re: Louisiana to consider mandatory summer school

A better idea would be a mandatory 30 hour class for the parents. Coach the parents how to support their kids education.

Bottom line on this is that too many parents don't teach their kids anything at all from ages 0-5. Nothing!

Kids show up at school as Kindergartners and don't know basic colors, don't know their alphabet, can't count to 10, and can't speak in coherent phrases, much less sentences.

You can bash teachers all you want, but you are taking the easy way out. Yes, there are some poor teachers out there. Yes, there is a teacher shortage out there because of unbelievably disrespectful and sometimes violent behavior by students and way too many administrators who lack the guts to deal with it and far too many school boards that won't back teachers or administrators.

But at the end of the day, the single biggest issue is parents. Or guardians. Or grandma. Or whoever is raising the kids. They teach these kids nothing in their early years. That old book "Everything I Needed To Learn I Learned in Kindergarten" is not totally wrong.

Most humans learn the basic building blocks of their lifelong education by the time they are 5 or 6 years old. Their success or failure from that point on will very likely be dictated by their progress at age 6.

Until kids start learning basic life skills, respect for authority and the three "R"s at home as small kids, this isn't going to get any better. In fact, it's on a rapid downhill slide statewide and nationwide.

This started with No Child Left Behind and was designed as a long term destruction of the education of this country. Uneducated, ignorant people are easy to influence, easy to manipulate and easy to govern.

Private schools are about to explode in this country. People who care about education and safety are at the point that they realize that the public education system is a sinking ship and there is no saving it.

As the line in "Titanic" said, when the owner of the White Star Line said, "This ship can't sink!". The builder of the ship said, "It's made of iron, I assure you it can....and will." Our public education system is made of iron, and it will soon go straight to the bottom and take a lot of victims with it.

30 hours of reading in the summer isn't going to help anyone. At all. This is throwing money at a microscopic solution to a Titanic sized problem. More wasted tax payer money and people trying to make themselves look good.

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It’s the parents.

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A good portion of it is but the school boards aren't exactly innocent here either. My wife is on her 4th different reading curriculum in 5 years. They just keep throwing money at new shite and nobody ever gets comfortable with things. On top of that, I don't know if it is the school board or the publishers but they never have the stuff ready by the time school starts. They end up wasting 2 weeks because they don't have the materials to teach with and then they basically have to learn the new material on the fly.

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the result of the state’s literacy crisis, which education leaders say they’re poised to solve

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you mother frickers don't even require homework in some schools. GTFO with your faux seriousness. You, your employees, schools, and whole bureaucracy are a joke.

If you have the means to afford private school but you still send your kids to public school you are an idiot. Public school is borderline child abuse.

More school is not the answer.

Here is what I have learned from someone I know who has overseen curriculum roll out across a number of campuses in the state. These are private-public charter schools.

It’s kind of like she does assessment and advises, but has no real authority to hold people accountable. She says that the teachers just babysit. The amount of time and effort they put into teaching is pathetic. The administrators are not willing to hold anyone accountable for fear of running teachers off.

The administrators are mostly concerned with collectin’ they check. Kids learning to read is besides the point.

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The possible adjustment is the result of the state’s literacy crisis,

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This was made worse by the idiots in power forcing kids out of school for days and weeks over something a bad as the common cold.

Cut the kids PlayStations and Tik Tok time out and make them actually learn something

Or only show them YouTube videos on how to read

It’s an extra job for parents to stay on top of homework and to read to their children at night. We use to make it part of a nightly routine and reading became fun for them. The effort is necessary.

Of course, back in the day we just learned in school and school was tough in the 50s-60s.