u/ReviewPuzzleheaded85

I noticed something this week that had me wondering if this was normal/on track milestones or indicators that a child was more ready to start learning to read.

My child is 2.25 yr and learns English and Korean (these days favors korean sentence structure when speaking and English vocabulary thrown in and some set English phrases). Not an advanced talker by any means- was delayed but is on track for the last 6 months or so.

This last month there has been an explosion in vocab in both languages and they have began "reading" books to themself and to us. What struck me as wondering if it was sign they wanted to start learning CVC (simple words like Cat) kind of thing was that they can figure track words in korean with decent accuracy much better than I expected for just simply memorizing

Sound effect words like (snore snore in korean or swing swing etc) are accurately pointed to. And moreover in both korean and English they know to finish a line then go back to the start of the next line underneath to keep reading. No accuracy when doing this in English far as I can tell but does know the same reading concept of line sweeping in English. They just prefer to do random sentences for those books lol

We read every day but I dont point to words that often and I had figured with the speech delay last year that reading wasnt something they would be wanting to start early.

Parents of bilingual (especially if you have Korean which has an easier to read alphabet). What do you think? Is this a sign we should be doing more 한글 ,(korean alphabet) and start easing into learning to read?

Tdlr: child is tracking words in second language with some accuracy at 2. Sign of wanting to learn to read sooner?

Second grade teacher here. My coworker said something the other day that didn't sit with right me and id like advice from other teachers

The situation:

There is a student with a learning disability and what seems like no empathy. He frequency does and says mean things to other kids in his class- things like even taking their personal items to get reactions, hitting or even acting like he will hit them with swings multipletimes, will keep doing actions that upset them after they ask him to stop multiple times etc. There has been reteaching from the teacher, there is bcba involved etc. But it isn't improving. The other students feel frustrated and after 4 months a number of them don't want to play with him at recess anymore.

There is more but thats the relevant partz

My coworkers take- by assuming that student will be mean and not giving a "second chance" the other students are being mean. A teacher should teach them that students who dont follow rules dont understand them so we give the. Second chances etc

Why this doesn't sit right with me: the students were giving second chances for months and nothing changed and only got worse for them. Thay student may not remember but they certainly do. Yes groups of people excluding one person can be seen as bullying. But to me this seems like kids realizing their boundaries aren't respected after months and that the local consequence would be to not play with someone who doesn't respect your boundaries. I feel like what she is saying to do it kind of teaching people to endure abusive behavior and that makes me uncomfortable. Regardless of a person having a disability aren't the people affected allowed to have boundaries and walk away? Even if they're kids

In short: as teachers do you encourage kids to give infinite second chances and that they have to include everyone no matter what? The idea of teaching kids they have to play with everyone even people their uncomfortable with doesn't sit right with ms