In my last post I wrote about the need for parents to help their young children acquire basic literacy skills before beginning school. Yesterday, while meeting with a school staff, I learned that for more and more of our students this is not the case. The teachers at this school told me that there is an increasing need to provide extra help to students who are behind in this area. And while it is the norm for public schools to do what it takes, it raises the issue of how we can meet the learning needs of all our students when some require a lot of extra help.
Our reality is that our students do not fit into a tidy package. The expectation that we will meet the needs of all our students is fair; it is one that all of us at KPBSD embrace. But this expectation also needs to be tempered by the reality that not all children have a stable, supportive home that helps to make their experience at school relatively smooth. I don’t write this to whine or make excuses. I do so to share the reality of our task as a way to preface the need to say thanks to everyone who works so hard for our students. Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving
In my last post I wrote about the need for parents to help their young children acquire basic literacy skills before beginning school. Yesterday, while meeting with a school staff, I learned that for more and more of our students this is not the case. The teachers at this school told me that there is an increasing need to provide extra help to students who are behind in this area. And while it is the norm for public schools to do what it takes, it raises the issue of how we can meet the learning needs of all our students when some require a lot of extra help.
Our reality is that our students do not fit into a tidy package. The expectation that we will meet the needs of all our students is fair; it is one that all of us at KPBSD embrace. But this expectation also needs to be tempered by the reality that not all children have a stable, supportive home that helps to make their experience at school relatively smooth. I don’t write this to whine or make excuses. I do so to share the reality of our task as a way to preface the need to say thanks to everyone who works so hard for our students. Happy Thanksgiving.