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Actually, many don’t “figure it out, somehow”.

I got involved in this 25 years ago when I saw what they were doing to my 5 year-old daughter. I pulled her in a matter of months and home-schooled.

The whole language nonsense is based on a false premise - that children learn to read naturally, the way they learn to walk. Wrong.

I have written my own reading/spelling program. I started a tutoring business which put my own children through private schooling once they entered the system. I still warn parents about “sight” reading. I have taught my own grandchildren to read and spell, and am going to tutor another little girl starting next week.

The damage done by whole language is beyond comprehension. It is a major cause of behavioral problems, low self-esteem, illiteracy, and failure through high-school. Most of the young people in juvenile detention centers are illiterate.

Falling for the whole language method of NOT teaching children to read and spell has cost untold billions of dollars, and many, many hardships.