[FreedomPoster]

>>One third of pupils can’t read.

When you teach sight words instead of phonics, that’s the result. We’ve been doing it for 50 years or so, but the geniuses that run the education bureaucracies can’t figure out the problem.

[Cowgirl]

Not enough book sales if they use the old primers that taught phonics.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

One third of pupils can’t read.

When you teach sight words instead of phonics, that’s the result. We’ve been doing it for 50 years or so, but the geniuses that run the education bureaucracies can’t figure out the problem.

That sounds absolutely spot on. I’ve never understood how anyone ever learned how to read and write Chinese.