Thousands leaving primary school unable to read - Inside Wales' reading crisis | ITV News
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- "Keep reading and it will click eventually."
This is the true story of how thousands of children in Wales are being left behind by teaching methods that have been proven not to work.
An ITV News investigation has found that Welsh primary schools are still encouraged to teach reading in the wrong way.
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I struggled to read as a child despite my parents always reading to me. So my parents took me to a retired teacher who taught me how to read by sounding out the words instead of the techniques that were being taught at the time. English ended up being my favourite subject and I grew up loving to read. I am so grateful that I was given this opportunity, all kids should have this regardless of background.
I was taught to read by the sounding out method, I taught my younger brother and then taught all three of my children that way. I can't see why you would do it any other way. My oldest was refused 2 school places because I'd already taught him to read phonicly, and at that time the dreaded 'Letter land' was the rage. How do you go from Annie apple and Bertie bee to reading! A whole generation was let down there, it's awful to think this fads still go on. On the other hand,a bit of parental input makes all the difference!
Failing to teach the most basic tool of phonics??? This makes no sense.
maybe some of the parents "need" to know when having kids theres more than just "conception" etc..........
Most of them are immigrants
I only started to read in my final year of primary. I went on to be a book freak. Whilst all my friends were watching cartoons after school I'd be curled up in bed reading books and ended up getting top marks in my English/Literature GCSEs
Everything happens in its own time. The problem isn't when they get to learn it's if they do or if the system just gives up on them. One thing I really cannot stand is this obsession of these dictated "milestones" and if a child falls out of these timings everyone starts flapping. My eldest sister was able to read and write by the age of 3. I fell within the average and my youngest sister started talking at the age of 4 and she started reading at the age of 9. We were all raised in the same house, we all hold equally successful jobs. This nonsense is giving unnecessary anxiety to kids.
Wow, Mother only realising after year 6 that child cant read???????????????
She probably has a learning disability and the mom's probably known for a while but wants to keep her daughter's dignity intact by not spilling her personal medical info on the internet. But having the reading level of a toddler at age 11 is not normal, even just natural learning should get a child further than that. That's a special needs child.
Where are the parents???? You should not entirely blame the school system!!!
If the teachers don't know that all early reading needs to be phonics-driven, you should certainly blame the school system. And the teacher training system. And the Welsh Government.
Because its mainly the new Welsh that make up these stats
I learnt to read by being given lovely kids story books, school did nothing for me.
I learned to read before starting school. My parents never tried to teach me. How hard is it to see a *STOP* sign and not put 2+2 together?
Where are the parents?
Umm parents are not necessarily teachers they are more likely working their asses off for minimum wage dead end jobs
The parents need to take control.
11 years old reading as 4 , she can not read her timetable (that must be numeric also) they did not see it earlier.???
I don't know how any parent can be totally unaware their kid can't read, write or do basic maths, I really don't know how that's even possible. Parents really should be overseeing, and playing a big part in their kid's learning.
I also partly blame kids use of smartphones as well. For example all you have to do is speak into the google search and the AI will read out the most useful result, no need to spell or read anything. I bet if you asked most kids 'when did you last read a book', most would not be able to tell you. Sad, very sad.
It shows how little quality time they spend with them. That would make me question their motives for having kids: money perhaps? Child support benefits maybe?
I am a 12 year old girl and I can read I don't live in Wales I live in England. I don't think that smartphones are really the first thing to blame after teachers here. Firstly, I think we start to become shaped as readers at a very young age because young children tend to pick up things like that quickly. That being said, I think younger ages are when we learn the most things about reading and as we become older we improve on our skills. So because we are so young when we begin reading the use of technology is very different at that age then when you get to my age. A lot of parents set screen time limits and most children will be playing educational games. I think we need to turn to government and parents for this one.
