Sonoma Valley schools have a literacy crisis
At [Tuesday’s Sonoma Valley Unified School District] school board meeting there were more comments about censuring a trustee than about the report of how few of our students can actually read proficiently. The most devastating, abysmal, hands-down depressing data was presented about how only 34.3% of our students (grades 1-12) read proficiently.
SVUSD has a literacy crisis and yet there was talk about “celebrations” during the item where the data showed how many of our children cannot read. The word celebration should never be used within miles of a data point that indicates 65.7% of our kids can’t read at the expected level. This is tragic yet trustees spent more time discussing their displeasure of a fellow trustee than any shock about the reading data. And it wasn’t just current trustees, there was a laundry list of former trustees that joined in about giving lashes to a trustee, including one who is a former superintendent who was “let go” from her district.
We have tiny humans who need responsible adults who care about their ability to grow up and function in this world — not adults having tantrums and trying to get rid of another human they find difficult.
— Mindy Curley Luby
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Thank God someone has spoken up!
My wife and I are profoundly troubled when we find that the Sonoman we are trying to support or help out of their difficulties, can even read the forms they need to fill out, or the instructions to resolve their difficulties. We are surprised by the number of adult in this county that can’t read.