tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post8113646786515533345..comments2023-10-23T15:59:33.310-04:00Comments on The Newsless Courier: Education Deficit Is Not a Learning DisabilityBabbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11152952119296267993noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-85190945729513006332009-05-05T14:51:00.000-04:002009-05-05T14:51:00.000-04:00Thanks, Babbie, for highlighting McGinley's role a...Thanks, Babbie, for highlighting McGinley's role as CAO. She was all over those schools and I cannot believe (or can) that she tried so shamlessly to dodge responsibility. It was all her -- from the reconstitution of Rivers; Burke Middle, the campuses, the A+ program and failed idea after failed idea. and the PC lets her get away with it. oh wellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-37628333233439519502009-05-04T19:05:00.000-04:002009-05-04T19:05:00.000-04:00"You learn to read and then you read to learn" is ..."You learn to read and then you read to learn" is an incredible quote. These kids don't stand a chance if they don't learn to read. Shame on CCSD and shame on McGinley for pretending she's ensured students like Ridge Smith don't exist anymore. This has been going on for decades. Denial is what will cause the illiteracy epidemic for decades to come.Underdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02573993677700374193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29270672.post-91336061887733768732009-05-04T13:26:00.000-04:002009-05-04T13:26:00.000-04:00Did anyone else notice that the real question this...Did anyone else notice that the real question this long article was supposed to ask -- 'why can't our schools teach them to read?' was only asked in the headline? Teaching reading is not rocket science, but to judge by this article and the one in today's P&C, you would think it was. One after another, CCSD employees wonder out loud, 'why can't they read?' The Rev. Mr Darby,in his opinion piece last week, lauded his wife and virtually every other elementary teacher as heroic laborers in the educational vineyard. They are, if they are teaching the children in their care to read, but they are not if they had Ridge Smith or the 20-some percent of Alice Birney middle school children who cannot read. The Superintendent's defense was little more than 'it's his fault, it's his mother's fault, it's not our fault, and besides, it won't happen again because we have a coherent curriculum.' What good is any kind of curriculum if kids can't read?<br /><br />These children aren't stupid, which is why they quit school. Why play the game if you don't have the skills? It is clear from today's article about AB Middle School that reading instruction in too many parts of CCSD is totally deficient. It is deficient the first time around in 1st and 2nd grades, and it is deficient again in 7th and 8th grade when someone finally recognizes that there are swarms of adolescents who can't sound out words.<br /><br />Correge's article ended on a complete note of implied tragedy. Can this boy-father do any better by his own son than his mother did by him?<br /><br />Robert RussellRobert Russellnoreply@blogger.com