“Parents, y’all can’t be backseat drivers about your child’s learning.
You have to help reinforce it at home.”
“I teach seventh grade, they are still performing on a fourth-grade level,"@qbthedonsaid.
Odion then describes a parent-teacher conference night she had when she taught kindergarten in 2013.
“First of all, a lot of people wouldn’t come.
You know, teachers know how that is,” she admitted.
But she did have a parent come with their daughter, who she calls Tia throughout the story.
So, I’m telling the dad that she barely knows 10 letters.
And he’s in denial.
‘Nah, you know, she knows her letters.'”
“I literally said, ‘What letter is this?’
She said something that’s not it.
Put another one down.
‘What letter is this?’
She don’t know it.”
“Now the dad is looking at her like, ‘Tia, you know this!’
and I’m looking at him like, ‘No, she doesn’t!’
Odion continues, “Her brother!?
Was in sixth grade.
It is not up to the kids to teach younger kids.”
Odion continued with another example at her school.
This is what kindergarten reading looks like.”
“A fifth grader only knows how to read these little bang out of words.
It literally boggled my fucking mind.
I truly believe I would not have had the achievements I have today without that extra year.
You have to help reinforce it at home.
you might’t tell me you might’t read to the kid.
It takes 10 minutes to read to the kid.
No one is that busy.”
She told BuzzFeed, “There has always been students performing below grade level.
What has changed now is that teachers are having a larger scale of students performing below grade level.”
She added, “And the government and institutions are banking on that.
It’s going to be the people that don’t know that they are getting screwed over.”
