Bump...
This sight word hoax has been my own personal crusade against the schools my children attend. I see the very things described here in BOTH my sons. They have vocabulary and comprehension skills two grade levels above their current, and yet they both struggle reading and spelling. I have literally had to deprogram them and reorganize how they read by focusing on phonics and correct spelling/grammar.
I have used you materials repeatedly in my confrontations with school administrators trying to “label” my kids, and say that there is nothing wrong with my kids, it is their faulty teaching and curriculum that is the root of their difficulties.
When the tell me “you don’t understand education” I reply with, “neither do you”.
I have finally won after a long battle against the administrators/psychs and their attempts to label my kids as ADHD/Dyslexic, by exposing them for their malpractice and incompetence, and have forced the district to use phonics based program with my kids and that they are to drop the use of sight words for them.
This sight words BS has to be fought and defeated. English is a phonetic language, and I use BDP’s articles as ammunition against these dunderheaded administrators who are left babbling like fools.
Thank you Bruce, you have been a wonderful resource for me as a father.
Why are yours in public school? You are spending the time reteaching-”reprogramming” them that you could be using to teach them at home and were they NOT in public school they would not be getting infused with all the social propaganda and leftist fantasy that you might not even notice until it is cemented into their brain cells.
The school will use your children's success ( due to **your** hard work) to prove how wonderful the government school is.
Honestly....Before a parent goes to the effort to move into a “good” school district, they should first find out how many children are being “after-schooled” or sent to expensive tutoring centers.
Thanks so much. And congratulations on your success.
The thing that people should realize, because it is especially horrible, is that when a school creates students like your sons, they get money from the government under Title I. So they have a very perverse, sick incentive to continue doing a bad job. Of all the bad things in our country, I think this is one of the worst; and you never see it discussed in the newspapers.