Just my perspective I thought some people on here might want a child's point of view
My son is 18 now, but we always read a bedtime story to him every night from when he was very young to when he was old enough to read for himself. He grew up surrounded by books as both my husband and myself love reading. We made it our mission to know exactly where his learning was up to as we were totally involved in his school life. At the end of every school day we'd ask him what he'd learned that he didn't know when he went in school in the morning. It was just a fun way to keep on track with his learning.
@@sophiaT-i3g Sounds like you have good parents and good literacy skills!. Well done you!. You sound like a really smart kid. School is so important for you kids, as much as it might be tough sometimes, do try your very best to stick at it because your education is the key to your future.
Also some kids have a reading age which is higher than their year group, so they miss out on being challenged. I think the school system should be more flexible when it comes to things like this as well.
Do you agree that smartphones should be banned in schools?. I think they should be turned off during lesson time, but some kids have massive responsibilities like they are carers etc, so they should be allowed providing they do not interrupt lessons and are not used during class time.
@@rabbitsonjupiter6824 Ahh that's great, I wish all kids had parents like you. Reading is a real joy, I don't know what I would do if I couldn't read. I am 38 years old now and I still enjoy getting engrossed in a good book. If you have a good imagination, you can bring the book to life in your mind, which I love to do!. I enjoy all kinds of books, specially those set in the past or future!.
This is why children shouldn’t allow to go to the next year if they don’t pass their exam as in Belgium and France and others countries and this will challenge them.
In my country of origin it is based on grades - sometimmes it works, sometimes it doesn't tbh
That is insane, and just further proof of declining standards, tech overload at an early age, etc. I started reading about 3 years old, myself, just picked up one of my storybooks, apparently, and started reading out aloud.
I was the only pupil who went to my primary school who could read and write on enrollment.
But ALL pupils in my class could read within the first year of school.
I dread to think what kids will be like in 20 years time.
Probably brain dead blobs 😂
Same here with reading at 3 for me. But I'm old. No social media back then.
This is it! If we don't read to our children,make it a pleasurable activity why would they want to? If it's left to the school it's just another chore. And screens just spoon feed pap,so why bother. I read a recent report about children starting school not even knowing how to 'use' a book! Trying to run their finger over the page instead of turning it! I didn't know whether to believe it or not until one of my teenagers laughed and said they'd seen adults doing that 🤦
It’s not the teacher’s fault, the kids are out of control - they have NO discipline. You want to point the finger? Point the finger at the establishment that confuses them and the parents that don’t discipline them to have proper manners and respect.
Kids are no different anywhere on Earth, yet they behave in Kenya, they behave in Japan, they behave in Switzerland but misbehave in the UK? Ask yourself why
Pictures and context? I used phonics, back in the early 90’s! I’m dyslexic, my mum ensured that I had a tutor. The mother needs to pay for extra help. Her daughter needs help immediately! I grew up in North London.
I was taught how to read by phonics. It is the basic method in my country of origin (Poand).
Some parents aren't doing enough, it can't just be up to the schools. At that age everything learned at school needs to be backed up at home. Learning difficulties are one thing but if your child is not dyslexic and they get to the age of 11 without being able to read, what were you as a parent doing when they were 6,7,8,9,10? You should be reading with your child from the time they start school at 4/5 with age appropriate books, flashcards , phonics exercises etc. Having said that, Welsh teaching needs an overhaul too if its so widespread.
More like parents are to stuck into worrying about how they look and posting on social media. Nothing to do with the school
Actually using the pictures to tell an oral story by the child is creative .. yes it shouldnt help to read difficult words as this can cause confusion.. like it says .. but using pictures is NOT old fashioned .. i hope schools really tackle this! Very worrying ! We need love of books .. love of reading .. phonics .. and seeing reading as a whole process
Growing up in Zimbabwe my parents introduced us to the public library at a very young age. I remember being excited about borrowing new books each week. I had to write a summary of each book and read it yo my mom after work as she prepared dinner. Any new word had to be written down and meaning found out using the 'prized family dictionary' 😅. I couldn't wait to own my personal one. I loved reading, I enjoyed imagining how the rest of the world functioned. I know, I will encourage those reading habits to my kids. It shaped us. My parents set the foundation.
