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Phonics used to be called phonetics.
The whole word movement among educators was driven by the self-avowed Marxist, John Dewey. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey
I know a number of children who have dyslexia despite having been taught phonics. It was so severe in Woodrow Wilson (whose predates Dewey) that he had to make up his own code as a workaround.
Dyslexics untie!
Very interesting. Thanks for posting your essay.
“In general, my research suggests that ALL the problems in our public schools are generated by so-called experts who just happen to be socialist ideologues. They won’t do what has the best chance of working. No, they insist on using bogus theories and methods. Dishonest and disgusting, don’t you think?”
Totally agree, both on the facts you’ve laid out here, and on your judgment/condemnation. Children have been being brutally sacrificed, physically, intellectually, spiritually, and every other kind of way, in this country, by these kinds of cretins. The job seems sysyphian at this point, but we have to find some way to stop them.
No poetry from this bunch.
Ok haven’t fully read it.
But I read Johnny Can’t Read when I was a teen, and I’ve had a few more experiences since then.
I agree phonics MUST be taught. My mom the teacher is adamnant on this.
However, English is weird and LOTS of words are “sight reading”.
In fact, my mom got my son the old Dick &Jane classics. He was about 4. He loved us reading it (reading to him was common since a baby) and the next thing you know, he is reading well himself!
It really was incredible.
We learned to write the letters. Then we learned the sounds of letters. Then we learned how to put the letters together to form words and we learned to read the words by “sounding out” the letters. After enough of that we started practicing to read in class in smaller groups with the teacher using the Tom, Betty and Susan books. We got pretty good at it. In 3rd grade I read Winston Churchill’s My Early Life. By 4th grade most of us could read fairly well.
If K-12 schooling were open to free-market competition, ( vouchers), do you believe this educational malpractice would continue?
Don't rely on the sad schools to prepare your children for life.
Dyslexia is definitely real. I know a few, all avid readers once they learned to deal with it.
Because English is a largely stolen language created by illiterate there’s not really one good way to learn in, because it’s really a loose collection of exceptions. My favorite Gallagher bit is about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk