Posted on 06/09/2011 6:13:55 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Four children ages 9, 7, 5 and 3 from a homeschooling Catholic family in Notre-Dame-des-Bois in Québec, Canada have been ordered into public school for socialization and non-phonics reading instruction. As Lydia McGrew explains:
This case from Canada, which one would like to think couldn’t happen in the U.S., is a fairly egregious example of judicial micromanagement: Judge Nicole Bernier (it would be a female judge!) ordered four children from a home schooling family into school and, in the case of children too young for school (down to age 3), into daycare so as to get what Judge Bernier calls “socialization.” To add injury to injury, Bernier wants the children to go to public school so that they will be taught to read (or, as the case may be, not taught to read) by non-phonics methods!
Now, this is crazy. The parents have not been accused of abusing or neglecting their children. Judge B. (by whatever ill fate she was brought into these innocent people’s lives) is just having a grand old time throwing around her weight and forcing them to raise their children as Judge B. would, presumably, raise her children. The notion of any sort of familial independence to make judgment calls about education is nowhere in the picture. (For the record, while I am a staunch advocate of phonics, I would consider laughable and pernicious the suggestion that some judge should interfere if parents were “caught” teaching their children to read by a look-say method.)
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I'm thinking they didn't find it "offensive" that you and your husband pulled your kids from government-run schools, but that they felt like a bunch of dupes who had been conned all their lives about government-run schools. Sort of like the "crabs in a bucket" syndrome, if you know what I mean.
I am amazed at how so many people pour themselves into their children's school through involvement in athletic booster clubs and other activities. Their lives seem to be centered around our local school.
Hooked on Socialism.
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The phonetic properties of the letters is what distinguishes our written language from, say, Chinese, with tens of thousands of characters to memorize.
Ignoring this property effectively doubles the effort required to learn both the spoken and written language. My grandson learned the phonetic values of the letters before learning the actual names of the letters.
People get angry, but never seem to ask what does he know about the school that I don’t?
Phonics is by far the best way to learn to read. I was lucky enough to have an old-school first grade teacher who taught phonics. I learned to read in a week (literally) and by the next year was reading chapter books on my own. My older brother was unlucky enough to land in a look-say first grade classroom, and didn’t get up to grade-level reading until about 4th grade. And he was never much interested in school, largely because of his early experiences.
My 4 y.o. twins are interested in words now, and I am starting to teach them (informally — they are only 4, after all!) how to sound out words. They are constantly running around here sounding out everything they can find. I am sure they will be proficient readers in a couple of years.
Pnonics really is the only way to teach reading!
Political Correctness is, ironically, the politically correct term for "Cultural Marxism".
So, indeed, they've made fascism sound "nice" by using a different term, but if you think they're functionally different, we'll have to disagree.
If the “good guys” don’t realize soon that the “bad guys” want to EXTERMINATE us and act accordingly,
I’m afraid the bad guys are going to succeed.
There’s always “Henry Bowman, pick up the white courtesy phone, your hogs are hungry.”
Just sayin’...
When there is no other recourse, the fascists bring certain things upon themselves.
I read a stat in some homeschool publication that said that of all professions, “public educators” had the highest rate of homeschooling.
Who wants socialist kids?
Is that allowed?
Reaching across the aisle to leftists is fine, as long as you're holding a flamethrower.
When I was 3 or 4, I was riding with my mom in the car, and I said something about a Conoco station. Maybe she had said she needed gas or something. She asked how I new it was a Conoco station, and I said "Well, it says C-O-N-O-C-O. That spells 'Conoco', doesnt' it?"
I don't think it sounds "nice" at all. In fact, my usual statement is that if it were the normal actually-factually form of correctness, they wouldn't need the extra word, so then it must NOT be correct.
The Progressives who are running our public schools, know that if you cant read you are easily controlled. Whole language/ Sight and Say has created a nation of functional illiterates. PHONICS is their enemy so they constantly seek to abolish its use because they know it produces readers.
You know what's more boring than watching paint dry? It's being 6 or 7 in a reading class and you already know how to read everything.
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