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Australia has very low gun crime. There IS utility value to guns, should we ban trucks and gasoline(arson) too? Australia Shoobridge family murders 28 June 1997 Richmond, Tasmania 4 (plus perpetrator) 0 Peter Shoobridge cut the throats of his four daughters whilst they slept then took his own life with a rifle after cutting off one of his hands with an axe.[31] Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire 23 June 2000 Childers, Queensland 15 unknown Arson attack by Robert Paul Long, which killed fifteen international backpackers. Churchill Fire 7 February 2009 Churchill, Victoria 10 unknown Arson attack by Brendan Sokaluk that killed ten people, during the Black Saturday bushfires period. Lin family murders 18 July 2009 North Epping, New South Wales 5 unknown Blunt instrument attack that killed five members of the Lin family. Quakers Hill Nursing Home fire 18 November 2011 Quakers Hill, New South Wales 11 unknown Arson attack by Roger Kingsley Dean, a nurse, which killed eleven people. Cairns child killings 19 December 2014 Cairns, Queensland 8 1 (self-inflicted by suspect) Stabbing attack and Familicide. Eight children aged 18 months to 15 years killed. Thirty-seven-year-old woman also found injured. The woman, Raina Mersane Ina Thaiday, was later charged with the murder of the children, seven of whom were hers, plus her niece.[32] January 2017 Melbourne car attack 20 January 2017 Melbourne, Victoria 6 27 Vehicular attack. Dimitrious (James) Gargasoulas drove a Holden Commodore into Bourke St Mall, resulting in the deaths of six people and injuring 27 others. Should not be confused with the December 2017 Melbourne car attack which killed one person. September 2018 Bedford massacre 9 September 2018 Bedford, Western Australia 5 0 Stabbing, familicide. Five people were fatally stabbed or bashed in a house in the suburb of Bedford near Perth. The victims were two adult women, one three year old girl, and two girls aged 18 months.[34] In April 2019, 25-year-old Anthony Harvey pleaded guilty to murdering his five family members.[35] Should not be confused with the 1879 Cape Bedford Massacre against aboriginal people. 2019 Darwin shooting 4 June 2019 Darwin, Northern Territory 4 1 Spree shooting. Four people were killed and one person suffered a critical leg injury in a mass shooting allegedly carried out with a prohibited pump-action (Category C) shotgun. The shooter, 45-year-old Benjamin Glenn Hoffman, was charged with four counts of murder and later pleaded guilty to three counts. The shooter had been released from prison on parole in January 2019 and was wearing a GPS-tracked electronic monitoring bracelet at the time of the offence.[36] Camp Hill carjacking 19 February 2020 Camp Hill, Queensland 4 (plus perpetrator) 0 Domestic violence incident. Rowan Baxter set fire to his estranged wife's car, killing all four occupants, before committing suicide at the scene. 2024 Westfield Bondi Junction stabbings 13 April 2024 Bondi Junction, New South Wales 6 (plus perpetrator) 12 hospitalised Mass stabbing. Joel Cauchi entered Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre where he stabbed multiple people before being shot by police. Five victims, four women and one man, died at the scene, while a sixth victim, a woman, died in hospital. The injured victims include a young child, whose mother was the sixth victim.[37] If progressives want to end violence, they should probably start with not celebrating the murder of people. Seems like the lowest hanging fruit to me.... but hey, we're all righteous right

🍻 If you run across anything interesting I'm interested in it. What we need is a long term study following kids from preschool to a graduate degree.

That's not an example of phonetics, it's memory. You remember phobia, gian, topiary, ulate.

Which one of these was that? Adynamia Anecdotage Impignorate Syzygy Callipygian Floccinaucinihilipilification Kakorrhaphiophobia Accismus Agelast Bibble Cabotage Collywobbles Erinaceous Absquatulate Agastopia Convivial 🍻

To read, or speak? Why would being around natives 24/7 make phonetics less useful for reading?

I'm not being a dick, You're being religiously dogmatic and emotional because you think this 'breakthrough' vindicates your struggles with reading, you're playing victim.

Without phonetics, you don't think you would have suspected music? Especially with context. You're GUESSING, like Leo with pigs. You focus on the study of French "que" sound? Again, this is an OBVIOUS example of low hanging fruit words, not any sort of understanding.

Focus on mouth shape. You're way off.

Nope, sound it out now.....

