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This should have been required 100 years ago. That, and mandatory minimums being spent on EVERY public school in the country
Real solutions are needed and large classes of 30 to 37 kids should be illegal in elementary schools.
Does that apply to undocumented English language learner citizens?
That is no good, it needs to shell up the whole educational system. Children also who excel academically need to be looked after. Some may be book intelligent but may not be emotionally ready to advance to the next or skip a grade
40 years later, but it's a start.
homelessadvisor What?
The system is backward . Instead of allowing teachers to teach to the limits of thier ability the system wants teachers to teach a limit set by a book .Instead of testing teachers they test students to see if the book was followed Thinkers of great intellect need not be teachers
Who in their right mind would follow Florida’s educational system?
If they don’t teach the way children learn, holding them back ten times won’t teach them. We have a literacy problem in the US, and blaming children for not learning won’t fix it.
Does any data support this practice? Have students who have been held back benefitted appreciably from repeating 3rd grade i.e. improving by a standard dev or more? What practices have been implemented to improve reading scores and ability? What methods are being used to assess?
Parents have final say. The child might then be placed instead of promoted. It's always best to intervene early (Pre-K / kindergarten) if the deficiencies are glaring.
Why not just have ungraded K - 2? When you become a good reader, on you go to third grade.
should be held in Jr high and high school. kids can’t read nor write. Texting will be new SOL test
NOT RCSD in Rochester !!! Kids are not even retained in 7th or 8th and move on to high school. YUP !! Zane then they blame the 9th grade teachers for the high failure rate !!!
Is this why your president is still in eighth grade?
This is abuse. They will inevitably learn so don't abuse them just because the teachers just learned to read.
I made mistakes as a mom but taught my son to read before kindergarten. Kids just need to be taught in a way that works for them...... and have access to books.
People keep mentioning the students and teachers, I'd bet kids who have a hard time reading or can't read by the 3rd grade don't have parents who stay involved.
Enroll Trump!
If trump had gone to school in Florida he'd still be in 3rd grade.
Yes, but they can be “good caused” based on test scores taken from other tests adopted by districts.
So how did realDonaldTrump graduate college? He still can't read. . .
PJBradley4 What if we spent less money on testing and more money ensuring free, high-quality preschool is available to every child? Kids need 1,000 hours of being read to before kindergarten. Many children aren’t getting enough literacy readiness at home.
It seems important to me for everything in America today. Hopefully the rest of the states in America will wake up. But I do know the issue it is called ILLEGALS who in many cases can't speak or read a word of English that Democrats want it that way.
When I moved to Florida they had this ridiculous class called “intensive reading” it was taught by elderly teachers that were spoon fed curriculum for us to pass the state exams. The entire experience was frankly a waste of time and made a lot of students feel stupid.
No, no, no this is not good. Retention does not improve anything and reading proficiency means nothing without looking at the whole child and all of their skills.
This is why I left North Carolina. Because 2nd graders couldn’t read, but kept getting moved on.
Finland doesn’t even start teaching reading UNTIL third grade and they rank highest in the world. Quality of teachers, compensation, class size.
Do these schools test for dyslexia? Do they even know what it is? Repeating a grade will not make them better readers. What a f____ing ridiculous thing to do. Lumping all poor readers into one catagory that is penalized for a brain that sees differently should be outlawed!
How about instead of punishing the students, schools evaluate the teachers and get rid of shit teachers and pay the good ones more money. Higher salaries attract better talent. There's a reason the saying goes 'those who can't, teach'
By what I am seeing in many Twitter posts, that might not be the worst idea.
I'm Florida? How many 27 yos are still in 3rd grade?
This is Trumptardicide!
It's always about the kid, isn't it?
Should be in every school and every state. Social promotion is destroying generations.
What does this headline say? I went to school in Florida.
Teachers unions, taking a break from politics, like:
But they are qualified to be President.
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