[robert14]

Global warming is biggest scam and was not in the list.

[caver]

Great post! 100% on target!

[Robert DeLong]

Good advice, thanks.

[left that other site]

I learned the old-fashioned way, via phonics, and by the seventh grade I was reading Dostoevsky...and LOVING it!

I could “sound out” anything.

An ancient but wonderful method of teaching sight-reading music is “Solfeggio” which is the old “Do re mi” method of note-reading. It works in a similar fashion, by “sounding out” the intervals.

[Vic S]

The real problem with Education is that it has been taken over by the large Tax Exempt foundations (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, etc) that do not want children to graduate with the skills necessary to go out in the world and make it on their own. They want workers.

Don’t listen to Phyllis Schafley, listen to Charlotte Iserbyt.

Here is a 45 minute interview with Norman Dodd who was the lead investigator for the majority in the Reece Commission on Large Tax Exempt Foundations, 1953/1954. The interview took place in the 1980s just before he died:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Kenyanesian Usurpation is the biggest con in history.

He told us he was born a British subject.

That would make him NOT a natural born citizen.

[Vermont Lt]

My daughter had a learning disability where she had trouble with things like “sight words” and multiplication tables.

Their solution to the reading: Phonics. I was thrilled. She received individual instruction three days a week. She graduated college in May with honors.

The people running schools are idiots.

[corlorde]

Bookmark

[Suz in AZ]

My daughter was taught to read in kindergarten in three months with a system close to this one. It starts with the long vowels. I think I was taught this way as well. It’s from the 70’s. Everything is here:

http://wigowsky.com/services.html

[dfwgator]

I r a graduite of the Evelyn Woodhead Sped Reedin Kourse.

[cornelis]

If you have children of your own, teach them to read at home when they are roughly five years old.

If your children are eager, teach them to read during their 3rd year. A book is a good baby-sitter.

[cornelis]

We use the “look-say” method starting out with letters, phonemes, and syllables, not words. Flash cards are always effectual, for all ages.

[Tax-chick]

My #6 son, about whose reading instruction I've written before, has completed Alpha-Phonics and is now diligently using his phonics to read everything that crosses his line of sight. He hasn't entirely stopped reading words backwards, especially when a word begins with a vowel (who knows why), and he still flips letters vertically (b/p, M/W) sometimes. However, he can pick and Easy Reader book off the library shelf and get through it with very limited assistance.

It infuriates me that children aren't taught to read. It's just not that difficult.

[wintertime]

This educational poison could not continue if schooling was privately owned and delivered. Could you imagine a restaurant chain or supermarket chain systematically poisoning its customers?

Yes, you are right about Whole Word reading methods but the evil will not go away until the government's monopoly and price-fixed ( at tuition-free) schools are abolished. As you pointed out, too many white collar employees are gaming a living from the evil.

[trisham]

When I learned to read in the first grade, it seemed to come to me in an instant. I read all of my books and took my older sister’s books and read them as well. I then read everything that was available. My mother went to every library sale that she could find and I read all of those, including encyclopedias and dictionaries.

[kalee]

One of the top reasons to homeschooled.