Dyslexia also so common and so undiagnosed.
I went the doctors and got a prescription for daily sex
If you raise a child whilst teaching them two languages at a time, it is likely it will take longer for many of them to be able to read write and spell properly. This happened to my friend who was raised with English Arabic and French.
Could this be the case with Welsh children?
probably, someone I was in college with went to welsh schools for primary and secondary struggled to spell some words despite also having forgotten all the welsh. Maybe they need to teach basic english such as reading starting from reception/year 1 instead of year 3/4 as is allowed currently. The problem is likely compounded by welsh being a very phonetically written language as well so you basically only need to learn the alphabet and then you can read most welsh words
They're not taught in both English and Welsh. They're taught in English, with Welsh as an additional language rather than a secondary medium.
Is the problem worse or better in other bilingual countries (Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg ....)? I'm guessing that you are a hemiglot.
Lazy parents, dropping your child off at school is not where education ends.
I agree. My wife and I taught our son most things at home (including reading, writing, maths, science) and so by the age of 3 he had a good academic foundation. My parents did the same with me. The only thing to expect from a school are socialisation skills and revision (because the core teaching takes place at home). People in the comments who blame the government or schools need to be quiet.
@@AbsSh4 You taught your 3 year old "reading, writing, maths, science"? I can't stop laughing reading that.
@@benu_bird Whilst I appreciate you found it amusing, you clearly do not realise that well respected prep schools have intensive assessments and exams for 3 year olds. With the intense competition for places, one needs to be well prepared.
@@AbsSh4 Instilling intense competition in 3 year olds is disgusting. If you feel the need to perpetuate that system, maybe look at yourself. I don't think any school that does that is worthy of respect. Not knowing how to read by age 12 is horrible. So is what you are proposing. Not amusing at all.
@@AbsSh4 your poor kid her mental health probably on a decline.
I was possibly taught those outdated teaching methods and yet, this old git can read. Is that really the problem or, is it parents failure to engage and read with their children. A societal problem? A parental problem? Not a teaching problem?
perhaps each case is a myriad of the various issues you provided as possibilities in question
one thing,three things,which ones,why etc etc
Learning does not stop at the school gate…. Unless you want to allow defunct and corrupt political agendas to craft your child’s future
My daughter mispronounces her vowels when I read with her due to the exclusively welsh pronunciation she learns in school. For example, she'll say the I in the word hit as EE. She'll pronounce the word bun as bin. And don't get me started on the letter Y. She's getting there with our help but it must be really confusing for her. Where I live, primary schools are welsh only. Great for proliferating the language, not great if you want a high standard of reading in English when they get to secondary school.
Don't just blame teachers. Parents play a part
Parents and teachers.
This is also a parent issue too 100 percent!
If my child is falling behind because the school is lacking then I should be teaching them as well to make sure they’re illiterate atleast.
I'm sorry, not the fault of teachers? That's like a history teacher saying they don't understand the need to examine sources. Teachers should know better, the courses/degrees they took should say this stuff week one.
But individual teachers have to follow systems set out for them by higher authorities, whether they like them or not.
The phonetics for English, and the phonetics for Celtic languages, are *very very different.* And frankly, incompatible. And perhaps it is *that* that we all need to address, together as Civil Society, and/or as Teachers, in the Celtic Nations.
For example:
The vast majority of Irish children, teens and adults can't pronounce their indigenous Language properly due to a far too widespread culture of Anglophilia, especially among Politicians & Dept of Education who have implemented decades upon decades of *far too successful Anglophonia* in Schools.
The opposite of Wales?
The British tried as hard as they could to drive the Irish language into extinction.
Also, decades of Anglophilia? Only 40% of adults in the South can speak Irish, 2% using it daily. It's also a mandatory subject in the South's education system. The North is even lower. The 2021 census suggested about 87.5% of adults in the North don't know any.
