Further to this recent post about the disastrous (and highly politicized) policies of the American Academy of Pediatrics, SDA regular ‘Kenji`, an SF Bay resident, posted this shocking comment:
The impact of all this BAD public policy toward our children? My 1st Grade Teacher wife just completed comprehensive testing for her kids. 60% are behind grade level and 20% are TWO grades behind. Yes … you can actually be two grades behind in 1st Grade. The kids cannot even do work expected of TK students … Transitional Kindergarten. What do they need to know? Things like words that Rhyme.
So, 80% of her students are behind Grade level. This is something like her 30th year of teaching and NEVER … EVER … have her students been so far behind. Quite literally … my 2-1/2yo grandson has better language skills than 20% of her 6yo students.
So, 80% of her students will probably never catch up to grade level. And these are mostly poor *ahem* “urban” children … who will claim that it’s the white man’s biased curriculum that is at fault. So the UNIONISTAS will demand a further lowering of academic standards because equity or something. And the divide between Gavin Newsom’s privately educated children and 80% of California’s children will widen further.
The people responsible for these policies should be in prison. Politicizing our children’s … err, YOUR children’s education and health should be a criminal offense.
Hoping an intrepid journalist, like @KimIversenShow, @megynkelly, or @AlexBerenson would be willing to explore this further!
I completely agree with Kenji’s assessment of this, via his wife…
There’s no way that primary school children should have been kept out of schools over the past 2 years of scamdemic.
Nor anyone else who wasn’t in a high risk of infection area.
I for one, could not agree more.
And it was done on purpose….
We have over the past 60-70 years created a MONSTER:
Public Service Unions of all kinds…And those of the Teaching Profession, the most strident, the most Leftist and utterly ARROGANT.
They serve no one else but themselves..and in the doing, have become arrogant and fascist in nature…go on strike and it’s always ” think of the children”…uhuh.
Putting them in Prison is the least of what I would propose….something to do with thick fossil fuels, the remains of wings and a blow torch….along with carte Blanche De-Certification for starters.
It’s obvious these people intend to turn the west into third world shitholes with the teachers and illegal immigration. That way the world wont be have and have nots, I t will be all have nots.
Until this moment he had been forced to listen while media and politicians alike told him “what Amercans think”.
In all that time they never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary American yelling back in post radio media – “You don’t speak for me.”
I see in my work, as well.
The powers that be did quite the number on these students and for a reason.
Stupid people don’t fight back.
(SEE: Canada, sheep)
O K , I am still waiting for people to catch up.
Not in this country, they won’t.
From ‘duck and cover’ to ‘cover and dock’ in one generation.
From yesterday’s thread:
Sorry for being repetitive but this knowledge must be widely disseminated:
If you are a parent or relative of a pre-school child who is in a masked day care or Pre-K setting, double down on the following: reading aloud with feeling and rhythm, teaching nursery rhymes and alliteration (Peter Piper picked a peck….), clearly enunciating the sounds of our language (the distinct, individual sounds composing a syllable or word, you don’t have to drag the word out, just be crisp and clear), and as much interactive speech as possible.” I spy” games are useful, I see something that starts with “b”. You may or may not know this, but your verbal memory, required for reading and writing, is stored in the brain as phonemes (sounds) not letter forms or images. Yes, all of these tasks are common sense and in the repertoire of most families. If you have a family history of dyslexia and other reading difficulties, then you must incorporate a more systematic, explicit, sequential, repetitive, multi modal approach, too much to go into here.
Reading is foundational to Education,
Speech is foundational to Reading.
Phonemic awareness is foundational to Speech and Reading.
Pre-K Educators, Pediatricians, and Educational Psychologists, and other experts know this. This has become indisputable over the last 20+ years, not to mention that it is common sense. Did you know that children are starting to read lips when they start babbling? Children must see your facial expressions, the movement of your lips and mouth as you speak, as well as hear clearly and distinctly the separate sounds of our language, not speech muffled by a mask. Think of how little difference there is between the sounds, “t” and “d”, or the other “brother” sound consonants; s-z, k-g etc.
Birth to Kindergarten is a crucial time for activating, establishing and networking those areas of the brain required for Reading fluency and comprehension. This is disrupted and impeded by masking. I expect the population of children with reading difficulties to be greatly increased by masking. You don’t get a do over.
