Phonics.
Is it because there is more money to be made in continuing problems than in solved problems?
Because the job of pubic school teachers is to create good little inctrinated and ignorant socialists, who will vote accordingly one day.
(If unfamiliar with The Frankfurt School, search on it.)
I believe it was Henry Ford who said that he doesn’t want intelligent workers, just read workers.
I think you’ll find that attitude throughout the government. If we had intelligent workers, they would be less likely to be fooled and complain and act when they are being screwed over.
That’s not what the government wants.
And he was right then and just as right now. Phonics is the key. No “science” necessary. Need a real wake-up call? Pick up a set of McGuffey Readers. See if your child is reading at the levels suggested.
Funny, I was able to read before I entered Kindergarten. That was 4 decades ago. I don’t trust public schools to do anything right (except for leftist indoctrination and dumbing-down, they’ve got that down pat).
With modern education, we are now effectively taking fourteen years to do what used to be done in eight. Most college bound students spend two years in remedial classes before doing actual college level work.
Reason 147,196 to homeschool.
Look see type reading probably works if you want to end reading comprehension at Dick and Jane books, but if you want to really know how to read, especially higher level literature, you simply must know phonics.
Not every kid will enjoy reading though. We have four kids. We homeschooled and graduated them all and used the phonics method.
One worked for many years in a library and bookstore. She loves introducing books to kids and is currently going to college for her library science degree. Another works for a Christian book publisher, wants to become a proofreader and has 247 books on her Christmas list. ( she might get three), The other is an aerospace engineer, so I assume he’s pretty fluent at hard reading. The fourth reads well, but has no enjoyment in books. It is what it is.
“See Jane run”
The aunt of a friend had a stroke and couldn’t read. She was elderly and had been a teacher. She went back to the way she used to teach her students to read, probably in the ‘40s and ‘50s, and taught herself again...to read.
If an immigrant cannot read in their native language, they will find it nearly impossible to read in another language even with learning the basics of that language.
“What have scientists figured out? First of all, while learning to talk is a natural process that occurs when children are surrounded by spoken language, learning to read is not. To become readers, kids need to ... READ. Not rants on Twitter, but ACTUAL BOOKS.
Sight reading is best, IMO. Why learn something phonetically only to have to correct and relearn it. Seems like a waste of time. Are spelling cops and reading cops at odds with each other? I read some time ago cities were forced to spend $MMs to change all their street signs back to mixed case letters after some nitwit deemed it best to have them printed in all caps. Seems people don’t quickly recognize words in all caps and it was causing problems for drivers.
My mother taught me to read before I entered kindergarten. Then publik skrewl proceeded to screw up my spelling by shoving phonetics down my throat.
Grades K-2 were a nightmare.
Common Core Math, meet Common Core Reading.
So they cruise through their courses without learning squat, while countless academics ponder a question whose answer has been clear for decades.
And no one dares to call it EDUCATION MALPRACTICE, which is what it clearly is.
After 30 yrs. of being out of the business, I decided to try substitute teaching to supplement my retirement. Folks, it’s worse than you think out there. Kids are told to stay away from rote memorization. Instead of just knowing the answer to addition and subtraction they have to make some grid that I don’t even understand. Instead of teaching competition and grade achievement they are told to give “affirmative” notes to each other. It’s no wonder we have a generation of snowflakes. If they disrupt the classroom they go down to a special office and “discuss” their oppositional defiance syndrome.
Yep.
Learned to read at home before kindergarten.
Then Pud & Zip the frogs,
Then on to the big box of SRA cards.
Nostalgia . . .
Yes, the public schools refuse to use phonics to teach a phonetic language. This is by design, they don't want your kids to actually be educated. They want your kids to be endoctrinated.
Reading isn’t hard. Turning it into a complicated matter is retarded.