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And when you get to writing dough/doe, ant/aunt, deer/dear, two/to/too,.... you use brute memory though?

@Thought Art you've memorized these words, haven't you?

So, can you write at a 12th grade level?

@Thought Art

Of course phonetics is used in learning a word, you have to speak it! My reservation is with reading, you have to memorize words, phonetics in reading is for cheating to not have to memorize low hanging fruit words: i.e. 'child level reading'

@Thought Art how do you know the difference between these? I love my deer I love my dear I killed an ant I killed an aunt I ate the dough I ate the doe

Exactly, it's only for 'low hanging fruit' words, it's not "decoding" English, it's cheating.

Can you decode any of these words with phonetics? (Don't use google) Adynamia Crepuscular Impignorate Petrichor Abibliophobia Callipygian Élucubration Floccinaucinihilipilification Kakorrhaphiophobia

These grifters will need to go to jail, Huang, Altman, Nadella, Ellison. This is like reverse 2008, we're actively choosing the crash..... Idiocracy

To read it, or speak it?

@Yeah Yeah I do love life. I enjoy the little things and I've found some great people, my 'tribe'. Just doing yoga, watching the stars, sunrise or set, clouds, a storm, blue sky, the snow, drinking a clean glass of water, eatimg an orange, camping and hiking, rock climbing, trail running, biking, sleeping, silence, walk through the park or city, meeting new people, kicking a soccer ball around: life can be heaven if you just listen to yourself. Society doesn't matter, worrying about society is hell. Whatever happens happens, but right now there are things I can enjoy.

@Ramasta9 it's because your account is so new, you're limited on how much you can post in 24 hours.

No "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how" -Fred N.

What is the worst example of insurance claim denial that you all know of?

You don't have to get insurance through your employer. And you can pressure your employer to change.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/us-news/luigi-mangiones-family-operated-nursing-home-empire-that-was-cited-for-abuse-and-health-violations/

So, you never heard of a protest or boycott either? A protest spreads awareness so people leave UnitedHealth, starts class action lawsuits, gets people to join non profit health mutuals and start more, communities take over community hospitals, states start state health insurance,.... Killing him just spreads the same dehumanizing culture that UnitedHealth was operating on. Luigis family never even had UnitedHealth....

I don't think we could trust any literacy rate published in China, maybe they send dyslexic kids to the rice fields. Actually, dyslexic people may do better with kanji rather than alphabets. https://blog.dyslexia.com/teaching-japanese-to-dyslexic-students/

Obviously this is important with dyslexia though, not that I personally understand how, but dyslexic people really benefit from phonetic practice. For all we know, grades could be declining because of pollution even. I look forward to learning more about this though, I'd like to find a long term study, one from K to college.

Were there ever any protests against United Health or Brian Johnson, boycotts? I never heard of any. It's psychopathic to jump straight to assassination, regardless of how normalized that is in the u.s.

Ya, trends seem to correlate with the rise of video games and personal screens. Kids aren't going to spend as much time reading with so many distractions available, I don't care how you teach them. People have the TV raise their kids.

Do you not find it odd, take your thread title for instance "illiteracy epidemic", that the framing of these new claims is that our kids are illiterate, when literacy it at it's highest ever? I watched the videos you posted and looked at a few other sources. The data I see would be consistent with my "cheating" theory, children using 'low hanging fruit' words that they already know audibly. This just has the classic hallmarks of jumping to conclusions. I'm trying to find a long term study, the differences it makes when people grow up, college. Literacy shot up AFTER switching to Whole Word learning. You don't think they would have caught on if test scores declined after the switch?

You were never taught that outside of tutoring? Did you not read out loud in class?

@DocWatts do you know, with the phonics approach will schools still do vocabularly lists with definitions?

I think it was the Whole Word approach, I remember dyslexic kids that went to my school doing Hooked On Phonics outside of school. The 'sounding it out' was like until first grade, and only if you didn't know the word from memorizing the flash cards, that ended then and then it was pure memorization, lists and lists and tests of words on their definitions.