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That’s a great comment…interesting stuff I for one was mostly unaware of.
Thanx..!!
Thx, feel free to share it.
Bravo!
I wonder if parents remained masked while at home.
100% correct! And it should be noted that our brilliant (sic) educators have spent decades assailing phonics based reading. They cite the English words that don’t follow phonics rules such as silent letters in ‘know’ or ‘gnome’ and claim phonics based reading is worthless. Utter nonsense. But this is what passes for professional educators today … find the exception to the rule … and make it the most important and celebrated. Like celebrating and elevating the mentally-ill “Trans” community.
Children mirror their environment.
Stupid adults encourage children to play stupid..
For decades now school has punished the brightest and provided daytime babysitting for the indolent.
Public Education has been a glorious success..
Why are we confounded by the logical results of such a bureaucracy?
Anyone noticed that most of our geniuses and self reliant folk are failures ?In the eyes of the education system.
The spark of discovery..
Not in a government institution.
“Wrong think!
Hate Speech!
Zero Tolerance!
Squawk!”
” Why don’t these children ever question anything?”
Of late the Bureaus have been blaming the parents,for the children’s ability to adapt to such a vile structure,never willing to admit that the results are exactly what should be expected,when you indoctrinate rather that educate..
But like any Bureau,their incomes depend on “Not seeing,what might threaten their pensions”.
Instead?
“There’s an app for that”.
Public schools are the same thing as public hospitals. Patients and students are a COST, not a source of revenue.
Socialism spends all its money on the bureaucracy and as little as possible on the people receiving the service. That’s how you get huge and lavish government schools filled with highly paid teachers, and students who can’t read when they graduate.
Socialism. It corrodes everything. We should vote against it. (That was sarcasm, by the way. Nobody is going to vote to cut school budgets. Just homeschool your kids. At least they’ll learn to read.)
My seven year old grandson is very bright but has a speech impediment which causes him some trouble being understood. He is in speech therapy. Both the therapist and him had to wear a mask during speech therapy. His parents told the therapist we don’t have a problem with you not wearing a mask so he can see your mouth. No, that’s not possible. He’s a somewhat timid child, but now he is quite often afraid of people out in public. I have three other grandchildren younger then him and in my opinion they have all been effected in a negative way. In some cases it has been total child abuse. And guess what, we have all, including me and my husband, had Covid and completely recovered. Even with masking etc. etc. Sometimes I briefly forget what they’ve done to us, but when I remember I get so angry I am sure it’s not good for me.
Just absurd — the therapist wearing a mask. Also terrible about how far behind kids are. Increased child abuse that is normally caught by schools is another consequence. So sad.
@LawBear, @Exasperated
I worked in the public school system during covid–the masking, lockdowns, zoom instruction, PCR testing if a kid so much had sneezed. Watching teachers and even some speech therapists morph into the Charlie Brown teacher as they attempted to speak wearing an N95 mask was dark comedy. Public health “experts” and draconian school districts have psychologically damaged a generation.
Children who had parents who would go the extra mile (or 10) did better. But kids without any support were left to figure it out on their own. And they’re still struggling–all of them–to make sense of the ever changing “rules.” No wonder behavior problems are skyrocketing.
We more or less ignored it right from the beginning. I saw my grandchildren almost every day and we carried on as normal. I’ve always felt that children need to be taught certain things at home and spent a lot of time teaching them what I could. The youngest will be four in November and talks, can count, do his abcs etc. The oldest one always had a speech problem. Waiting for a publicly funded speech therapist in Manitoba was painful even pre covid. I ended up telling my son we would help pay for private and he did attend a few pre covid. I had heard excellent things about a program in North Dakota that several local kids were attending and we were looking into going prior to the lockdown.
It made me weep when I heard of grand parents that lived in the same town as their grandchildren and had not seen them in almost two years.
“It made me weep when I heard of grand parents that lived in the same town as their grandchildren and had not seen them in almost two years.”
Oh no, on my.
It is, however, a reminder that the authorities couldn’t have gotten away with their harmful and ill conceived policies without the support and complicity/compliance of many of our neighbors.
People that believe everything that they see on the news and have had the $h1t scared out of them maybe deserve a slight amount of our sympathy? I am not totally sure on this as I have some friends that when I hear them regurgitate some of the stuff on CBC I want to b1tch slap them.