Is our children learning?
Is our children learning?
How scary is the lack of education we are providing our children? I’m appalled by the fact that today’s High School Students are learning what I studied in the fourth and fifth grades, and graduate without being able to write a complete sentence.
This week’s news is approaching terrifying. Hempstead, N.Y. school district, with a 2012 graduation rate of 38%, and a superintendent who earns $300,000 a year, released their summer reading list.
“The summer reading list for Long Island’s Hempstead public school district has more than 30 typos and errors, including assignments of Maya Angelou’s I Know Why Caged Birds Sing, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gypsy, Charlotte Bonte’s Jane Eyre, and George Ornell’s Animal Farm. Parents are told, with extra commas and various other crimes against grammar, “In September 2013, your child, should return the completed worksheets, to their teacher for reading credit.”
Reading List: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/reading07112013.pdf
Some errors on just one page: http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/summer-reading-list-2.pdf
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