[pierrem15]

Only credentialed idiots ever believed that you could teach children to read using whole-word recognition instead of phonics. And I'm old enough to remember the catastrophe of "New Math" that derailed my education in math until I got to college.

There's no reason that someone with only a high school diploma (assuming it's merited and not a participation trophy) cannot teach grade school kids.

[Glad2bnuts]

They taught them “see say” instead of phonics, and the new math+Gates math for one reason, to teach people that they need to “appeal to authority”. You can’t possibly be self sufficient, Google and all government authoritarians including teachers, will be there to help you out.