Except with the North, a little under half our population are descendants of British planters. James I sent them here specifically to drive out the natives and assert more English control, and they are loyal to the crown (known as Unionism). One key figure in Irish history is William of Orange, who invaded Ireland to help Parliament remove King James II, and since the natives (Catholic, as opposed to the Protestant planters) were Jacobites, William invaded Ireland, eventually defeating them. The Unionists will tell you something along the lines of that they were saved from "popery, slavery, knavery, brass money and wooden shoes."
My point is, in Northern Ireland it's not necessary Anglophilia because about half of the population are basically British. Plus, Irish is a popular second language, especially among Catholics.
Home schooling has doubled across Wales over a decade which doesn’t help kids at all.
There’s likely more reasons though and it’s a failure of regulators over the past decade to get schools to this position.
There's no excuse for not adopting best practises really IMHO why wouldn't you ?
Many parents (not all) homeschool their children to claim benefits from the government.
A Canadian study by Sandra Martin-Chang found structured homeschooled students coming from families with lower incomes and mothers with less education, were academically superior to their publicly-schooled counterparts.
Homeschooled children were 2.2 grade levels (over 2 years) above their public schooled peers in reading.
I think parents choosing to home educate are just trying to give their children the best education which is sadly no longer found in most public or private schools.
Homeschool kids on average do better than school kids.
Reading is one of the main activities a parent should do with their child. If they can't read, it's the parents' fault. 100%. Lazy parenting is rife. Imagine blaming the school that your 11 yr old has the reading age of a 4 year old. 😂🤪🤪🤪🤪
Parents fault
This is a problem in the US as well. Too much time is spent on testing, then teaching to the test. Teachers do not have time to go over the basics. Admin gets angry if teachers take too long on a topic even if the students need that extra support. Also it is impossible to get kids extra help or tested for special education services until they are in third grade. By then it's too late.
This is happening all over the world. Not just Wales.
Crisis in literacy functionally literate
You can’t lean English just by sounding it out because a lot of English words don’t even sound like their written. And they are also inconsisten. A basic word like knife does not sound like it’s written. What’s the point of having a silent letter when you’re supposed to sound the words out.
Sounding out is absolutely necessary for learning to read in English, despite all the variations and inconsistencies in the pronunciations of letters.
Sounding out (phonics) is *the* foundation.
Learning the *finer* nuances that you've mentioned is where memorisation (of silent letters and non-English words like 'rendezvous', for example), and context (like newly recognising by sight a word you have heard but never before seen) come in.
Reeding is eezy. Speeling is the diffycult bit
Reading and spelling come together.
idiocracy in real life
They need to start learning Welsh as first language
Only 15% of Welsh people can read, write, and speak Welsh.
I'm also from Northern Ireland, and while Irish is a pretty common second language here, English is absolutely essential. This is the United Kingdom - the official language is English, and putting up language barriers will make everybody's life harder.
From what I know as well, Welsh people want to stay in the Union, so I highly doubt the language is changing any time soon.
England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, plus Ireland, no this kind of problem?
Parents are to blame... Children should know how to read before they go to school... No excuse, either take the child to a library or buy them a book and make them read to you every day. They will get used to the words. It will become second nature.
You read to them. TVs and screens have no place in a child's bedroom. I really miss having small children to snuggle down and read stories with every night, what a perfect end to everyone's day 🥰 when we have shown how pleasurable reading is,read the same favourites over and over again, wanting to read for themselves is as natural as taking the spoon from your hand when feeding them..some sooner, some later, but they want to read! Then we show them the letters and the sounds. It's a joy teaching reading,I really don't understand why some people make it so complicated and expensive!
Parents nowadays would rather have their children glued to their tablets
This whole report states that the cueing system of learning to read - learning words through pictures and context or letting them “click” - doesn’t work.
Having children just pick up a book and try and figure it out before they’re literate is what got the children of Wales into the problem they’re in now.
