Posted on 03/30/2018 12:09:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ping!
The irony is that "alphabet" is, in essence, Greek. "Alpha Beta" is entirely analogous to our usage of "ABCs". Don't know the point here, except that there is no end to learning.
Bravo!
I'm sure you read quite well, given your phonics training. But you and I both know that 2nd graders, which are around 8 years old, are not capable of reading or comprehending legitimate college material.
Unless you're thinking of what currently passes for college material. Like the current SATs, like the current "reading levels", like students who cannot add or subtract or divide or multiply or write being admitted to 4-year universities under the remedial or "emerging" programs, everything has been watered down to accommodate what the government schools have produced.
I taught my kids to read using phonics. They are well ahead.. I think public schools intentionally dumb kids down and don’t bother teaching them. I was well ahead of other students growing up and my teachers were awful to me.
I don’t think there’s much benefit in knowing the alphabet...except as a communication tool. What REALLY counts is are the sounds (phonics), and learning them, which is what the Left spends all of their time trying to prevent or at least delay, in American kids (and quite successfully, as in our public schools).
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