Ohio Teacher: “I Work with Amazing People”

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April 26, 2012 | 1:41 PM

For an upcoming story about the proposed third-grade reading guarantee, which would essentially require schools to hold back students who don’t pass the state’s third grade reading test, we talked with Karen Carney.

She’s a third grade teacher in the Campbell school district next to Youngstown. About 80 percent of the district’s 1,200 students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch. The district got a “B” on its last state report card.

Carney has been teaching for 27 years and helps train new teachers to teach children to read, so she had a lot to say about the third grade reading guarantee. But for now, we wanted to share with you her thoughts on the teaching profession.

The Bottom Line Is: We Love Our KidsKaren Carney is a third grade teacher in the Campbell school district.Download

“I know people have bad raps about teachers but that might be maybe 5 percent of the teaching profession. I work with amazing people who work tirelessly to make sure these kids have every opportunity to be successful. And I’m so proud of my staff because it’s in the schools such as ours that you need your very best teachers.

I challenge anybody to trade places with us and let’s see what happens with that.

And the bottom line is: We love our kids. So, America, embrace your kids. But embrace their teachers because their teachers need your support.

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kittyben10

Teaching is like any profession, you have good and bad. Most teachers want the best for their students. Most teachers are not skilled to teach reading. I have been studing READING for over a year and it is a SAD state of affairs that the MOST important skill and gift to give a child is not being taught by skilled, trained teachers in the science of reading. That is not a slam to teachers, colleges do not teach the reading process.

Our schools offer children guided reading programs, so called BALANCED LITERACY, which leaves 2/5s of their children in special education for READING FAILURE!!!!

I sat in my son’s first grade room amazed that children are basically teaching themselves to read. There is NO direct teaching in the process of reading in our schools. What happened to, ” Why do we spell cow with a c and not a k ( they both have the same sound ) how many teachers do not know why??? I know why, because the vowel O is not a WATCH OUT VOWEL. The watch out vowels are,,E , I , Y. If the beginning sound of { K } is followed by a E,I,Y its spelled with a K. If its follwed by, A, O, U,, you spell it with a C.

Reading is a process and if you do not TEACH it explicitly and directly using a TRUE SBRR reading program, then you will still be pouring out illiterate children into society and ruining that childs life forever.

Educators need to be appauled at what is happening to our children. Do your RESEARCH on your programs. I have a GREAT link for true SBRR programs and what the fakes include,,and most of the schools are using the fakes..

If your district takes NCLB funds, then your schools need to have a TRUE SBRR program or you are breaking the LAW of NCLB and your funding needs to be pulled.

Wake up teachers and parents,,ask ALOT of questions about your schools reading programs. Title 1 schools are taking funds and NOT using reading programs that follow NCLB.. Dont believe the LIES. They are using FAKE reading programs!!!!!!

If your child does not know WHY we spell cow with a C, then your schools reading program is FAKE and you need to SCREAM as loud as you can and demand a true SBRR program in your school!!

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