Basic Skills, Lacking

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Teachers: Do Your Job. TEACH":

Whoever wrote "Parents would not have to hire tutors...if they would stop choosing to self select..." and "Younger children would not require tutors if their parents would spend some time with their chilren instead of brushing them off..." HOW DARE YOU!!!!! My daughter (who is now in college) was a product of "whole language" in elementary school. I was told by her teacher not to correct her spelling and to this day she can't spell. My son, now in HS, was a product of "investigations" and can't do basic math. I hire tutors because our district if failing our children!!! Our teachers must know it, but do nothing (is it because they can then hire themselves out as tutors for $100 an hour?) I do not know why Plainview has such a good reputation when our children seem so lacking in basic skills.