{"id":6883,"date":"2007-03-09T19:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/09\/bushs-reading-wars\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T19:40:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:40:47","slug":"bushs-reading-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2007\/03\/09\/bushs-reading-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush’s reading wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmmm. Bush has quietly declared a war on reading<\/a>. 2 million bucks? My own experience with this new emphasis on phonics is it’s a major pain in the arse for the children who were doing quite dandy on the whole language route because you’re now under pressure to sound everything out, despite it\u00a0being an extremely tedious way of learning. It reduces language to a packet of tic-tacs.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Besides it’s hard not to be deeply suspicious of something Bush supports — he’s hardly an example of fluency himself. I\u00a0must dig out the nuclear example<\/a>. (There’s a great gaff during a speech on literacy floating about, not on this link though) or http:\/\/www.dubyagump.com\/<\/a>\u00a0(This fella, of f. u. Cheney fame,\u00a0has a follow up Dubya moment <\/a>on youtube that’s very funny.<\/p>\n

(From New York Times)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Across the country \u2014 in Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine and New Jersey \u2014 schools and districts with programs that did not stress phonics were either rejected for grants or pressured to change their methods even though some argued, as Madison did, that their programs met the law\u2019s standard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see the future, school budgets will be based on how many copies of the bible in the school library …\u00a0 a bonus for statues and religious iconography. Jesus Camp (clips can be found on youtube) is a\u00a0great view for anyone interested in the indoctrination of children. It’s not\u00a0just religious anymore, the documentary exposes the politicisation of\u00a0these children,\u00a0who were shown praying for the election of particular Judge (with an anti abortion position), praying\u00a0intensely for a right wing government. It’s a fascinating documentary.<\/p>\n

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Hmmm. Bush has quietly declared a war on reading. 2 million bucks? My own experience with this new emphasis on phonics is it’s a major pain in the arse for the children who were doing quite dandy on the whole language route because you’re now under pressure to sound everything out, despite it\u00a0being an extremely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-and-education","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}