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Stop phonics r a headache geez
Comment from : @AmandaYee-yn9dk

Because it’s a pain in the ass pointless time waster
Comment from : @AmandaYee-yn9dk

This is why the US Department of Education is failing and should be closed or completely demolished and built again
Comment from : @eyrie4429

I was taught by the phonics method My younger sister was whole word I loved reading and have read hundreds or thousands of books in my lifetime My sister has read less than six And I’m Including books assigned for school She struggles getting through words and remembering information from page to page She was a schoolteacher high school level maths teacher She went into math cuz the other topics required too much reading
Comment from : @catherinesanchez1185

Reading is a privilege, one deserved by all Reading has got me through some of the toughest times I’ve ever experienced
Comment from : @chuckd68

Thanks for cutting into my reading time with this video
Comment from : @teddybear5429

I was under the assumption that reading was en vogue for gen z
Comment from : @pgfinna

Whole language learning is ultimately the progeny of neo-Marxisr Critical Theory, purposefully aimed at dumbing-down generations of people in order to make them more susceptible to being propagandized and directed by the Mother State This dumbing-down also can be used to foster societal destabilization necessary to producing Marx's Communist "utopia" Nothing better erodes established societal norms and structures than stupid people manipulated by Woke (ie neo-Marxist) ideology - as the West is presently demonstrating
Comment from : @nwaikikai

This is worth noting: the UK has had a phonics based teaching approach The result? Children can decide wotds, but choose not to read Evidence suggests reading comprehension and enjoyment has decreased The answer lies in the reading wars pendulum, and an emphasis on phonics when students should be reading to learn, not learning to read Here in NZ we have just adopted a phonics centered "structured literacy" approach, and there is genuine concern students will not need to, or have the time to, tackle challenging text on the critical and analytical level
Comment from : @eugeb3946

The entire premise of Whole Language Learning is almost laughable You have to start with the belief that written language isn’t just a graphical representation of the sounds of a language, but is actually a natural form of communication J
Comment from : @jcolinmizia9161

So how dd the entire Anglosphere just suddenly decide to all together adopt a new way of teaching literacy that would destroy the literacy of the next generations? Seems a little coordinated
Comment from : @ChrisStavros

Yeah, after the US lost the Space Race to the Soviets in 1957, the education budget was substantially expanded for a few years That never happened again!
Comment from : @alanequi2786

Hooked on phonics worked for me 🕺🏿 Lol a little 90's nostalgia But seriously, the way AI is going, its sad to say but its going to be hard to convince a kid they have to read a whole book when AI can make a detailed summary thats easier to absorb and regurgitate They can even listen to audio books, even though that also probably requires a level of focus many of them wont be able to/want to achieve I think the biggest problem is that today's kids are being taught by young adults who didnt grow up reading books Many Gen Z teachers have no clue how to teach kids to read
Comment from : @Yourunkbob

We are reading posts in instagram
Comment from : @LunazulBaraka

Why do all of these videos about literacy sound the exact same and quote the exact same stuff
Comment from : @cheater556

Or in high school you avoided English class like the plague while taking every other advanced placement class because the English teacher reduced every paper by 1 letter grade for every miss spelled word Which means you stopped English classes after basic sentence and paragraph structure But despite this, you passed the Georgia Regents test for English competency first try because they did not take off for miss spelled words
Comment from : @livingrural8165

I started homeschooling my daughter after first grade because they never taught her phonics It was all just memorizing sight words but no one in kindergarten or first grade taught her the sounds letters make in letter teams There were other reasons too, but phonics was a main concern We had to do a lot of hard work to undo the damage that had been done
Comment from : @silencedogood9747

I was raised with phonics I went to a parochial school I joined the Navy for 22 years I retired and went to college I was appalled in my English Lit classes the reading and comprehension abilities of the 18 year olds I was sitting in class At the end of a semester a professor asked if I would provide a list of books for future classes I made suggestions like Catch 24, Of mice and men, Johnny Got his gun, Slaughter House Five and others He actually said that some of these classics would be beyond their abilities
Comment from : @navysailor

I was reading at 3 years old and at 37 I still read everyday My neices and nephews range from 13-19 and none of them have ever read an entire book over 100 pages in their life They think it's dumb and useless I told them if you can read and comprehend properly, there is nothing you cannot learn They laughed at me and said they had YouTube for that Their dad (my brother) doesn't read either and uses the excuse that it's too boring for his fast paced mind People who dont read are dumb
Comment from : @brandocalrissian3294

Modern tech has rewired brains No doubt about that This is a far bigger factor than the reading methodology taught in elementary school
Comment from : @carrite

