Thank you.
Humblegunner is obsessed with people making money on the web.... I never did. I write about intellectual topics that don’t have a large audience. But I did decide at the outset to use my full name and to be fully transparent. I want people to know who I am and to trust me. Many do.
For example, a reform group in Italy wanted advice on fighting sight-words in their public schools. They read my internet articles and decided I was the expert they would trust. I’ve been advising them for 3-4 years. I’m scheduled to speak at their Milan conference in October. I do not speak a word of Italian so you can see this is a great honor.
Here’s a report a year ago on this group and me:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/education_reform_italian_group_shows_americans_how_its_done.html
I accept flak as part of my reform efforts. Not to mention, I get a lot of good mail, for example:
“Hi Bruce - I never miss your articles and forward them on to local school board members and local media. I am 84 years old, a 35-year career long Middle School Principal, still of sound mind and body. Oh how I wish you could come to Grand Junction and speak. I believe with all my heart that the U. S Department of Education should close (be abolished), it serves no purpose, has no effect on improving teaching and student learning, NONE. What do you think? Keep up your excellent work, Bruce..... F. L. , GRAND JUNCTION”
You are welcome. My mother was involved with the Reading Reform Foundation for many years. Both she and my father had a functionally illiterate younger sibling and discovered “Why Johnny Can’t Read” back when they were starting a family in the late 50’s and taught all her children to read using phonics and Open Court materials long before we entered kindergarten.
I myself took training in the Spaulding method when I was a teacher and used it with my own home schooled children.
It is my fervent hope that the internet will finally break the stranglehold the progressives hold in schools or better yet, destroy the public union school model.