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lowkey i have to stop and just look at people sometimes because they’re genuinely so illiterate that it makes me cry like how r we as a society failing to understand basic spelling and reading, it’s understandable to read shit and not understand for a bit— especially if you have difficulty comprehending— but those normal ass people reading for like a whole minute and then looking up and going ‘i don’t get it’ or spouting stuff that proves you didn’t understand it iz genuinely crazy because y didn’t you ask instead of just staring at it??🙏🙏
so erm yeah comprehension and literacy iz dying😓😓
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xX Cybbr-BB-Angel Xx
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As someone who has dipped hxr toes into education, the main reason why our children are currently illiterate is that we had a period of about 5 years where we only taught our kids sight reading and neglected phonics.
For those that haven't been in the American early education system for years, which should be nearly all of us, sight reading is when you learn how to read by MEMORIZING words, and phonics is teaching the sounds of letters so you can sound out most words. When combined, these two methods are effective in teaching children how to read, but using only one or the other may lead to illiteracy, as we're currently seeing.
It's also pretty clear - even by the outdated scientific studies that we have to use to understand the effects of social-media-related screen time on children - that when a child has both large amounts of screen time AND is neglected by their guardians, they'll likely be socially stunted, emotionally stunted, and yes, more educationally stunted than even a child that's just neglected. Sadly, most modern parents, who are the higher-class millennials and the oldest zoomers, tend to give their children devices to sate their needs while they work to keep their homes afloat. iPads while they work at home or do chores, that sort of thing.
But this isn't a new thing, not at all. This sort of pattern has been seen since the BOOMERS were children, when the television started to invade homes. The question is what can we do to get parents to parent, and also give them the time to do LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE FOR THEIR HOMES? I have no clue.
Sorry for ranting in your comments, tell me your thoughts?
boomers with tvs is not comparable to media today. instant access anywhere to hyper addictive crap vs maybe an hour of your favorite show in the livingroom. its like nicotine candies vs a coffee pot
by Joey; ; Report
Not comparable, but a clear progression of screens babysitting kids. Apologies for the confusion.
by xX Cybbr-BB-Angel Xx; ; Report
don’t apologize for the most right take i’ve seen🙏🙏 because honestly you’re so right, the method in which they only focus on one form of teaching is the lead cause of illiteracy in most schools and kids, people have to understand the point of both ways being effective but most of them don’t have the energy to teach hyperactive or random kids two different things
nd not even to mention the amount of children neglectedto ipads like i’m seeing that so much these days and sure like its a form of entertainment people use constantly but parents using it on like infants is so wrong and also mentally stunting them especially if they aren’t watching what content their kid is consuming
in all i js hate the current education system and forms of teaching, they literally r dumbing down certain things now to mae teaching easier without considering the consequences of the future of the kids, not to mention the fact that they’re all also submitting to a similar basic curriculum that borderline destroys creative processes, new ideas and culture with how some countries (like my own👎👎) no longer teach people of their own culture and traditions but instead bow down to whatever changed and most probably colonized form they have
so erm yeah school sucks
by あいこ; ; Report
Sadly, the No Child Left Behind movement was a total misstep. It was made in good faith; nothing wrong with wanting all kids to succeed and be able to graduate, but when you have people graduating high school who can't read because we're not allowed to hold them back to teach them PROPERLY, the whole thing kinda falls apart.
Sorry, parents, your kid who failed third-grade math should probably take third-grade math again. At that point, the social ridicule will be worth it for all the fundamental learning that they'll get. There's a difference between equality and equity in classrooms. No child should be carried to the finish line, they don't learn anything!
by xX Cybbr-BB-Angel Xx; ; Report
Elaborating, when I say equity in education, there should be more resources for children to get the education that fits their brains. What No Child Left Behind should have been is more funding for low-income schools, larger special education programs for neurodiversity, and actually helpful technological resources to alleviate the repetitive strains of the job from teachers so they can have more time for one-on-one connection, better training programs, the list goes on...
Can you tell I'm passionate about this topic?? LOL
by xX Cybbr-BB-Angel Xx; ; Report