Posted on 04/29/2010 12:47:37 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
The best thing we can do for the country is to make sure all children read by the second grade. The Education Establshment continues to push non-phonetic methods that don’t work. Here’s a graphic video (only 3 minutes) that explains why Kindergarten Sight-Words Are Not A Good Idea.
This hoax requires that children memorize words as SHAPES or graphic designs, as we all memorize flags, currency symbols, hieroglyphics, cars, etc. A few hundred is difficult but doable; a few thousand is beyond most people. Even then, it takes a lot of time, so all of education is undercut. Once parents understand that Look-say, Whole Word, Sight Words or Dolch Words (all same thing) is a destructive fraud, we’ll see steady improvement in the public schools.
Reading may not be everything, but I often suspect it's half of everything. That's why the impostors in charge of education have devoted so much ingenuity to making sure kids would end up semi-literate.
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“OR when he starts school and they find out that the system can’t deal with a 5-year-old who can already read, write, add and recite muzzle velocities. Wait for them to recommend “counseling” because the boy likes to talk about guns ... “
Yeah, I can’t wait. The kid’s already been around guns and shooting, so it’ll be interesting.
But the school idjits won’t get very far if they come up with the ADD/ADHD krap(tm). My other nephew supposedly has that and his brother feels it’s a crock.
The kid’s dad has already stated what he’d do if the kid’s pediatrician asks him or them anything about guns. After the doc bandages his new a$$h0le that nephew will tear him, he won’t be bothered again about having the kid as a patient. Like I said, and proudly, nephew is a RABID conservative.
my little grandson’s teacher actually rolled her eyes at my daughter when she was talking to her...when his hair was cut (all over his head) they circled the wagons and would not tell us what happened.. she has half her students sitting with their back to her. they are sending kids home with 40 pounds of homework in their back packs with instructions for the parent to teach them...there is most certainly something wrong with the schools..some of the teachers i know have said they vote dem because dems support their unions and the get more benifits...(was said when clinton was in office). I asked them what clinton did for them and they could not tell me...thats when i said ...I pay taxes so i am giving you all these things...i got told that was total bs.
Do you remember the stories in the later books where a group of boys beat the crap out of the teacher? And a group of boys, aided with Laura Ingals danced through the streets singing taunts about the lovely Miss Wilder?
Rough place
Tell them about the “Day of Silence”, Kevin Jennings, and GLSEN.
Have you ever examined what the students had to do for their end of the year activity? The cipherin’, grammar, and history - all from memory. Very impressive.
Plus, if I remember right Pa always made them tell him what scripture verses the pastor used from his sermon.
I think that their memories were sharper because they had fewer resources at their fingertips and had to remember it because there was no other way to be.
Morgana,
Thanks for quoting my article. (”Eight Warning Signs of a Bad School” is on ezinearticles.com)
But I don’t understand the earlier comment about sounding out words and making new words...?
Flesch, etc. often talk about school-proofing kids, especially in reading. I’ve been using the phrase Parallel Education for EVERYTHING that happens outside of school; I suspect it’s more important than ever.
I’ve made some videos just right for that boy; see below. There’s another one for capital letters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTMQZSs2PWA
And a good numbers one called NumbersS 1-10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZuUz3WNv-w&feature=related
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