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The poor girl can't even read 'only'!


Are you *beep* kidding me?

The two "liberal" parents and their children should be deported to Europe.

These slobs do not deserve to live in the US.

Their children will definitely be living on social welfare FOREVER.

It's just DISGUSTING!

I can understand why some parents don't like public schools (which are indeed dumps). However, the parents should make the efforts to HOMESCHOOL their kids, for God's sakes!

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Agree

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I'm sorry but you can't say that just because she couldn't pronounce one word. She couldn't pronounce a word so you are just automatically claiming doom and gloom for her?

"Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation"

Love Les Miserables!!!

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Well "only" and "cycle" are very easy words. First graders can easily read them. I wouldn't be so concerned myself if she was several years younger, but she's a preteen. She can legally work in 4-5 years in the U.S., except how would she be able to fill out a job application?

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Wow so two words? Geez you're right she's doomed forever now! And who can say the girl wasn't nervous having some woman who she didn't even know all over her and cameras in her face? From her not being able to pronounce two words on a very edited tv show, she's not going to amount to anything? Yeah okay.

"Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation"

Love Les Miserables!!!

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Are you her mom or something? I never said she was doomed or wouldn't amount to anything at all, but she may struggle far more than most who can read do. It's harder to try and learn things as you get older, and I imagine it's also more frustrating. Right now it's not a huge deal, but if she doesn't improve her reading skills drastically in the next several years, she may be very overwhelmed when she enters the real world.

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Those 2 words are just examples. The girl can't read and her parents don't care.

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really? cycle is an easy word???????????????????


kykle? the c's have two different sounds in this word!

sea,eye,k,l,e.


Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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by - JCrewgirl on Wed Apr 17 2013 13:25:58
I'm sorry but you can't say that just because she couldn't pronounce one word. She couldn't pronounce a word so you are just automatically claiming doom and gloom for her?

-->You don't have to be sorry. However, if you watched the same episode as I did, you know that she did not just struggle with one word.

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Okay so 2, I saw the same episode and we only saw her struggle with two words and doesn't mean she's stupid or anything plus what we see is like two weeks edited into one hour of a show and you are judging this child based on what you saw on one scene that was only a few seconds long. It's not like you saw her going through a list of words and not being able to pronounce them or something, you only saw her mispronounce 2 words. That's all I'm saying, it's very edited as far as we know the other lady probably wasn't as bad as the editing made her out to be either.

"Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation"

Love Les Miserables!!!

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People are mentioning the two words as an example of ones she struggled with. The girl herself said she could text but she couldn't read books.

"When death sleeps, it dreams of me."

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And that means that she can't? Because if you can text and read stuff on the internet then you can read books as well.

"Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation"

Love Les Miserables!!!

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It says she can text, not read things on the internet. People who text don't often text in proper grammar, or even words. LOL for instance. she may understand what that means and can read that, but can she read the actual words? does she know how to use a period and so on ?

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She probably can. You can't believe everything that you see on the show. People don't text in proper grammar but you do have to be able to read in order to send them. And she does more then just send text. And they did say she goes on the internet NOT just text.

"Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation"

Love Les Miserables!!!

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I can understand why some parents don't like public schools (which are indeed dumps). However, the parents should make the efforts to HOMESCHOOL their kids, for God's sakes!



uh... what? public schools are 'indeed dumps' then home school them or pay for private school. and if you can't then public school is the way you have to go. I'd rather have these parents try than to come to the parent teacher conferences [if they come at all] in pajamas and reeking of booze and pot, wanting to start a knock down drag out fight because their kid isn't getting fours!

like they do today.

a lot of parents are too ignorant and or proud to even realize they don't know.



Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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