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Alabama lawmakers give passage to 3rd grade reading bill: must read to move to 4th grade
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:18 am
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:18 am
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Very good idea, IMO. If you get behind early on, you will most likely stay behind and never catch up. This way, you can at least be on par with others in the 4th grade and can go from there.
Now it's just too much just "pass the kid on" BS, which in the long term never helps the child.
inb4 no one will ever move past the 3rd grade in Alabama.
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Alabama could become the next state to require third grade students to pass a reading test before moving to fourth grade. The bill would require third graders to meet reading benchmarks beginning in the 2021-22 school year. The House of Representatives on Thursday agreed to a Senate amendment. The bill now goes to Republican Gov. Kay Ivey. The bill also spells out initiatives to try to boost reading scores. Those include summer reading camps and providing local and regional specialists to work with struggling students.
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About 16 states demand third grade students pass a reading score threshold or repeat the grade. Supporters said statistics show students who can’t read on grade level will struggle throughout their academic careers. Opponents said the bill threatens struggling students with failure but does not adequately provide funding to help them.
Very good idea, IMO. If you get behind early on, you will most likely stay behind and never catch up. This way, you can at least be on par with others in the 4th grade and can go from there.
Now it's just too much just "pass the kid on" BS, which in the long term never helps the child.
inb4 no one will ever move past the 3rd grade in Alabama.
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Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:21 am to East Coast Band
I bet that reading test will be so easy, the average 6 year old could pass it.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:23 am to East Coast Band
Good. And all these people yelling there isn’t enough funding, how about you read to your kids at home like a responsible parent does?
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:24 am to East Coast Band
If a kid can't read by first grade, their parents failed them.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:24 am to East Coast Band
Glad it is at the local/state level. The Feds have no business in education.
On the other hand, its Alabama. How many adults in Alabama can pass the test...
On the other hand, its Alabama. How many adults in Alabama can pass the test...
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:25 am to East Coast Band
The fact that this bill had to be written is pitifully sad.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:29 am to East Coast Band
Bama recruiting is fricked
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:32 am to East Coast Band
Great idea, but it doesn't fix shitty schools or teachers.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:32 am to East Coast Band
5star football players are fricked
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:32 am to East Coast Band
To get to 9th grade you must have a minimum of 9 teeth.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:33 am to East Coast Band
Mississippi already has this in place. My middle son had to take it this year but no worries these coon arse transplants are bringing up the averages in our school.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:34 am to East Coast Band
quote:If only schools had inexhaustible money, from everyone except those employed by the schools of course...Another tax should easily fix this. Oh, let's issue another bond too! Tack on a few fees, a surcharge here, a millage there. Almost just right, a few million more is all it takes!
Opponents said the bill threatens struggling students with failure but does not adequately provide funding to help them.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:36 am to East Coast Band
They should drop history from elementary school and double up on math and reading.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:49 am to East Coast Band
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Very good idea, IMO
really? ya think? That a law needs to be passed to address this says volumes about the horrendous state of education in the US in 2019.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:52 am to East Coast Band
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Opponents said the bill threatens struggling students with failure but does not adequately provide funding to help them.
No, it threatens struggling parents with failure in a way that should wake their arse up.
I imagine this would also focus the efforts of teachers on the students most behind (or who have already needed to repeat), so don't give me any crap about resources. The kids that have been reading since 4 or 5 will be ignored for half the year while the teacher and assistant buckle down until Timmy can read a Dick and Jane.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:52 am to East Coast Band
A lot of kids going to be stuck in 3.50 grade.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 7:55 am to East Coast Band
We should do the same thing here. It’s amazing how many kids are illiterate and advancing in school.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 8:10 am to East Coast Band
Everyone should spend a little time in small town Alabama specifically Black Belt towns: Demopolis, Greensboro, Marion, Uniontown, Tuskegee, Selma, etc, etc. I tell people that we have third world areas of America and they don't believe me.
Posted on 5/31/19 at 8:16 am to East Coast Band
I hope older peeps are grandfather claused. Otherwise Alabama is going to have a ton of really old third graders!!!
Posted on 5/31/19 at 8:18 am to East Coast Band
Alabama football will be signing more 21 year old freshmen besides Calvin Ridley in the next few decades.
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