65% Of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient In Reading

[sid]

The other data presented here are just as disturbing. Are these the kids who are going to be our future leaders and scientists? More likely they will add to our vast population of urban welfare queens and criminals.

Read the article and get depressed.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/65-public-school-8th-graders-not-proficient-reading-67-not-proficient

[dogtag]

I'm depressed enough without reading the article.
These are the people who will run things in a few years.
Isn't that something to look forward to ?

[togor]

For every spoiled kid there's at least one overindulgent parent, who had so much fun as a kid that they decided it would be more fun to be a "pal" instead of a parent to their children. It all started with the Greatest Generation raising their Baby Boomer kids and the trend compounds with each generation. Meanwhile the Asians aren't fooling around.

[clintonhater]

It all started with the Greatest Generation raising their Baby Boomer kids and the trend compounds with each generation.

With the support of Dr. Spock & his best-selling books--the first of many pediatricians to say "no" was a form of child abuse.

[RED]

Did you see the article about John Corcoran that graduated from college and taught school for 17 years and couldn't read or write? I don't have a link but Google the name and it will come up.

Great countries have come and gone as far back in world history as you want to look. In almost every instance the fall came about because Stooges gained power and they collapsed from the inside. Our Stooges are in the communal kindergarten and are just beginning their takeover. The USA will probably be a third world country in the next decade with people starving on the streets. Everybody will be fleeing the USA and seeking freedom in places where the Stooges, Fascists, Socialists, and other traitors have been kicked out... Places like Venezuela, Cuba, No.Korea, Argentina, and others that have experienced Socialism and ruled by Stooges. They will finally throw them out and make their countries great again.

Your great grand children will probably not speak American English.

[Roadkingtrax]

Something about that new nickname being bounced around at an imaginary adversary.

[blackhawknj]

How many of those kids are in single parent homes, and are just "meal tickets" for their mothers ?

[leftyo]

For every spoiled kid there's at least one overindulgent parent, who had so much fun as a kid that they decided it would be more fun to be a "pal" instead of a parent to their children. It all started with the Greatest Generation raising their Baby Boomer kids and the trend compounds with each generation. Meanwhile the Asians aren't fooling around.

for once, i absolutely agree with you.

[pmclaine]

Massachusetts rhino gov was recently touting standardized testing that showed something like 53% of 4th graders to be proficient in reading and about 50% of eighth graders to be proficient.

Massachusetts apparently leads the nation and they stated that it was "wonderful".

So in the worlds greatest nation basically half the kids not being able to read to a level of "proficiency", and I bet the bar is low, is "wonderful"?

What a damning indictment of our tax money being wasted. Our literacy rates for school kids if not in the 90th percentile should bring criminal charges.

My kid is dealing with some serious anxiety issues brought on by multiple strep infections and I have spent the better part of the last two weeks sitting in his class room just to be able to get him to attend school.

My observations during this time clearly show to me why these results are so.

[Vern Humphrey]

Massachusetts rhino gov was recently touting standardized testing that showed something like 53% of 4th graders to be proficient in reading and about 50% of eighth graders to be proficient.

Massachusetts apparently leads the nation and they stated that it was "wonderful".

So in the worlds greatest nation basically half the kids not being able to read to a level of "proficiency", and I bet the bar is low, is "wonderful"?

What a damning indictment of our tax money being wasted. Our literacy rates for school kids if not in the 90th percentile should bring criminal charges.

My kid is dealing with some serious anxiety issues brought on by multiple strep infections and I have spent the better part of the last two weeks sitting in his class room just to be able to get him to attend school.

My observations during this time clearly show to me why these results are so.

One of the excuses often used is, "it's the parents" (you saw that excuse used here.)

Okay. It's the parents. And the parents are beyond the control of the education system. Which means the education system CAN'T educate the children.

So why do we keep throwing money at the education system?

[leftyo]

One of the excuses often used is, "it's the parents" (you saw that excuse used here.)

Okay. It's the parents. And the parents are beyond the control of the education system. Which means the education system CAN'T educate the children.

So why do we keep throwing money at the education system?

that answer is so simple. it is because the liberals who have infected this country believe that the mere act of legislating something will make everything work. something isnt working, they pass more legislation and then throw money at it, even if it has no chance in hell of working.

[Mark in Ottawa]

It is really scary that the state with the highest ratings only got 50%. I would have expected the typical rate to be in the range of 85%, with the other 15% being caused by the normal difficulties encountered by new immigrants and the reality that about 5% of kids simply are not very smart. Rather than bragging that his state's students achieved 50% proficiency the governor should be firing the heads of the various school administrations for gross incompetence

[Mike-B]

If only there were consequences. Too stupid or lazy to get a job? No problem --sign up for endless welfare or 'disability'.

[gwp]

I wonder if a graduated payment plan would help? A fixed amount would set aside for taxpayer payed education. Part of the money would would be released for K-6 education, but a set of certain skills would have to be demonstrated to release money for the next step. 7-9 would be a good choice for the next step. After proficiency at the 9th grade level was proven the final amount would be released to be used as far as it would go to include state college. I think this would provide an incentive and encourage some students and parents to strive to get the best education possible. The use of on-line courses in addition to the regular classroom sessions should allow the good student to progress fast enough to get a year or two of college.

All of my grand children were able to take college level courses for college credit at high school.

[blackhawknj]

I recall one board member saying his schoolteacher wife found the teenage girls in her school were intimately acquainted with the welfare forms.
Why do we keep throwing money at the school system ? "It takes a village..." remember ?