This isn’t the fault of the students, teachers, or parents, this is the fault of education boards not explicitly making phonics the standard in Welsh schools.
If parents teach kids phonics at home that’s great, but parents shouldn’t be blamed for not being aware that most schools are not implementing the right lessons for their children.
So all parents need to teach children by the age of 5 how to read? You don't learn how to read by being taken to the library or owning a book. You don't "get used to the words." Did you listen to the report? The problem is the teaching method.
@benu_bird With over a decade of teaching experience, I can certainly tell you that a child should know how to read BEFORE they start school. There will be a few such as this child that has real difficulties...
You’re one of those people, believe everything the ‘news’ tells you, without critically analysing it... They’ve taken 1 child with severe needs, taken one aspect stating a teaching method, put them together and made a report, and fools believe it... If a child is dumb, look at their parent...
The 'powers that be' are more interested in teaching them Welsh.
wow the word shocking is overused…but this is truly shocking
Parents should be teaching their children to read as well.
I could read at 4. Kids today are probably palmed off with TikTok on their phones instead of reading with them. Lazy parenting.
I am surprised, because electronics could easily aid learning how to read and write!
There is a great podcast called **Sold a Story** where this scandal is covered in more detail.
I just learned about this recently, and I’m completely flabbergasted.
@paddydaley6808
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Labour have been in charge of education in Wales for over a quarter of a century.
"Nothing to do with me", says Education Secretary, Lynne Neagle.
This is reality! Your own money can educated higher qualifications or stay same position of your inspiration of your grandma!😁
"Parents fault" okay, and? Schools should be a safe place for all kids to learn and leave generational issues
Phonics isn’t new. It’s the method I used 30 years ago when I taught my child to read before she started school. Why aren’t the parents onto this problem and taking more responsibility?
I wouldnt worry. Learning English will be almost irrelevant in this country in a few years time as nobody will speak it.
As someone who is dyslexic and wasn’t reading at any decent level until the age of 15, it’s disappointing. I don’t feel England does enough for us and singling Wales out may not be the right approach.
So. Much. More. Can. Be. Done.
With ebooks existing these days they should be taken advantage of, bigger text, coloured backgrounds, line spacing separation on majority of apps. Personally I started from digital animation apps with text bubbles instead of voice audio, if I wanted to understand the animation, I’d have to read the short text bubbles.
I’d love to see adult books with illustrations and big text but I’ll just keep dreaming 😂
Words mean different things depending on the program words the system installs on the devices or internet repeaters depending on generations and phases
Oh dear, Labour controlled Wales 😮
It's hard to believe that it could have got so bad. These poor kids have been badly let down . There always seems to be someone trying to reinvent the wheel. I remember hearing years ago that phonics had gone out of favour and I couldn't understand why. I learnt to read this way back in the early 70s and pretty much most of my classmates had reading ages above our actual ages thanks to phonics.
What? Phonics has been around forever. Every teacher knows - teach phonics. I don’t know why this seems to be a news flash.
Such a huge reading problem? In Wales?! As a teacher in South Africa, I'm not feeling so bad now. Though our problem here is comprehension with English as a second language, not reading itself. Are these children primarily English or Welsh? Is English a first or second language in school, and how do the language structures differ🤔...?
Poor kids can't even read their language 😄
It reads as mutch is worth mutch reading mutch
School fails at a lot more than just reading, how many years did everyone learn spanish, french, welsh, irish, german or whatever language? I spent 5 years learning spanish in school and yet understood literally nothing and also couldn't say anything beside "hola". We need to revaluate the entire system, millions of hours are being wasted, millions of hours where people could master actually useful skills with the right learning method. After I left school I decided to teach myself spanish and in less than 6 months I was reading novels. You might say "oh that's cause you studied it for 5 years in school" and you couldn't be more wrong. I've learned more languages since and within a week or two I'm usually way past the level I was in school. School gave me next to nothing, you will learn more in a week of self study than you will in a decade of school. Art's another example, I spent hundreds of hours in art class and yet saw no improvement, the teacher just sat down and told you to draw something, there was no deliberate practice, literally all art is, is deliberate practice, its all about the perception of lines and shapes, literally all the teacher had to do was explain that basic concept and encourage us to aware of it when drawing, its incredibly simple and yet they failed catastrophically. There's a lack of organisation, planning and critical thinking behind the methodologies used. If I had to teach a 5 year old to read, I would have them reading roald dahl level novels in a month, reading is an extremely straightforward skill, its all about building a foundation by learning the alphabet and then practicing sounding out words, eventually the sounding out becomes subconscious and effortless.
