Yes, our ‘education premier’ McGuinty has done absolutely nothing about the poor reading.  What’s is baffling is that parents are happy to pay hefty amounts of tax dollars into the system, and then do the educrats’ work for them!  No wonder we can’t fix the problem!

“There is no excuse for schools that don’t teach their students to read, and it is a scandal that nothing has changed in 20 years.” And prior to the report, the education system could continued to praise their instruction methods in the 3 Rs of whole language, even though the outcomes of the students, it was obvious that a large percentage of students were not competent readers. After the report, the education system continued to used their reading instruction methods even though much of the reading instruction and by extension the writing instruction had been confirmed by the science, to be inappropriate for the vast majority of children learning to read and write.

Stairway to Reading registrations exploded because parents of 2012, are very concerned with the instruction quality concerning the 3 Rs. It is what they see in the work of their children, and their ability to read, write and do numeracy well. Their concerns are ignored for the most part at the school and board level, leaving many of a parent without the options to instruct at home. Nor do parents have the influence and power to change things at the school level, and the only options are to take on the responsibility or accept the offerings of the public education, who have more or less abdicated from teaching all students to become competent readers and by extension competent writers.

But the public education system is too busy looking in the mirror, asking the mirror who is the greatest in all things education. Time for a new mirror…..