If a child has made it to 5th or 6th grade and cannot read, then EVERYTHING should stop. The mandates, the schedule, the district’s ever changing requirements and strategies, the protocol, the bureaucracy, the entire system from stem to stern should stop blathering and playing duck and cover.
All energies should be focused on finding a real life solution for the students. Unless the reading issue and positive cognitive and/or emotional issues are resolved, nothing moves forward.
‘A mile wide and an inch deep’ does not constitute an education. ‘Honest’ conversations don’t fix anything unless they are…well…honest.
But, now we are entering the silly season also known as TESTING. There are NYS alternate assessments and NYS ELA paper tests. There is NYSESLAT starting on April 17 and ending on May 26. In the middle of all that we squeeze the NYS math test, both paper based and computer based. There is AP testing. There is IREADY diagnostic testing. Then we jump into the Common Formative Assessments. NYS Science Performance Assessments follow. IStation rolls along…and on and on it goes. So…I guess we won’t worry too much about reading…
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