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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was this thread started by Lucy? Honestly the evidence that her curriculums delayed and harmed millions of children is quite irrefutable at this point. I have never met an effective teacher who supported her methods. So glad her quackery is finally exposed.[/quote]
I know many teachers who loved teacher the LC curriculum.  It's a very feel good curriculum that focuses on teaching a love of reading.  It's easy for teachers to implement and gives teachers warm fuzzies.  Unfortunately, it doesn't teach the information or skills kids need to be successful.

Most teachers have come around to understanding the flaws and no longer use it, but I think they do miss the LC workshop format because it felt good and was easy to implement in a classroom.  It's a lot more work to get your arms around and implement a content-rich curriculum and some teachers are still really uncomfortable teaching phonics because they never learned how to teach phonics in their training (and may not have even learned phonics themselves in school).[/quote]

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