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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholic school for non-Catholics (or non-observant Catholics) is simply for avoiding the poor, brown and disabled. [/quote]

This is so offensive. I am Catholic and send my kids to Catholic school. The people who are not Catholic have often chosen the school because it offers things that the public schools do not - phonics based instruction, arithmetic, cursive, and similar. It also has a lot more rules and expectations of conduct, as well as a big focus on virtues. [/quote]

This is so weird. I mean, imagine thinking phonics is a desirable teaching method or caring about cursive in 2024… Talk about outdated curricula.

But whatever.

This notion that publics don’t teach arithmetic is hilarious though.

Look, I could see the value of going to a private school with a distinctly different approach — say, inquiry-based, game-based, a flipped classroom or some other pedagogy not found in your typical public school.

But phonics??? And cursive??? Saying you want phonics and cursive as if those are some kind of differentiator instead of the regressive methods they are deny that you’re just trying to avoid the brown and disabled kids?

Milk came out of my nose I was laughing so hard.

I cannot believe someone justifies private school tuition for <checks notes> … phonics.

lol [/quote]

Brace yourself, because this is going to come as quite a shock.

In 2024 it is bi-partisan and forward thinking to embrace phonics. People on the far left push it as, yes, a method of improving equity - in Fairfax County the NAACP was at the forefront of the push to include phonics in the curriculum that started in 2022. People on the right of course never stopped appreciating it, especially as it was erroneously right-coded in the 1990s.

[quote]In a virtual meeting that March with Fairfax’s school district leaders, Hampton said the NAACP would “flood the Internet with your poor reading scores for Black and brown students if you don’t take this seriously.” The cause, as activists saw it, was partly “the absence of systematic, cumulative, phonics-based reading instruction in the early elementary classroom,” they later wrote in an open letter. “All the research suggests that this shift would have the most immediate and profound impact on closing the achievement gap.” Some teachers had always incorporated phonics—intentionally sequenced lessons in how to sound out words from letters—but the district had not made it a requirement.[/quote]
(https://hechingerreport.org/naacp-targets-a-new-civil-rights-issue-reading/)

https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-launches-nationwide-partnership-right-read-film-nyc
https://www.therighttoreadfilm.org/about-the-film

Meanwhile handwriting in general and possibly cursive in particular has been shown to boost learning and brain function: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01810/full

So basically the 2000s and 2010s called and they want your regressive views on education back.[/quote]

Love this.

Well, Milky Nose PP? Thoughts?
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