David Rose Positively Judging Himself

David Rose wrote to Sysfling on 12 January 2016 at 09:00:

High school teachers have no training in teaching reading. We are trying to address this against enormous odds. 

In Africa we are also training teachers to teach reading. Over 3000 trained so far in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa. Including refugees. South Sudan project unfortunately on hold due to continuing war.

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David Rose Negatively Judging Teachers In Universities & High Schools

David Rose wrote to Sysfling on 11 January 2016 at 18:10:

But I think Adut having to teaching himself to read while at high school is the real issue. Beyond the dramatic story of his escape to western Sydney, it is the one part of his tragedy that is shared by millions of others, most of whom do not get so lucky. Traditionally, these students who were not taught to learn from reading would go into manual occupations or vocational education. In Australia, governments are destroying the vocational education sector by privatising it. Uni of Western Sydney is capitalising on this massive funding shift by recruiting these students into undergraduate programs, along with international students who fail to qualify for the sandstone unis. But teachers in the uni sector are no more qualified to teach academic reading than those who failed to teach them in the high schools.

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David Rose Negatively Judging Teachers And Positively Judging Himself

On Friday January 8 at 16:34:12 2016, David Rose wrote to Sysfling:

Did you notice he had to teach himself to read coz his teachers don’t know how

to which Phil Chappell replied at 20:18:

No, I didn't. 

and to which David Rose replied at 21:10:50: 

Must be a visual literacy issue… heh heh*

No, he tells us… age 15, so high school student in western Sydney… taught himself to read. Teachers don’t know how is my comment… after training 1000s to do so, including western Sydney (and Africa) Leapt out at me, sorry, had to comment.

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*Postscript:

On Tuesday January 12 at 6:53, Annabelle Lukin wrote to Sysfling, providing evidence of David Rose's failure in "visual literacy" (and vindicating Phil Chappell):

According to this story (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-10/from-child-soldier-to-refugee-lawyer-an-inspiring-journey/6764088), Deng taught himself to read when he first arrived in Australia. He was not illiterate from a failure in the Australian school system, but from having spent years in refugee camps, one run by the Sudanese People's Liberation Army who forced him to be a child soldier. This story on SBS reports that some teachers played a crucial role in his education:
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2011/06/21/long-road-freedom-former-child-soldier 

Here's a quote:

Through perseverance and a little extra help from some dedicated teachers he learnt English, completed his HSC at TAFE and eventually studied law at university.