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If Taught Properly
Further to yesterday’s posting, Ontario’s premier is now saying that Ontario set the bar too high and that it is unreasonable to expect 75% of the province’s students to be able to master the curriculum for their grade.
Here’s what the ever-popular George Bush had to say on this topic. “Some say it is unfair to hold disadvantaged children to rigorous standards. I say it is discrimination to require anything less - the soft bigotry of low expectations. Some say that schools can’t be expected to teach, because there are too many broken families, too many immigrants, too much diversity. I say that pigment and poverty need not determine performance. That myth is disproved by good schools every day. Excuse-making must end before learning can begin.”
As a reading tutor, I know that virtually every child can learn to read at grade level, if taught properly. John Mighton over at JUMP says the same thing about math. Three very important words.