High school kids not being able to read?

It's because the schools don't care about our kids. Get 'em in, get 'em promoted, get 'em out. Schools are a business, sad but true. They don't want to pay extra help, and they sure don't want to do it themselves. I had to homeschool my youngest for 3 years until we could afford to move out of that school district. They wanted to put him in special ed classes because he didn't do his homework. Imagine that, a sixth-grader blowing off his homework. Bet that never happened before. Now my boy is in 10th grade, in high academic classes exactly where he belongs. The schools don't care about anything but the money they get from the government and their precious jocks that bring in the ticket & concession money for their sporting events. Sick, but true.

There are really many high school graduates who cannot read well. Nowadays many youngsters do not concentrate on their studies. They devote more time for what they call gimmicks, enjoying here and there, and seem irresponsible of what would be the future for them. Everything begins at home so the parents should inculcate in the minds of the children to study. Basic education is important for all of us and reading is a basic requirement in life even in the olden times because things were written. Primitive attitudes should be gone. We are now in cyber age. The government of course play a very important role in providing good educational system. They should perform their functions effectively. Most of all, the person concerned is responsible to himself. He must strive to learn. But as observed, many become happy go lucky not minding what will happen tomorrow. The best teacher is the Holy Bible. The religious leaders play the most important role in morality development. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Evangelists should keep on preaching the Word of God. Faith comes by hearing the Word.

I hate reading, It was a punishment for me to read outloud and be critised for each thing I sayed wrong so I gave up on reading. also 67% of my classmates could not read a standard non-digital clock whihc is sad. My Aunt had to teach me that in High School.

This will not happen in Singapore because we have examinations, since elementary levels, to identify pupils with learning difficulties. My relative, who is 9 year old, was identified to have dyslexia symptoms, i.e. unable to read, write and spell though he is perfectly normal in other areas. He was advised to attend a special school for dyslexia children as he was unable to cope with the mainstream studies. There is also a compulsory elementary school-leaving examination that enables screening of students who are not ready for high school education.

Simple. The government rather spend money on bombs than education. So there for you have uneducation kids running around. Your future president is going to an idiot.

yeah, i agree with you, i think this is all because of the overpopulation in schools. it would be better if there are enough teachers to handle and teach the students but no. i guess this is due tio the small income that teachers have i guess the government should put more importance on teachers and have enough budget for their salary. and also enough budget for schools and education development.

The main reason for this is that the teacher these days are more concerned towards money and promotion rather than letting the kids absorb knowledge IT isnt there fault yes, some kids might be dumb but they arent that dumb that they cannot prolly read All the blame goes to the system the school and the teachers!

That doesn't make a whole lot of sense because these days kids have to take so many standarized tests that u think people would pick up if someone couldn't read.

i do not think all children are like that, but in some schools they may be so, but i've seen some really good schools and children very disciplined.

Part of it is the attitude of no child let behind...which instead of giving children the tools to educate themselves has turned our schools into mills pushing graduates out the door yearly. When my children graduated from high school over 50% of the kids in their class had a reading level below their grade level, 70% had a comprehension level even lower than that. Today it is even worse. Perhaps we do need to introduce smaller class sizes, perhaps we need to remove computers from the class room until the children can actually read and comprehend the sentences they are readng. It has come to my attention that the vocabulary available to second year college students is less than the vocabulary I was expected to have by the time I was 12, and not much higher than the one my grandchildren have at the ages of 13. It is frightening to think that while every child is entitled to an education that the quality of that education is severely lacking.

I'm sorry to hear that but it's horrible. Children should know how to read the moment they stepped out of grade school I guess. School system is the one responsible for that.

I believe it's because teachers are becoming more lenient and pay less attention to the kids. A lot of people in my high school cheat left, right, and centre, and nobody EVER catches them. There are some kids in my class who constantly cheat and who bring the teacher gifts and perfume and anything else along those lines during every test. I think it's ridiculous!

that's a really sad story. they go to school and yet they don't learn anything. there must be something wrong with them or maybe the teachers. not really sure if there should be someone to blame. i guess you can help your classmates by teaching them somehow.

children are now s days not giving important to studies these days rather than to other things .this is wrong.even they dont respect the elders .these qualities will make them a dull human being.and due to these reasons they dont try to be good even in later or high school days.

Wow that's very disappointing to know that people are getting diplomas and not being able to read... what are they going to be contributing to our generations?

I wonder the same thing. I do not understand hopw this kids keep going to higher and higher grades and cant read. I think it is sad.

That is very sad to know for at that stage they should really good reader. I agree that maybe the over populated on school affects more on the standard of education.

Kids with learning disabilities often don't get the tools they need to learn. I agree that overcrowding and limited budget is probably a big part of the reason for that. Having said that, I'm always suspicious of studies that claim to prove things like that. I know that when the recent Conservative Ontario government wanted to create a panic about the "crisis in the schools" they released all these reports that showed how terrible Ontario students rated against similar studies in other provinces. What they *didn't* say is that they included test results from children of recent immigrants who had not yet learned to speak or read English. I know about this because one of the schools in my neighbourhood has the largest population of recent Portuguese immigrant children in Canada. The staff were *furious*.

poor school , poor children

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