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Originally Posted by teh603
No surprise. Most of the middle schoolers where I work are still on a first or second grade reading level. Some of them have even lower comprehension- to the point where they can read a passage out loud and then have no idea of what they just read.
Trouble is, that's exactly how most parents like it. Their precious little runts don't have to do any work, and get passing grades just for not demolishing the classroom or murdering the teacher. When the kids don't pass a fairly simple reading test, they demand the principal fire the teacher instead of asking if there's anything they can do to help the kid pass.
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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Originally Posted by BWinmill
Having students choose their own books isn't practical. (Would you accept it if your boss told you to go home and do six hours of unpaid work each night? Why should teachers who refuse to do so to read all of those books be called lazy?)
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Originally Posted by teh603
That assumes they have six free hours each night. A most schools expect teachers to put in a certain number of unpaid hours each night anyway.
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OP was a link to an article about what kids are reading in and out of school. First followup blamed parents. I wondered if schools didn't play a role. Then we have a flurry of excuses.
Where my taxes go to school, there are teachers and administrators. Among the administrators are curriculum coordinators. Curriculum coordinators do not create curriculum. They select it. So, some fresh minded educator could pick the top ten content appropriate publications each year and develop a lesson plan for that. The curriculum coordinators would only have to deliver the lesson plan to the instructor who could present it in the classroom.
It's easy to see why kids are not reading very much. It's too much work...for someone.
PS teh603 if you are a teacher, you should consider a career change.