[Oshkalaboomboom]

When my younger brother was in grammar school they taught him to read using a new program called the Initial Teaching Alphabet. Instead of normal letters they had a bunch of different symbols, each representing a different sound. Supposedly once you learned these sounds you would have the tools to know every word in the English language. They even learned to read from ITA books instead of regular ones.

My brother could read an ITA book perfectly. The only problem was that in the real world there were no ITA books and he had major problems in the transition from ITA to normal. It took him many years to catch up and recover from the damage done to him by this experiment in modern learning.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET...Yes, my impression was that ITA made no earthly sense. Almost a separate language. Very scary when you first glance at it. But there’s still a foundation pushing it!

“Let them eat ITA!”

The sad truth is that our Education Establishment was/is a lot more dedicated to illiteracy than to literacy. All the evidence shouts that.