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"Public school teachers with unacceptable English pronunciation and grammar are being protected by the Obama Administration, which has forced one state to eliminate a fluency monitoring program created to comply with a 2002 federal education law."
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Teachers should speak English properly. That's not what the story is about. Some right wingers want to ban anyone who has an accent, however slight it is from teaching. You can be fluent in a language and still have an accent. You can even have an accent and be capable of proper pronunciation.
Once some collleges started offering remedial reading and writing classes to their incoming freshmen I knew then that something had gone haywire in the public education system.
Children do learn to read, but they don't practice what really makes them fluent at it - sitting down and actually reading a book once in a while.
My youngest daughter really struggled with reading. I did some tutoring at our local Literacy Council and took her there for testing and we set up a program for her. It helped a lot, but I also had her read a book a month of her choosing and give me a report (orally) on it. She earned money towards her clothes allowance that way. It did improve her reading, though she never really acquired a true love of it. TV and You Tube are too much competition these days.
Last edited by Mrs. Skeffington; 09-16-2011 at 03:05 AM..
I offer that it is due to a lack of parent participation.
[read to your kids, people!!]
Absolutely! My oldest daughter begged for it, because I started reading Golden Books to her as a baby. I used to read every night until I was hoarse. She was reading fluently herself at age four and was always at least two reading levels ahead of her class. I tried to read to her younger sister but she wouldn't sit still for it, that one just wasn't interested. She always had trouble with reading.
Americans are sitting and wining that they do not understand accents and therefore cannot learn their own language while being raised in an English speaking country, while Chinese learn English in China come to America and take their jobs. Ha!
Don’t forget math! If you give an young clerk extra change, so they will give you back an even dollar, they cannot do the math. They only know what the cash register tells them.
I know that our kids can think. They can operate all the new tech gizmos. They can organize their tunes. Perhaps I just question why we forgot the basics?
Something about books in pizza boxes or something?
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