You understand words you don't know, by the way they're spelled? English is your first language right? Guess any of these meanings, the easiest one, you choose. Adynamia Anecdotage Impignorate Syzygy Callipygian Floccinaucinihilipilification Kakorrhaphiophobia Accismus Agelast Bibble Cabotage Collywobbles Erinaceous Absquatulate Agastopia Convivial

You're saying this about learning a foreign language, for reading. I understand you have to know the sounds for speaking the words. So, a language that you do not know the words even audibly, focusing on the sounds of the letters, helps you understand the meaning of another foreign word? That's impossible.

Obviously anyone struggling should get more focus on phonics, but not at the expense of everyone else. The testing data I'm finding isn't showing anything ground breaking, without even entertaining my 'cheating' claim. https://open.substack.com/pub/freddiedeboer/p/is-phonics-instruction-a-reading?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4r30ck "So sure - I agree there’s a strong evidence-based argument for using phonics to teach reading to students who need formal instruction in order to read, and that such instruction can offer real if modest advantages compared to some other approaches for young, struggling readers who need help decoding at the word level. Beyond the earliest grades, outside of lower-level learners, and for tasks beyond decoding and into real comprehension, the phonics advantage collapses."

Definitely. This situation doesn't seem like basic gun violence to me. Doesn't seem like the example to harp on gun control over.

California has done phonetics for 30 years, they were the first, they have the LOWEST literacy rate, Mississippi10 years ago.... Phonetics is cheating, of course elementary word tests will get better scores with phonetics. @Thought Art all you've provided is your opinion stated as fact, you only have anecdotal evidence, you've posted ZERO scientific evidence. This is typical of these bullshit hype-ragebait pseudo-science campaigns. Just post some damn evidence then. "According to recent data, the following states have been identified as having the lowest literacy rates: California: 76.9% literacy rate, the lowest in the nation. This significant gap highlights challenges in educational infrastructure and demographic diversity. 1 Louisiana: Approximately 84.0% literacy rate, facing historical educational inequities that continue to impact literacy levels. 2 Mississippi: Also around 84.0% literacy rate, struggling with similar educational challenges as Louisiana. 2 New Mexico: Literacy rate of about 83.5%, grappling with rapid population growth and multilingual educational needs. 2 Texas: Noted for having low literacy rates, with specific average scores under 254, indicating significant challenges in literacy among its adult population. " 1

That's AMAZING! Do you think, we have a 99% literacy rate, the other kids are just cheating on the tests, you believe they can't read and write? You didn't do work outside of the tutor session? This thread is not about 1 hour a week for 2 years, it's about completely gutting how reading is taught.

Take this instance for example, you think eliminating guns would have stopped them? Look up terrorist attacks, and the different ways they do them. These guys planned this out, it wasn't a whim. Take the Boston bombers for example, in gun loving America, they didn't use any gun. Oklahoma city bombing, fertilizer bomb. We had several parades recently where a truck ran over the people. Depravity Whack-A-Mole. There's a simple solution, we have to quit murdering people, Europe murdering Palestinians, U.S. murdering muslims and Venezuelans, and none of our countries batting an eye at it. You get these little attacks that relieve some pressure(from the persecuted), think AlQaeda, ISIS,..... you can plug these little holes eliminating guns, then it just boils at a higher temperature and explodes into a death toll of 3,000 (9/11) Australia has pretty good gun control as far as I know. They're colonizers though, that's the problem.

I don't mean phonetics as an extra thing being taught will impede, I already said it's helpful. Obviously if you teach phonetics you eliminate other things you were teaching, you're not adding 3 months to every school year for phonetics, you're eliminating vocabularly and reading assignments.

Trucks, nerve gas or mustard gas(easily made with readily available material), anthrax(naturally grown), arson while locking doors, poison in the water system,.... guns are more convenient but taking away guns doesn't eliminate the problem, especially for planned attacks like this.

🙄 They didn't write for lay people

I'd say the prevalence, but not the cause.

That's just treating a symptom though. Theres still pressure cookers and trucks...

I will say, I absolutely do believe a phonetic approach to reading is the best way to read if you don't care about writing, you're converting symbols to sounds, like someone is speaking to you, rather than consciously thinking of the meaning of a symbol, it's easier, more natural. But not to write accurately(half of literacy). It's kind of funny.....🤔 probably right before Whole Word started, or not too long before it, words weren't standardized, people wrote more phonetically('incorrectly')...... 🤔 ......spelling is conformity......

They never touched on this in your school(not your tutor)?

I can see phonetics being used for a satisfactory level of literacy, I just think it's reckless to say you can decode English with phonetics, it's a ridiculous claim proven so with simple 'to/too/two'. For an accurate level of literacy you would learn through memorization though, but this is hard with dyslexia. When you're writing and words are coming to you, are they purely in audible form? They're both audible and written when they come to me.

@Thought Art can you write difficult words correctly, without memorizing them?