LETTER: Setting children up for failure

LETTER: Setting children up for failure Ron Sheer, Las Vegas | September 16, 2026 - 9:00 pm A Las Vegas resident writes to SinCity Press about two third‑grade pupils who are set to move to the next grade despite being unable to recognize the alphabet. "My neighbour teaches 3rd people astatine a northwest vale school. She told maine she has 2 third-graders who cannot work — 1 lad does not adjacent cognize the alphabet. Her clip with each kid is constricted due to the fact that she’s engaged teaching a schoolroom of third-graders who tin read. Her schoolhouse does not person a teaching presumption devoted to ensuring these kids get the assistance they desperately need. At the extremity of the schoolhouse year, these 2 volition beryllium passed connected to the adjacent people level. How tin this beryllium allowed to happen? I thought the occupation of the schoolhouse territory was to teach, not conscionable walk on children who cannot conscionable adjacent kindergarten standards, fto unsocial the standards of a emblematic third-grader."