I’m almost 68 years old ... old enough to have learned to read with Dick and Jane ..... and I’ve NEVER heard of this before today when I received an e-mail
I’ve heard of it but never knew it was “Man made”.
Ted & Sally & Boots & Tuffy
In 1955 my third grade class was in a tiny Calvert System school for military and diplomat and business kids in Istanbul. The principal was notified that children returning to the States were being demoted in school because they had not read the Alice and Jerry or Dick and Jane series. We were reading stuff that in American public schools was deemed to be 8th grade level and higher, some way higher. One day the teachers sent all the kids in the first 4 grades out on the playground with complete stacks of A&J and D&J in pairs of one upper class (3rd & 4th) kid and one lower class kid to read both whole series to each other after which we were all certified as having completed the public school requirements and were officially able to read “on level.” We were all done in less than an hour.