Letters to the Editor: TikTok star's literacy saga makes some wonder: How do schools fail struggling readers? (via latimesopinion )
In the 1940s, I was in a Los Angeles public elementary school. Because I grew up in a Spanish-speaking barrio, our teachers thought we could not be taught to read, so from kindergarten through second grade, we just sat there day after day doing nothing except getting into trouble.
On a field trip, we walked to the local library and got our library cards. After that, I devoured every single fairy-tale book on the library’s shelves.As I read about James, I shed sad and angry tears for his struggle with reading throughout school and happy tears as he found success in his 30s, because he wants to read with his baby.
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