@mushroom_soup Good read. Department of Education hard at work stupefying children because they don't like that some britbong in the 19th century got reading education right. :blobthonkang:
@nobullyplz@mushroom_soup while phonics is the way to go, one has to wonder about how much of the decline in reading ability is due the the country becoming browner and lower IQ
@sun Teaching kids to just guess what a word they don't know is is insane. Thank God I grew up with a mom who encouraged me to read so I learned early and was always an advanced reader
Whenever we're sitting around discussing teaching the latest political thing, I almost always now go in to look at how many schools failed to produce one (1) student reading at grade level at graduation.
I think it's fitting that people who shouldn't have made it to the next grade because they don't yet have the prerequisite skills are being taught by people who think they should be allowed to teach all these other materials when they aren't yet successfully teaching the prerequisite skills.