Year 9 students who can’t read

Radio NZ reports:

Several respondents said their schools bankrolled literacy catch-up classes and training from the Kahui Ako scheme that gave some teachers release time for specialist work with other teachers in their school or across groups of schools.

An English teacher from a large, low-decile school who RNZ agreed not to name, said that arrangement allowed her to work with four classes of Year 9 students who could not read.

The fact so many students can’t read after eight years of schooling is a disgrace. The poor secondary schools shouldn’t have to be teaching third formers (showing my age) how to read.