 8th grade education, taught her five children to read before they started school in the 1930s. Then in the 1950s, she taught me to read before I started school.
And that's the fallacy of public education. Like everything else the government doe, it does it half fast. Ultimately they're not responsible to anyone. In the end what the children learn, or don't, is on us. If we keep their teachers' feet to the fire, if we teach the young 'uns what we can, if we demand the kind of discipline of the kids that allows them to learn, and if we hold them to high standards and let them know in no uncertain terms that failure to do their best is unacceptable, then we've played our parts as parents. Whinging about what a lousy job the gummint schools are doing is, while true enough, of no benefit.Schools today have children for 12 years--claiming to be giving them an education--and graduate them still unable to read.
Again, not all the blame. But sitting back and whinging about how the schools are failing little Johnny helps no one. We have to take responsibility for our own kids. Raising cane with our elected "representatives" is worth the doing in itself, but the reality it accomplishes almost nothing unless you have a few million people behind you.And we're going to lay all the blame on the parents?
Yeah, teaching a (pretty much) phoneticly written language as though it was Chinese characters was less than brilliant. There was a reason why the design for written Korean (Hangul) is purely phonetic. It's just inherently easier to learnWe know about the sight reading fiasco that the education industry hasn't given up yet.
AFAIK, Asians all teach columnar arithmetic, although I could be wrong. But I know they emphasize the "drill and kill" method of teaching maths, where you do the various operations in various forms and levels of complexity until they're as ingrained as the alphabet. They also requite the memorization of the multiplication table and various rules of operations, and beat them into the students heads by repetition. They prove the truth of the old axioms that "practice makes perfect" and "use makes mastery". But ask any "academic" why we don't use their proven effective methods as opposed to our succession of proven ineffective methods, and they'll give you a scholarly recitation of "reasons " why the Asian Paradign Just Won't Work Here. Apparently American kids are just genetically unable to understand methods that actually work everywhere tjhey're used.But in the 80s the "new math" concept is also a disaster.
I've never seen that one in use. The Korean kids I've turored all seem to their ciphering the same way I was taught back in the stone age, with some minor variations. Then again I don't tutor in Maths. Too many years as an engineer rendered me unable to add 2+2 without grabbing a calculator or writing a fortran function.I have to quickly point out that a change from the columnar arithmetic we learned up until the 80s to the relational arithmetic used in most of the rest of the world
Phonics as a method of teaching reading has not been abandoned here in the UK. I found this on the Government's website:Then
ok, fair play, the abandonment of phonics was moronic. But many parents (like my wife and myself), simply taught our kids to read ourselves. All our young ‘uns could read a newspaper when they entered first grade. We also read to them and stuffed the house with books. We considered raising them our primary responsibility, and it turned out quite well despite the sad level of public education.
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