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2017-12-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

California in a ‘literacy crisis' with children who can't read: suit

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-07 04:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The rest of the World just suffers from people who can read, but never think about what they've read.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-07 04:44|| 2017-12-07 04:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't know how to read, or refuses to bother to read, is there really much of a difference?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-12-07 06:51|| 2017-12-07 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Multicultural bilingual social justice priority over basic reading, writing and arithmetic. Insty is correct, sending your kid to public school probably is child abuse.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-12-07 08:38|| 2017-12-07 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Thank you Teachers' Union.

Since the unionization of the state teachers association, the trend line on literacy, math, and science in California have fallen off the table. That is the reason the tech industry wants to import workers from India, China, and Japan. The state of California spends a staggering 20K per student on education which is almost 10x Japan and India and can't teach kids how to do math or read a book.

The educators need to quit playing games with "new and innovative" techniques to teach reading and math. They obviously don't work. They need to dust off those old methods the ones used when California had one of the best school systems in the nation and get on with really teaching. Kids in Harlem, the Bronx, and St. Louis score higher on achievement tests than kids in SD, LA, and SF. And teachers in California are among the highest paid.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-12-07 10:20|| 2017-12-07 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Ya get what you want and work for from schooling. My three kids attended public schools in east San Diego (redneck imagery) County.
My oldest (daughter) is a Real Estate Agent, my oldest son did 5 years in the Army and is a Senior in Criminal Justice at SDSU (Dean's list), and my youngest works for a software company.

Posted by Frank G 2017-12-07 12:40|| 2017-12-07 12:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Forget colonizing space. The West will be lucky to come out of The Great Endumbening with functional indoor plumbing.

Posted by newc 2017-12-07 15:04|| 2017-12-07 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 I cannot see the disparate trendlines of coastal and fly-over country culture continue without a great, violent fracturing, or a very ugly purge of the vanquished. One or two decades at best before the great boiling-over......

Posted by NoMOreBS 2017-12-07 18:08|| 2017-12-07 18:08|| Front Page Top

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