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they’re going to get bored in anything else,” he maintained. “I wasn’t a brilliant student when I was in school but I studied when I got home," Jenkins added.
It's a rule of the school system that students can’t thke their reading books home. Bloomer explained.
This is the first year that parents have been made aware that their children were reading below grade level, said Nancy Reeve. “Then I find out it’s not only my child. It’s two-thirds of the class."
“Are you placing the blame on teaching methods, books or what?” asked Board member Arthlinda Quaintance.
“I don’t know where the blame belongs,” answered Mrs. Reeve.
Dot Irvine reported that she'd requested retesting after her child was put back a year in reading and had been told by principal Graham Spencer that the tests were not available and the school had no money to buy additional copies. According to Mrs. Irvine, the tests were found months later in Spencer's file cabinet after a teacher remembered they’d been put there. Finally, she added, her daughter was retested months after the initial request.
New Reading Books
Part of the problem with the drop in reading performances can be attributed to switching to a new reading text book series, according to Lynn Baines. The new series is more difficult, she said, and unfamiliar terms used in the new books have added to transitional difficulties.
Is there a possibility that many of the students now considered below grade level might be on grade level with the old reading series? asked Mrs. Quaintance.
“It’s possible,” Mrs. Baines acknowledged. It’s also possible that the publishers of the new reading series “may revise their grade level determinations but we can't hold out for that," she said.
"I'm very happy that parents are out here tonight
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