I guess, when it comes down to it, if you can do your job, who cares,BUT it explains why many companies dont care about degrees anymore In the words of Sonny Corleone to Michael, "What'd you gota college to get stupid?" Today his answer would be, "No my parents and teachers were altruistic over educated generation Xers" In the words of Norm MacDonald, "If you teach second grade, you'd think the qualification to do so would be making it to third grade" A masters degree is required to teach elementary school, talk about elitest, academia, BS Now you can pay for it all in your town/city taxes
Comment from : @Weaveseenthisb4

You are confusing cultural playbooks with stopping reading It is not they can’t they don’t want to because foundational believing is more important than seeing
Comment from : @blueheels

The last time I have read an entire book was Frankenstein and Wizard of Oz in 7th grade because I enjoyed them so much I don't like reading, but teachers usually just present us a handful of pages to read and not necessarily the entire reading material
Comment from : @zandrewmorano10

I spent half of my teenage years reading literature on my bed Rea ding is not only about education, it helps to evolve into an individual person, who is more than the sum of parental demands
Comment from : @moronsmorons8913

This is full of facts and well presented Good job! Thank you for the content I wish society, in whole, would come together to solve issues like reading, learning and education in general rather than being distracted by political talking points that arent actual educational problems
Comment from : @jayjoy331

Theres a far simpler explanation for why elite universities are dealing with this issue, but yeah dude, best to over-intellectualize the issue instead of acknowledge the uncomfortable and obvious Admin decisions that were implemented at the Elite level and spread like wildfire through the university system
Comment from : @griffinsalmon5798

Failing eyesight doesn't help either
Comment from : @stevencasteel6799

I read books I read because of trauma I was allowed to go to the library when my parents were unreasonably strict They were an escape Kids play video games for this reason today
Comment from : @krisseybe

I remember ARGUING with my kids principal about this very issue I ended up taking them out of school and homeschooling them Today, one has a Masters and my other is working towards her PhD so she can be a librarian My oldest doesnt read bc she said university burnt her out on reading My youngest has to read several books A WEEK and is 1000 burnt out on it even though she enjoys the books
Comment from : @FreeFallingGracefully

3:12 bro just said “the data do”brbrI know it’s technically a plural, but you never really hear anyone conjugate around it like one
Comment from : @leonb8991

For a long time in history, people who read were respected and considered desirable They were seen as sophisticated Today they are labelled as nerds, bookworms, etc In most schooling systems around the world it's simply not "cool" to be a reader anymore
Comment from : @Vitruvian_Person

It's too much work to be in school Many of us lose the desire to read after having to do academic slavery and pay for it at the same time in post secondary education
Comment from : @lofasz3328

Yall need to bring back the pizza hut book it program! First though pizza hut needs to go back to the 80's recipe!
Comment from : @dburris2417

Tell us why reading is important? Putting the old standard onto the new isn't necessarily progress Will our offspring need to read in one hundred years from today? Is reading comprehension a necessary skill that most people need? Apparently educators in the public system believe otherwise The divide deepens, keeping down the middle to low and rising the upper to elite Looking at the data, clearly there is a coordinated effort to dumb down the greater public
Comment from : @PalmBeachFlorida24

Excellent video! However, I want to argue with the first point about students at elite universities not being able to read one book within a week It is not that they are not capable of doing so, but it is because there are so many other responsibilities students have Other classes, extracurricular involvement, multiple jobs, taking care of family members, etc It just is not feasible to read a decently long book every week with so many other responsibilities, which is why I'm assuming these students messaged their professor However, I do agree that reading and writing rates are dropping at alarming rates and it is definitely important to spread awareness about!!
Comment from : @saranglee

Honestly bro the problem is short form content and micro content Even as an adult it has tanked my attention span I’m trying to get back into reading because it’s objectively good for you
Comment from : @shadow6543

In my school they started to make us read mandatory book, this was horrible, they let us choose but anyways this was a step to me for hating reading, it took me 10 years to restart reading, now I'm reading 10 to 30 minuts every day, wich helps me to learn about the topics that gonna shape my professional life
Comment from : @user_V983

Do you need to be taught phonics formally?
Comment from : @TathagataMitraTom

I personally do not read as I find it hard to visualize the scenarios so I play video games so I have a story line to follow that actually has the visuals for me as my brain refuses to make them to help me understand been trying a long time to read never get into it due to the lack of visual understanding because my brain won't paint the picture for me
Comment from : @RinShadowstorm

And i couldnt get in to college What a fucking joke When you realize everything is about money, EVERYTHING
Comment from : @Keyfiend

When I was a teenager, I could read Crime and Punishment no problem, and I read it in my spare time for pleasure (I love Dostoevsky) But now I'm an adult working full time, I picked up The Idiot and I could only read twenty pages at a time It was a big strugglebrbrBut Crime and Punishment is imo the better written book, it wasn't engrossing to read The Idiot
Comment from : @AlexQuinn-pg1bd

