K2:
K2:
Really good readers read by site words - but only after learning to sound them out phonetically and lots and lots of practice. Gotta walk before you run.
How about this one... Antiestablishmentarianism?
Just try to sight read this one without needing to pick it apart.
Learning to read entails the introduction and practice of the individual sounds that make up words. When that was accomplished my boys went on to putting those sounds together to make words. One year of practice for that exercise.
The following year they cycled thru a similar go-around and added reading practice.
] The following year the did another practice with even harder words.
By the fourth year they were accomplished readers and could decipher any word given to them.
At the same time as they were learning to read I had the also go through practicing penmanship.
All this cemented the learning into their brains and the penmanship created a well rounded reader.
This is what schools used to do when they produced excellently educated students who were able to go on to higher and more challenging educational challenges - read math, science, writing.
If schools would spend the first four years on just reading and penmanship they would have students prepared for any educational challenge.
What the socialistic educationists have done is a crime to every school child and they should be prosecuted and jailed. (My opinion).
The education du jour scam. Destroying children’s scholastic capabilities since 1962!
In my Masters experience long ago, the various Phd physicists and other hard science wizards typically asked to called by their first names.
OTOH, the few Education Phds I’ve met were pompous a$$holes who demanded the “Doctor” address.
I suspect the K-12 Common Core math teachers must be fairly ignorant of mathematics.
K-12 is a money sluice for teachers unions and nothing else. What they are doing is criminal.