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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's the educators who need to get sued. They should have known better than to buy a shit program with no phonics.

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And you should know that it isn’t educators who choose and do purchase curriculum. My colleagues and I basically went behind our admin’s back to teach phonics. [/quote]

I think maybe PP confused admin with educators.  A lot of people don't understand how little power teachers have.  Also, the gaslighting was intense - after a decade of "balanced" literacy brainwashing, even I had started to think it was good, and I felt guilty when I taught phonics in secret.   [/quote]

Agreed.  I'm in a different state.  I sit on a district curriculum committee that is watching our district pilot curriculums.

When my oldest was in K, they were full guided reading and also a dysfunctional handwriting/printing system called D'Nealian.  My mom (former teacher) gave us phonics-based texts she used to teach me.  Both of my kids read well but their handwriting was spoiled because we did not drill them on that.

Now my district has abandoned these things that I complained about years ago, my trust in the Administration's independent judgment is lessened.[/quote]

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