I'm a history buff and used to have multiple books going at any given time Sadly, my attention span is shot from the interwebs and I haven't been able to hold it together long enough to read a book in years My brain has been physically altered It's kind of like an electronic lobotomy now that I think about it Yuck
Comment from : @VDP207

They read Harry Potter That's all they needbr😒
Comment from : @UPalooza

Not to mention the AI apps out there doing everything so people don't need to construct their own document or email, edit it for length or redundancy, spell check, etc SMH
Comment from : @ccwritesandsnaps9986

I used to read 600 pages per week in Brazil back in 2005 I’m a grad student in Canada and I can see how badly college students are with writing Clearly it’s a systemic issue
Comment from : @vidapolitica8366

I always hated reading because we had to retain information, I had to read to learn and remember When I started reading for myself that wasn't a concern and I could actually enjoy the story as a passing experience
Comment from : @Narko_Marko

I never completed my education and yet I meet many degreed individuals who are less literate and more ignorant than myself They have worse grammar, worse spelling, weak vocabularies and can't form complete sentences
Comment from : @scarlettjoehandsome6130

what if parents taught their kids stuff that would be crazy
Comment from : @Amp5150

Well, well, well, welcome back phonics lol What a bunch of maroons And don’t forget common core math, double lol
Comment from : @tekay44

Not sure if its can't so much as won't I can read fine, but when I was in College 15 years ago I never read those domb text books eitherbrThose text books are a dry pain in The butt
Comment from : @greatmolanko

I love reading , had to fight to get focus back
Comment from : @reetvahesalu5790

Just the way they planned itbrGoing for legal slavery now
Comment from : @Marcus-e9k2y

Have the teachers fallen prey to any of this literacy decline? Do they know how to teach books long form? Genuinely curious if this is getting better or worse -
Comment from : @SketchyParker

I read 44 books in 2025 Paper books…real books No fiction I’m retired, 55, and have no college degree
Comment from : @ecr-9341

It's not that they CAN'T read, it's that they WON'T read brBullsh-t that kids at Colombia or Harvard can't "read a book" Bullsh-t My kid's in a top university, it's competitive and challenging as hell or you get out
Comment from : @SlimKeith11

How to Read More Book with Cal Newport is a great follow-up to this
Comment from : @mrsgw79

EU countries never abandoned phonics Just an fyi
Comment from : @KeithC_81

Dan ran to the van to meet Pam
Comment from : @Toogoodtobetrue458

I'm so grateful to my mom for instilling a love of reading in me, getting Hooked on Phonics for me in the 90's, and letting me watch her play PC games Games like Planescape: Torment, Diablo and Fallout had scrolling text with voiced dialogue that introduced me to words and concepts a 6 year old wouldn't normally have been exposed to I entered Kindergarten having already read The Hobbit My dad and uncle are functional illiterates and that could have been me
Comment from : @OMGhappiness

reading is just too boring compared with other stuff brFew years ago when i was still in school a choice between some 1700s novel and just going outside to hang out was too obvious School books, which i read from time to time because forced myself were really boring too and full of water Which didnt help lol
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Comment from : @kennethchao1678

You MUST fix your microphone It's too distracting
Comment from : @akpaul42

I was the whole language learning experimen after I left school I taught myself and became a avid reader into my old age
Comment from : @GJP1169

I blame George W Bush
Comment from : @Tunda2

I grew up in the 70s and I learned how to read by phonics In 2nd grade there was another girl in my class and myself were allowed to read the upper elementary books at my school I was in elementary school and was told that I read on a 11th grade level I loved to read when I was a kid
Comment from : @jeannetteashlin1725

This video makes no sense it was never explained why reading a book is too hard
Comment from : @Pfestive

Whole language - a victim of that failed experiment With hard work, became a teacher for 41 years Lots of phonics now being taught herebr🦘🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺🦘
Comment from : @robertthomas3777

7:23 so…does that mean you are part of the problem now?
Comment from : @prufrock1977

Because now there’s TV, movies, video games, other hobbies Not to mention the fact that everything is expensive now so people are working more brThis isn’t complicated People aren’t any dumber They just have less time for books I like reading and often times it feels guilty to take an hour out of my day simply to read You can’t read while doing chores
Comment from : @jimjo8541

A STEM education starts in first grade Education is not fun it's hard work
Comment from : @falconinflight6235

Because you would have stories told to you anyway, probably from someone who is unpaid?
Comment from : @JosephTurcotte-d6o

There's not a shred of truth in what you're saying The answer is phones and video games Many people learn to read from their parents and there's no systematization at all
Comment from : @OhWowThatsACoolMap