Non Readers promoted to the next grade level?

That's right!! you have good points in here. Parents and teachers should work hand in hand... not only the teachers would be striving hard to help the child learn how to read.. parents should help too. I think, teachers are bored when kids don't learn how to read?? lol.. that's why they let them pass? hehehe.. I hope not. thanks for the reply

What you say is true, to a point, but I have friends who are school teachers and they are very frustrated. They have curriculum that they are supposed to teach but then they turn around and tell the teachers to stop and help them study for the standardized achievement tests. Schools with high scores on these get more government funding. Learning to pass these tests take time, so the teacher are forced to send a ridiculous amount of work home, with little time to explain it. Parents who don't know the work or are limited in time, amongst other problems, are forced to teach these kids and work with them. I can tell you that my dance students, sometimes have as much as up to 4 hours of homework. That is so outrageous!! How are these kids supposed to study, have down time from school, be a part of extracurricular activities or have after school jobs, which I was able to do all of the above and still maintain high honors in school. That was not so much to my effort but that school was about learning to learn, not to learn to pass a test for funding. My one friend, who is a school teacher, is quitting public schools and going into tutoring. She is so frustrated and she is an excellent teacher. Many parents have been turning to home schooling and cyber schools just to get their kids out of public school and the mounds of homework. It's not like all that homework is helping. Homework means nothing if the child does not understand what they are supposed to do. That's why places like Sylvan learning schools are popping up all over the place because parents are so frustrated for their children and their struggles. Funding for arts is bad, too. Kids who can't learn to be creative will never be the future inventors of products, medicines, and other things that we need in life. Imagine if the artificial heart had never been discovered because the man who created it had not learned to be a thinker. They are teaching kids less to think and more to just memorize. My husband's first cousin, who was a teacher, retired and is back to teaching, says the changes are incredible and horrible. He is hoping to work in private schooling as there it's not as much of an issue as in public school, but most kids attend public schools. I just don't see a bright future for US public schools, for the most part. It's a scary thought.

there are homeworks to do and kids are expected to do these works at home. however, parents are not around to follow up and monitor their kids; maybe they are still out there working. i had students before who helped their parents by working for a pay after school. thus they had no more time nor energy to study at night. poverty is also a factor in the low school or reading performance off the students.

You are exactly right!! I agree with you/ But it is the responsibility of the parents to teach their children to be responsible in everything that they do. Teachers are just following up what the parents started at home. When it comes to reading, the parents also should assist their children, not putting all the responsibility to the teachers only. I won't agree for the teacher to let the kids passed without knowing how to read. however, if the kid is in his class for more than a year and yet, don't know how to read.. that is something terrible. thanks for replying!!!

Oh!! really!! that is bad!! I could not believe too that here in US there are kids who are in 5fth grade who can't read? What in the world is happening? yes, I agree, we can't blame the teachers if they are trying their best to help the kids learn how to read. But taking it for granted is bad. Well, you are also right!! the administrators will also do something, to help the kids learn how to read Like a special program? Well, thanks for sharing this facts.