Howuch does a hamburger flipper really need to know, anyway?sic
Nothing at all...........................
I always hated Dick, Jane and Sally, even as a first grader. I mean, who talks like that????
Even worse was doctor Suesse. Those were so insanely stupid, and it always felt like children were being mocked as stupid, like they were incapable of rational talk.
I was always an advanced reader, taught myself to read years before I ever stepped into my first class room. They tried to teach us sight reading in first grade so when the teacher pointed at a word I never really knew if she wanted the word or the letter. I wasn’t going to risk the wrath or mocking of the teacher since her mind was unidirectional and mine wasn’t so I refused to open my mouth and answer her questions.
Thank God I only had to put up with that nonsense for one year. One day the principle had to fill in for the teacher and he taught us words like surprise, and vacation..letters, sounds and all. I actually learned something that day other than “oh, see Sally run”
It’s amazing how so many adults just don’t get kids. But then again, education isn’t the purpose of school. Developing a work force (indoctrination) is. Howuch does a hamburger flipper really need to know, anyway?
Dick and Jane were readers based on phonics. So wasn’t Suess. (I used to live next to Mulberry Street—where he lived for years.)
My daughter had a learning disability where she could not memorize things well...and what did they do? The taught her phonics. She never looked back and graduated from college with Honors.
She still cant do multiplication tables.
Those books are primers. They use common words and they reinforce sounding out. They are not novels! Ha Ha.
Howuch does a hamburger flipper really need to know, anyway?sic
Nothing at all...........................