There is a statistic out there that almost half the adults in Detroit are functionally illiterate. They can't fill out job applications. They can't read the instructions on a pill bottle.
So when we talk about a war against black children, let's not think first about guns. Think about the weapon that is doing the most damage. That would be our public schools.
You cannot have functionality illiterate children at the high school level unless the school system systematically evades teaching those children to read at the elementary school level. That's exactly what is happening in cities across America. This is hardly a natural phenomenon. It's caused by the perennial incompetence (some would say malevolence) of our Education Establishment.
A famous book precisely explained in 1955 "Why Johnny Can't Read." You need phonics to teach reading. Without phonics, you will get illiterate kids. But our Education Establishment pretends not to hear the news. Nobody can be that clueless. They are best understood as a cult that pretends to be oblivious if that will help their agenda.
This is an easy matter for everyone to check. Just ask any black parents you know who have (or had) children in elementary school. Go ahead, ask them. That's the only way we are going to confront and cure this thing. Here's the key question: Did your children bring home lists of sight-words to be memorized? If that was the method of instruction, then those kids were doomed from the start never to become good readers. Sight-word lists are the smoking gun, the DNA evidence, the bloody fingerprints proving that the people in charge are not serious about literacy.
Via: American Thinker
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So when we talk about a war against black children, let's not think first about guns. Think about the weapon that is doing the most damage. That would be our public schools.
You cannot have functionality illiterate children at the high school level unless the school system systematically evades teaching those children to read at the elementary school level. That's exactly what is happening in cities across America. This is hardly a natural phenomenon. It's caused by the perennial incompetence (some would say malevolence) of our Education Establishment.
A famous book precisely explained in 1955 "Why Johnny Can't Read." You need phonics to teach reading. Without phonics, you will get illiterate kids. But our Education Establishment pretends not to hear the news. Nobody can be that clueless. They are best understood as a cult that pretends to be oblivious if that will help their agenda.
This is an easy matter for everyone to check. Just ask any black parents you know who have (or had) children in elementary school. Go ahead, ask them. That's the only way we are going to confront and cure this thing. Here's the key question: Did your children bring home lists of sight-words to be memorized? If that was the method of instruction, then those kids were doomed from the start never to become good readers. Sight-word lists are the smoking gun, the DNA evidence, the bloody fingerprints proving that the people in charge are not serious about literacy.
Via: American Thinker
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