in elementary school, which basically force a high school-style literacy program on students who really need to know the basics in how to read in order to enjoy reading, helped to contribute to the explosion of students in special education programs.
"Balanced literacy" and all of the other "whole language" programs are total junk. Children really need to have basal anthologies in school which also tie in with phonics (REAL phonics, not Marie Clay-style pseudophonics which is NO phonics at all), grammar, and spelling and are done in a sequential manner.
Ken Goodman, the "guru" of "whole language," has done more damage to public education than almost anybody in the past fifty years, including even the privatizers.
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Actually, it isn't so much a plot to get rid of veteran teachers as it is some naive belief by crackpots who think reading and writing are as "natural" as speaking and listening, when in fact both of the former MUST be explicitly taught.
My old school district was infested with this kind of rot until the other rot, NCLB, came along.
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