Golly. The Charleston County School Board unanimously passed its own literacy policy at its last meeting. [See Literacy to Be Schools' Top Job in Tuesday's P&C.] They've discovered that schools should teach reading!
Superintendent McGinley says, "This is the hill that I'm going to die on because I feel that if we do this, if we stop the progression of children who move through the school system without reading skills, we will have done something very significant not only for Charleston but for the country."
She continued, "In addition, we're for God, Motherhood, and Apple Pie. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
Oops, channeling Winston Churchill.
Big talk. Let's see the follow-through.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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I'm kind of curious how they're going to screen kids who either are in private kindergarten or who don't attend kindergarten at all.
I'm curious as to how they'll screen for learning disabilities as well. Many of these children have the ability to learn, it's just the WAY they're being taught that needs to change.
Even when it does screen for disablilities, CCSD has too often assigned ED (diagnosed with an emotional disability) students to LD (diagnosed with a learning disability) classes. An ED group might include children diagnosed with anger management issues. The LD group might include a child diagnosed as ADD or Dyslexic. When CCSD regularly mixes these two groups together just because the students are all deemed to have a disability, they do harm to both. The reason we have a school district as large and as RICH as CCSD was so we could properly address these very different and diverse needs found within the district. CCSD isn't doing its job as it is. I doubt if their new found mission to teach reading in the public schools will be much more than for show. I fully agree with the questions raised by Clisby and Anonymous 7:13.
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