I hugely prefer phonics (supplemented by some core sight words) to whole word reading, but the argument that kids were deliberately taught whole word as some leftist plot to create an uneducated population is just dumb.
Why do you think dumbing-down for easier to control group-thinkers is “dumb”?
“I hugely prefer phonics (supplemented by some core sight words) to whole word reading, but the argument that kids were deliberately taught whole word as some leftist plot to create an uneducated population is just dumb.”
I would agree that by the time you get in the field, most teachers have no clue as to which is better, and even if they did understand phonics (something they no longer get trained on in any depth), they would be prohibited from teaching it.
But the people on the top know better, for sure, and they are hard-Leftists - so if it’s not political motivation (i.e., knock this country down a notch, or whatever), than why do they persist in Whole Language (or whatever term they use, until it’s again discredited)?