I swear we became good readers because of comic books. It doesn’t matter WHAT you read....it’s just the practice of reading.
OK!
Now that these stinking communist-indoctrinators admit their guilt, line them up at the neighborhood gallows and make’em dance...
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
Sure explains a lot.
26 letters, 44 sounds, and 144 ways to represent those sounds....once you crack the code, you can concentrate on comprehending the words on the page.
I started screaming about this about 30 years ago when my daughter entered K. I wound up pulling her out and teaching her myself. When I did a lot of research and discovered the theory behind “whole language”, I was stunned that teachers were foolish enough to not only believe this, but believe it with a religious fervor.
I fought with the system and finally got some phonetic teaching introduced, but the teachers really didn’t even know how it worked. They had also been so brainwashed that they had nothing but disdain for it.
I decided that the “whole language” method of NOT teaching reading, along with the disastrous “child-centered learning” was brought in INTENTIONALLY, for the purpose of dumbing down future generations. Even more so, I stand by that today.
Privatizing all education would be a minimum for a good start.
I’m a high school English teacher, and I am dismayed at the lack of literacy I see among my students. The majority don’t read, only the really smart ones do, and texting has dumbed them down so much it’s chilling. The gen pop kids have no idea just how stupid they are. The smart kids are in IB and AP.
Getting rid of phonics is an important step to eventual enslavement. Slaves aren’t supposed to be literate.