Edit: just watched more of the video and they're doing exactly what I said (phonics). How can the school system be so collectively braindead as to not realise that thats how people learn to read?
Millions of adults who went through the UK school system left school functionally illiterate. I’m not sure reading method matters much when it’s clear it isn’t just Welsh schools failing children. We home educate. My child has a reading age five years above her age because we use a program that meets her individual needs and teaches her to be able to decode absolutely any English word. Listen to Sold A Story podcast it’s American (we lived in the US and now in UK) but many US and Canadian schools use the guessing method and it’s insane the damage done to kids confidence and so many left unable to read.
yikes...ouch,i remember reading full books at least an inch thick of pages by 3rd or 4th grade and i was considered slow in that regard....
i remember reading a book called son of the mob in 5th grade.
I'm the chair of the PTFA at my kids school, ( not Wales, West Yorkshire) My observations are a lot parents simply drop their kids off, pick them up and ready don't know the functions of a school or how the curriculum operates. The teachers, try so hard to commute with parents we even have an app which regularly posts updates on how parents can help their kids with learning etc, the school is always hosting additional sessions to get parents involved etc. Yesterday I went for a phonics introduction session for my youngest, it was well advertised and highlighted the benefits of why parents should attend, out of class of 22, 5 parents including myself attended. I'm on good terms with the Head, and the school as a whole really pushes parental involvement in education, but it seems to fall on a lot of deaf ears.. Its a good school, who knows what its like for those in special measures etc
If the teachers can't see that the method they're using isn't working, and they aren't trying something different, then there is a real failure at the level of teacher training. Teachers should be taught not only to spout a given curriculum, of just follow a workbook. They should be taught to evaluate whether what they're doing is working as they go along. It's absolutely crazy to say, "The teachers don't know this approach doesn't work." Obviously, the administrators and the department of education is hugely at fault, too, but teaching is supposed to be a highly skilled profession.
I learned with phonics in the 90s. So why aren't Wales doing it now?
The best and most in demand schools are those with a good parent/teacher association, the waiting list to get into those schools are very high.
1:58 The teacher can't pronounce reviewing correctly. How do you expect the kids to learn.
I could hardly read when i was 11. I had the reading age of like a 5 year old. The children
should be allowed to learn by reading, something they enjoy and are passionate about.
Them also being able to question themselves about whether, they are right or wrong when reading, is important for self development.
Wales being Wales. What else is new?
I like the pictures
Phonics is everything!
My wife and I taught our son most things at home (including reading, writing, maths, science) and so by the age of 3 he had a good academic foundation. My parents did the same with me. The only thing to expect from a school are socialisation skills and revision (because the core teaching takes place at home). People in the comments who blame the government or schools need to be quiet.
Exactly! As the Chinese say, home is the first school.
@@rabbitsonjupiter6824 Excellent saying. So true. And perhaps that's why the Chinese are succesful but thousands of British (or in this case specifically thousands of Welsh) kids cannot even read at the old age of 11.
@@AbsSh4 I think you're exactly right.
How can parents let their children down so badly? It most definitely is their responsibility to ensure their children are literate. My son knew at the age of 6 what the apostrophes in words such as 'can't', 'won't' etc. were for. I'm a book-lover and wanted to pass on to him my appreciation for the written word 😊
Social media 😂😂
Phonics are bt
Teacher shortage
4:29 i have a learning disability. When i was at primary school, i was reading well above my reading level. And im from a poor background. Parents need to get rid of smartphones. The majority of kids use smartphones but they use the speech function. They dont do anything educational. They watch basically brainrot. All this skibidi toilet needs to end.
