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there are also a lot of pedagogical trends in the past decade-plus that are making it harder and harder for kids to like... read sentences, absorb them, relate them to other sentences

My mom was an elementary teacher and said at some point they were told that phonics were Out and not allowed, they had to teach some other reading method...and the kids couldn't grasp it. She kept teaching phonics and was asked why her kids were outperforming other classes. I do know that there's a lot of churn in the ed consultant/philosophy field because there's a) never enough funding for what schools (or kids) actually need, and b) always a profit to be made.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 17:10 (two months ago) link

i volunteered in my kid's third grade class and part of my duties involved leading reading circles. there were kids who could read well beyond their years, some who were par for the course, but most of them simply couldn't do it. and lots of kids were simply so tired, barely awake, and many of them would be not doing their homework, they'd be up late playing first person shooter games or watching tv (this is based on what they would tell me in these reading circles or when i'd try to help with some work.) i think part of it is w/a lot of parents now it's just simply easy to not spend time reading with kids at a younger age, and to just give them devices or gaming systems to keep them occupied.

omar little, Tuesday, 1 October 2024 17:19 (two months ago) link

We read out loud in class all through my high school English classes, tbh. I don't think we ever had take-home reading assignments even in the Olden Days. That's why I hated English so much--it was murder on my ADD when I already read the whole textbook in Week 2.

Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 1 October 2024 17:23 (two months ago) link

Saw a "once the supply chain is fucked" (and phones are done) novels will be read again take.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 09:50 (two months ago) link


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