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I have a theory about this as someone who went through teacher education during this time period and also had one child out of six who was able to do this. There are one or two kids in almost every class who can learn to read via whole language, where they just look at a word and recognize it, essentially memorizing a word instantly. You don’t really have to teach them to read. They just pick it up and usually they are reading very early on, three or four years old. Somewhere along the line, somebody noticed that kids could do this and foolishly thought every child could learn to read this way when in fact the opposite is true. Probably 98% need explicit and direct instruction via phonics. I have noticed this trend in education; someone comes up with a new idea, and everyone jumps on board for enough years to mess up a generation of children, before they end up going back to the way things were originally done.





black ppl losing their voting rights in the u.s TODAY!! and kpop stans want to talk abt benefits black ppl get from american imperialism


Update: I think the two auctions I linked below are all time highs for both One Piece manga volumes 103 and 104 in BGS 9.8 grades. Wow. $2,175 for Volume 103 (first appearance of Gear 5 Luffy) and 104 (iconic Gear 5 cover). People are waking up to the manga volumes as long term collectibles, not just the Bandai TCG. x.com/rarefinds/stat…





Who I believe are the most iconic characters in fiction













