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Jessie, I read this article. It brought to mind my classes last week. Our school only has 10,11,12th graders, so you would think that they could spell. I could understand a mispelled word once in a while, but as many as two or three in a sentence is a little hard to understand. A lady from the Army came to the school the other day and asked for the students to write letters to the troops for Thanksgiving. I was amazed at the skills of these students, although their intentions were wonderful it looked like second grader's work. I had to read the sentences two or three times just to get the meaning of them. This brings me to the News the other day. The story was about second graders being shown a film of an actual child birth. HMMM, I guess there are more important things to be taught in Elementary schools than reading and writing. Maybe we could start placing blame on the curriculum and what is being taught and not placing the blame on High school teachers who are trying to catch these students up for eight or nine years of being taught very little. Lets get away from the Status Quo. I hope I spelled everything right, remember I am just an Automotive teacher.
Something needs to be looked at VERY CLOSELY by ALL of us...this is scary especially for the future of this Country....I often worry about the kids i teach....
Thanks Jessie, this confirms what I see almost everyday. My students seem to think that drawing on their papers is more important than correcting their mistakes. The art on their papers is amazing, while the words written on their papers are almost unreadable. Again, I believe that kids can do what they want to, they just have to want to. --Riley
Jesse, After reading the article our future don't look to bright. Why don't we focus more on preparing our kids for the future. I know that other classes are helpful like math, science, and history. But I don't think that reading Romeo and juliet is going to feed some family.
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ReplyDeleteJessie,
ReplyDeleteI read this article. It brought to mind my classes last week. Our school only has 10,11,12th graders, so you would think that they could spell. I could understand a mispelled word once in a while, but as many as two or three in a sentence is a little hard to understand. A lady from the Army came to the school the other day and asked for the students to write letters to the troops for Thanksgiving. I was amazed at the skills of these students, although their intentions were wonderful it looked like second grader's work. I had to read the sentences two or three times just to get the meaning of them. This brings me to the News the other day. The story was about second graders being shown a film of an actual child birth. HMMM, I guess there are more important things to be taught in Elementary schools than reading and writing. Maybe we could start placing blame on the curriculum and what is being taught and not placing the blame on High school teachers who are trying to catch these students up for eight or nine years of being taught very little. Lets get away from the Status Quo. I hope I spelled everything right, remember I am just an Automotive teacher.
Something needs to be looked at VERY CLOSELY by ALL of us...this is scary especially for the future of this Country....I often worry about the kids i teach....
ReplyDeleteThanks Jessie, this confirms what I see almost everyday. My students seem to think that drawing on their papers is more important than correcting their mistakes. The art on their papers is amazing, while the words written on their papers are almost unreadable. Again, I believe that kids can do what they want to, they just have to want to. --Riley
ReplyDeleteJesse,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the article our future don't look to bright. Why don't we focus more on preparing our kids for the future. I know that other classes are helpful like math, science, and history. But I don't think that reading Romeo and juliet is going to feed some family.