ANTI LIE: Most VUSD students are functioning (sic) illiterate

Roxy a person with similar views to our district's ANTI folks posted this lie following the Parvin Forum atrocity.

My response to Roxy was:

Roxy at 11:08PM also wrote the following incorrect statement:
"the majority of the “CHILDREN” at VUSD are functioning(sic) illiterate."

No Roxy the majority of children in VUSD are good readers and their reading scores are improving each year on the California Standards Test.

Here is an example of a math problem which requires fairly high level reading skills that seven and eight year old students are reading and solving here in VUSD right now. This problem is from the current third grade curriculum in the fourth week of school during this school year.

Each of the 18 students in Marlene's class either to play kickball or to jump rope during recess. If 12 more students chose to play kickball than to jump rope, how many chose each?

a) 6 chose to play kickball and 12 chose to jump rope
b) 8 chose to play kickball and 10 chose to jump rope
c) 12 chose to play kickball and 6 chose to jump rope
d) 15 chose to play kickball and 3 chose to jump rope

Seems pretty obvious to us but think about how much you knew at the beginning of third grade. The children with birthdays in September, October, November and December are still SEVEN years old when they see and solve problems like this.

The expectations for students today are higher than they were when were in school and our VUSD students are meeting them. Many of our students have multiple disadvantages that neither we or our children had, yet they are learning and learning at a record pace.