Loading ...Those early years in school are very important and when their most receptive to learning if it’s a good school environment, parents shouldn’t miss out in helping them after school. Parents can no longer trust the schools. If they are not proficient by third grade at a third grade level maybe even second they’re going to fall behind from there on.
I think one of the problems was when phonics came out years back. They treated sight reading as a bad thing. Like it’s bad to see a word and recognize it and have to sound it out instead. They thought it was such a great idea but I don’t think so. For one children don’t start out with big words right off the bat they need sounding out. They can work with them but if those words aren’t repeated d over and over while a new one is added when they slowly recognize the words all their doing is pulling teeth. It’s been down hill ever since. They mentioned the kids are having a problem with comprehension. Well if there so busy sounding out every word they read of course there not going to remember much about what they just read. Then they doubled down by doing the same in math. Instead of memorizing addition subtraction and times tables they have them fill out empty boxes. Sometimes parents can’t even figure out what they’re doing so now the kids need calculators.