I'm skeptical. I don't think schools were anywhere near centralized enough at the time to put such a policy into effect.
Agree 100% on the idiocy of Look-say, whatever you want to call it.
There are kids you can't keep from learning to read, no matter what you do. I was one of them, learning to read at the age of 3.
There are other kids who will learn to read okay no matter what method you use to teach them. They're not really a problem either.
Then there are those, a considerable number, who would learn reading just fine if taught using a sensible method, but flounder with the idiotic ones. Abandoning this group to the tender non-mercies of faddists is unforgivable.
Rant off.
Euthanize public education. Put it out of its misery.
19th century fossil, relic of Bismarck’ s Kulturkamfp, permanently perverted by Dewey system.
The more Charter Schools ally with Homeschoolers, the quicker employers will refuse to accept public school certificates of functional lobotomy.
True. However, "New Math" goes back about 50 years. I was in the first full class subjected to it in my school district.
Unlike reading, for me how math was taught was important, and New Math most definitely wasn't what I needed.
IOW, there ain't nothing new about this idiocy, except possibly its variety.
Even if their kids are getting bent over by predatory pederasts who are riding the strong arms of SIECUS, PFLAG, and the NEA into the classroom to scout for talent/chicken dinner?
The financial elites, i.e., international banking, new world order, etc., were historically frustrated by the religious and moral underpinnings of universities under the auspices of Christianity.
In the 19th century, they began the process of founding - and funding - their own universities outside the purview of any Church.
Thus the satanic secular university movement was set in motion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe_University_Frankfurt
etc....
At such colleges, the elites were the ultimate overseers, and could therefore establish their own moral code to be taught, and could establish their own directions for research.
These same elite financiers developed the idea of communism as their preferred system of governing, and they institute communist governments where possible, while they, the true rulers, remain in the shadows as simply financiers that communist elites receive their financing - and orders - from.
Excellent rant. Thank you.