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Do you know how many times schools blame students and parents when a child doesn't learn vs how many times it looks at its own shortcomings? There is a study by Dr. Galen Alessi from Western MI Univ. Fifty school psychologists were asked what factors were responsible for a child's learning difficulties, looking at over 5000 cases. Guess how many times they responded it was due to curriculum, inappropriate teaching practices, or school admin factors? The answer: ZERO. That's right. NONE. It was the never the school's fault, it was the student's or the parent's fault. And don't get me started on this supposed school employee referring to a student as an idiot. Seriously? Grow up. Link to article is in comments.

Excellent, accurate article. Well worth a read. "Only after we have wasted years of the students’ schooling do they finally gain access to small-step, direct teaching—the way it should have been taught all along. This is no way to run an education system. We must stop using explicit instruction as a remedy when it should be standard operating procedure."