““As others have commented, my wife and I had to save our son in second grade from his teacher who had a PhD in Reading. With phonics in hand we were soon reading The Hobbit together. All parents have to make sure their children can read BEFORE they go to any school.” Star Tripper “
This is ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. If you teach your kids the CORRECT method of reading, which, of course, is PHONICS, which, of course, our schools refuse to teach - then they’ll be great readers, for life - and there is not a damn thing that the schools can do to ‘unteach’ that capability. The schools are simply OUT OF LUCK, your child will not be dumbed down - but, of course, the others still will be.
The school will take full credit for the parent’s hard work.