Mr. Mann does it again. Where in the world do these claims originate? What utter nonsense to suggest the public schools have no reading instruction. No public education system could operate without reading instruction as a fundamental curriculum.
Now, it's true that many learners emerge unable to read, write and compute, but this is at least as much a function of home life and motivation as it is of the existence of lesson plans. Reading prowess, and I can attest, begins in the earliest years, but if a child born of parents who never themselves learned to read and/or write, it's difficult at best to expect the schools to remediate that illiteracy without dragging entire classes back to pre-school. There is a desperate need to remove the stigma of illiteracy and to provide separate tutoring for children too far behind their peers to keep up in their academics. But, examples of same are not indicators of a total lack of reading instruction. I think we have a school-basher in our midst. Andy Driscoll Saint Paul ------ "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, remain neutral" --Dante > From: "Barbara L. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 14:27:25 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Minneapolis Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Mpls] Is reading taught in the Mpls schools, or not? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:l. > >> But I am a resident of Minneapolis, where reading instruction isn't >> ordinarily done in the public schools. > > This is not the first time I have seen this claim on the List. Is this true? > Can we get a school board member to respond to this? > > Barbara Nelson > Burnsville, formerly Seward > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, > but the parent of all the others. > � Cicero > > > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