You will see the difference once smartphones are removed from the picture
"All this skibidi toilet needs to end."
lol, agreed.
I kind of half agree, I think a large part of why everyone is so literate today is because of the internet. Think about how many books worth of text you've read over the years on social media, in comment section and on forums. Smartphones have the opportunity to help kids get in thousands of hours of practice reading, we just have to encourage them to use their phones for stuff other than brainrot..... or we could just give them books.
Anglo-Saxon
Thats because their education system confuses them with a boring dead language
If you raise a child in a bilingual household, they begin to sort out the words and become bilingual themselves. The same in schools.
This attitude will break up UK 🤦🏼♀️
@@ItsZombiefied The proof of the pudding is in the eating
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Can they read Welsh?
To be fair, Welsh is significantly easier to read
I don't excuse teachers who don't know their craft. Didn't they study various methods of teaching in college?!
It's not a matter of individual teachers, who have to follow the educational policies of the school and the system, whether or not they agree with them.
This enrages me. When my boys were at school they were using 'shape recognition' to 'recognise the shape of the whole word' Clearly utterly useless when trying new words. I completely ignored the school and used the old fashioned 'phonics', understanding the sounds letters and combinations make, just as I was taught by my Mum and at school. Both were reading simple words in reception and could sound words out and became prolific readers because they had the tools to read anything. I cannot believe teachers my age dont know any better and what kind of nonsense are the new teachers being taught? How can the government not act, or the universities that supposedly teach you how to teach, when its very clear their 'new methods' aee unsuccessful. Utterly appalling.
The 'new way' of doing division...long winded and not less confusing. Teaching times tables as an answers sequence without saying how many times the number is also stupid. I will forever know how many 8s are 64 without having to run the sequence of answers and counting on my fingers. Its just a series of rhymes learnt by repetition so its not hard!
I've got dyslexia and I wouldn't trust teachers to know how to teach their students properly.
I went through the education system many years ago (I'm 49 years old), but still after all these years I still wouldn't trust the teaching profession.
I'm not targeting my comment at the Welsh education system in fact I grow up in Bristol.
It’s not about children’s inability to read. Kids should be spending time in nature, running, exploring, and being close to their mothers.
The current system pushes them to start school earlier and earlier, while parents are pressured to work more. This isn’t benefiting the children; they often feel like they’re failing in school, and this no good for emotional health.
Most children, especially boys, are ready for academic learning around age 10. We need to reconsider our approach to education and development.
Not everything is about the workforce in order to push this system further.
Just look at the impact-this system makes us think we are progressing, but where are we really progressing? Look at the decline in health and climate change. These are clear signs this is not the right path.
At least they learn how to explore their gender and sexuality.
I blame Covid and 5g radiation
I blame overdependence on buttplugs
How was your education?
@@matthewbaynham6286 I blame Greta
This is not a student and parent problem...not even a curriculum problem...this is a teacher problem...teachers are inadequate to teach these days...ask me how I know....
The future is voice interaction anyway
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Invited hosts of germs to near.
These minstrels bold, with dance and song,
In colonies, they grow full strong.
Their feast of sugars, naught but glee,
Doth breed a brew of dread degree.
For acid flows, as in a stream,
And weakens teeth that brightly gleam.
This plaque, it thickens, coats the crown,
A siege that brings the strong tooth down.
O man, beware the plaque's cruel art,
With brush and floss, take up thy part.
Lest nature's pearl, so white, so fair,
Be lost to time and foul despair.
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In this form, dental plaque is personified as a silent invader, growing from the sugars we consume and weakening the teeth through its persistent presence. The solution is to combat it with regular cleaning, as the hymn calls for action with "brush and floss."