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February 10, 2023 11:12 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.”

–Thucydides

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    1. I guess because Republicans are incapable of reimagining their political party, instead they reimagine themselves. I expect we'll see more of this, in addition to Santos and Luna. Of course Trump was the master fabulist about his own life – "successful businessman," blah, blah . . . 

    1. Reading is Fundamental:  Annie E. Casey Kids Count report says Fourth-graders not proficient in reading 2017:  65%

      Causes are complex:  for example,

      Twenty years after No Child Left Behind, the federal law designed to close the socioeconomic achievement gap, the gap persists.

      That has held true despite billions of dollars spent expanding charter schools, raising learning standards, toughening accountability laws, supporting new teacher training programs and developing a new, nonprofit educational support system.

      One of every five children in the U.S. has dyslexia, ADHD, or some other learning, thinking or attention difference that impedes their ability to learn to read.

      For children of poverty or trauma, the number is one in three.

          1. Yes, Pear, I will agree that the non-conservative, far right, isn’t really interested in kids, what with its focus on drag queen readings, the non-existent threat of critical race theory, the “imminent threat” of LGBTQ, and its lack of concern for kids getting “groomed” in church.

    2. I cannot believe that I agree with PP.

      I learned to reed and right in 1954 using the heinous "look say" method with Dick and Jane. I can only surmise that it was a Communist plot. And, why did Jane never blow Dick?

      While I had no problems learning,  my dyslexic brother was tortured using this method.

      Everyone promoting "whole language" should be taken out and shot.

      My eldest grandson learned to read using Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons before entering kindergarten.

        1. It works well for some students whose brains are wired that way, Phonics, ESL strategies, “ chunking” word sounds, and other reading strategies work well for other learners.

          One size does not fit all.

          1. Yep …

            and EVERY method struggles with kids who don't have a set of adults BEYOND the classroom making certain kids have adequate health, clean water, good nutrition, a stable home and school, safe/non-traumatizing environment, and reasons to read.

    3. In an increasingly hickified nation where a disturbingly large percentage of grown-ass adults believe the war deity of a small band of Middle Eastern hillbillies created the universe 6,000 years ago, that statistic can most realistically be described as unsurprising.

    1. So, anyone who wants larger scale academic progress should just favor teaching CRT. Again from Chalkbeat:

      A handful of recent studies have found that students are more engaged in school after taking classes that frankly discuss racism and bigotry…

      I mean, there's a study for everything. Cherrypicking only provides one ingredient for the pie. Nattering negativity accomplishes nothing. It is not the critic who counts…the credit belongs to the man in the arena. Et cetera, et cetera. Carry on!

  1. So what happened at the two El Paso County GOP votes yesterday? Gazette says Tonkins won. Did they vote for her at the official meeting also?

    And why is this story not being covered by any local news media?

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