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To: polymuser
“Around 12 years old, his master’s sister-in-law, Sophia Auld, was teaching Frederick the alphabet, despite this being against the law.”

If the bad guys had really wanted to prevent slaves from learning to read, they should have sent them to public schools.

5 posted on 02/07/2018 6:49:53 AM PST by jeffersondem
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Perhaps we can teach NFL players to read


10 posted on 02/07/2018 7:06:30 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: jeffersondem
If the bad guys had really wanted to prevent slaves from learning to read, they should have sent them to public schools.

In that era a totally different method of teaching reading was used in public schools.

It was simple and it worked.

Phonics. And there were two sets of rules one must know to make it work that have been forgotten since the 1800s.

The silent letter rules and the substitute letter rules.


14 posted on 02/07/2018 7:13:11 AM PST by Mogger
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To: jeffersondem

They do!


17 posted on 02/07/2018 7:17:10 AM PST by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation!)
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To: jeffersondem

Yeouch !


29 posted on 02/07/2018 7:45:11 AM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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