Is this where we're headed?
kspenmoll 😱 2w
dabbe Besides Covid, another reason I retired from teaching was the fact that our district adopted a reading program that just had the kids read parts--even of short stories. Read the section, analyze. Read this section, analyze. No wonder they walk out hating to read! Where is the reading of an entire novel? Or even a short story? I just couldn't do it anymore. 😞 2w
Bookwomble @dabbe Functional reading: we need workers who can understand written instructions; we don't care about the workers' intellectual or emotional enjoyment of a text, nor their personal development. 1w
dabbe @Bookwomble 🎯🎯🎯 And we want those reading scores on state tests to improve, so #teachtothetest!!! 7d
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