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Teaching Reading Using Phonics Eleven-year-olds in Clackmannanshire,
Scotland, who used the "synthetic phonics" method were three years ahead in
reading. ... A seven-year study by Hull and St Andrews universities also
found pupils were on average almost two years ahead of others in Scotland at
spelling. [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4255069.stm ]

Well.

What a surprise!

The failure of the teaching profession to employ phonic methods for teaching
reading over the past few decades has resulted in inestimable damage.

It has also been a major cause of the recent decline in the achievement of
boys.

But this is exactly what the feminist-indoctrinated staff at the
teacher-training colleges have been aiming for - yep; a decline in the
performance of boys.

Despite all the evidence (and there are mountains of it) accumulated over
the years demonstrating that non-phonic techniques were decidedly inferior
methods for both sexes - but particularly for boys - the educationalists
demanded that phonics were not taught at school.

Not mentioned in the above article was the finding that an 18-week
phonically-structured approach to reading led to the children immediately
being 7 months ahead compared to where they would otherwise have been, and
that by the time they were 11 years old this lead had increased to three
years!

Yep: Three years!

(This would have happened because by learning the phonic approach children
can develop their own reading skills as time goes by.)

Furthermore, not only were the boys now found to be equal with the girls
when it came to reading performance, they had actually edged ahead of the
girls when it came to spelling.

But the most important thing that AH's readers must understand is that the
diabolical way in which reading has been taught for the past three decades
led to a large decline in the reading skills of both boys and girls, and
that the feminist-indoctrinated teacher-training colleges nevertheless
insisted on pursuing this course because the boys would be significantly
disadvantaged compared to the girls.

And this is what the organism of the feminist-dominated education system has
been aiming for.

Well, with any luck, the demand for the proper teaching of reading will now
be so great that the teacher-training colleges will be unable to continue
with their destructive agenda in this area.

But men's activists must not become too complacent, because there are a
whole fistful of areas in education wherein boys will continue to be
purposefully disadvantaged by the educationalists - with Mathematics now
being an area that is almost dying a death in the west because it is being
taught so badly; once again, in order to keep the boys down.

This is not an exaggeration.

This is not one of AH's hyperbole.

This is something that is as clear as daylight to anyone who has looked
closely at what has been going on in the world of education.

For the past three decades, just about every single card in the educational
book has been played specifically to disadvantage boys relative to girls,
regardless of the cost to all children and to society as a whole.

And long time AH readers might also recall that it was the various
shenanigans going on in the world of education - rather than in the world of
gender issues - that initially opened his eyes to the sheer awfulness of
feminism and political correctness.

(Also see AH's Lerning to Reed [
http://www.angryharry.com/esLerningtoReed.htm ] .)




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