Former school administrator Mary Cantwell couldn’t believe her ears when a single mother of two confided that her first-grader had only just begun to recognize all 26 capital letters in the alphabet this year.
In explaining how her child ended up so far behind, the Pennsylvania mother described the inadequate reading and writing instruction she had received in kindergarten during the pandemic. One entire Zoom class was dedicated to finding a household item that begins with the letter “B” and presenting it to the class. There were 100 kids in the session.
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