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The other key element is holding kids back a grade until they pass reading tests, rather than allowing them to progress.
by canjobear 1y ago
The other key element is holding kids back a grade until they pass reading tests, rather than allowing them to progress.
- AfterHIA 1y agoDestroying a child's social life in the name of bringing them up to a standard of state defined literacy is worse than the illiteracy. Consider Rousseau's, "Emile; or On Education." I was called a, "failing student" in school because I was sneaking off to the library to read Kant and Hegel as a teenager. I once got suspended for asking my math teacher about Godel's Completeness Theorems because it was, "smart alec'y" Please apply the golden rule to your assertions and think of unintended consequences.
- 7402 1y agoPeople who flunk 3rd grade reading do not sneak off to read Kant or Gödel. I don’t think people who leave school being unable to read are likely to end up with a very good life either.