Can't Read, Can't Write
PamelaL
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Is anyone watching this? It's incredibly poignant and making me bloody cry.
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PamelaL
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She's so articulate too.
People do though, they bluff and bluster through life, too embarrassed as adults to take that step back.
Tonight is the first of a 3-parter so make sure you remember next week and the following.
How anyone can go gthrough school and come out the other end unable to read is awful and shows how the education system is failing people.:mad:
He offerd to get a top proffessional in and she doesnt want it
What a fascinating programme (and I agree, very moving).
I am a primary school teacher and have taught many children to read - including some written off by other teachers - you need to do what this guy is doing - adapt to their learning style.
I think James's problem may be that he doesn't hear the individual sounds in words (most children don't until they are taught this). I thknk it might help him if they focussed on listening to words and identifying sounds - there are loads of games to help with this - then linking sounds to the grapheme (letter or letter combination).
No wonder that guy struggled at school though, when his mother shows no support and says he won't do it before he's even tried.
she's making a meal of it, something doesnt sit right with me about her
It's repeated on C4+1 now.
Teresa proved him so right when within a couple of weeks she was in the supermarket spelling out ham and Mars correctly. And then to read a whole book. Respect girl.
So true - I was shocked by the adult curriculum shown in the programme.
I knew there were adults out there who couldn't read or write, but this programme has made me realise how lucky I am.
Also, re the young man ( I don't know his name). He sat through all those lessons in school and exams and he could barely write his own name - what a disgrace. Because he wasn't able to read, he was no doubt classed as 'slow' and instead of being encouraged and given individual help he was just left there. A blumming disgrace. :mad:
Because the education system lets them and ignores them. It cannot be a primary schoolchild's fault that they are sent to secondary school unable to read and write. The blame must lie with their parents, if they have them, their teachers and educationalists.
What a moving and informative programme. I was not surprised to learn that we taxpayers pay to teach adult immigrants to read and write in English but not our fellow Britons who have been left out of the system with no way back in. They are written off. Ironic that this should be broadcast on the day the government talks about getting the long term unemployed back into work partly by trying to figure out what they can actually do. I bet a disproportionate percentage cannot read or write.
Me too.
It's depressing to think people can slip through the educational system in this day and age.
They slip through because we just move kids up every year without bothering to see if they have learnt to read first. By the time they get to secodary school they have lost their chance as virtually no secondary school teaches children to read from scratch.
The simple solution is to identify these kids at 7 when they do their SATs and move them out of mainstream into a dedicated reading class. Holding them back a year at that stage would mean that you would have the time to address the problems they have and then feed them back into the mainstream the following year.
That's terrible
I think there are some kids in school who everyone gives up on. The main focus is on gaining SATs results and ticking boxes for OFSTED. There is more to be gained (for the school) to invest time and money in kids who can be moved forward or who are almost at the required NC level than there is in spending time and money on individualised teaching for one or two who are realy struggling and have no chance of making the grade.
The system stinks
Really feel for them, because the older you get, the harder it is to learn - that's true with any skill, but with something like reading and writing it must be immensely difficult especially to take the first step as it's such a taboo subject. It must take a lot of strength to summon up the courage to do it, but as we saw from tonight's programme the feeling of achievement is huge. I had tears in my eyes for that woman when she read the book. The fact that it was a children's book is irrelevant, the look of pride in the face of a 58 year old woman who exclaims 'I've read a book in a library' is immense.
I congratulate them and all people who make the step forward and I know realise how priviliged I am not to have been one of the ones 'left behind'.