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"We know our students still have work that needs to be done. ... This current situation particularly close pandemic has raised some alarm for us, I'll say, built a sense of urgency around what our students need to know and be able to do," said Nicole Nash Moody, Assistant Superintendent at District 186. District 186 will shift its program to include more instruction on phonics to help students better understand how words are formed.
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Literacy be damned! The real question is, do they know their pronouns?
It’s not just instruction. It’s time. Many of these children are remedial and need additional instruction time, maybe even twice as much as normal students. But the schools and state mandates hours and hours per week on LGBTQP3do+/climateglobohomo/SEL nonsense. Hours and hours per weeks on this stuff. No wonder the kids can’t read. They spend half their day in a woke madrassas!