One of the most shameful practices of
American Educators is the fact that they bury their heads into the ground when
they are cornered by questions they cannot respond to.
Reid Lyon and David Boulton of the Children
of the Code fame are just two of the many.
Timothy Shanahan ignores comments which he
cannot respond too.
The latest of such Americans is Denise Olivera Schira, Director of
NYC Department of Education,
who decided to cut me off as a connection when I posted a relevant
comment in one of her posts which spoke about American History and Shameful
practices.
She had posted an article on American History and Shameful practices.
My comment was:
“What do you mean by American History and shameful practices? Some of the current Americans are just as shameful in their practices.”
I had not mentioned any names but she deleted me from her contact list.
By cutting me off or burying her head in
the soil like David Boulton, has she not practiced a shameful act? Isn’t it a
shameful practice to cut off someone instead of having a discussion?
She is the director of Education of NYC. How
do we expect the reading wars to end if people like the Director of Education
refuses to listen to someone who wants to share his knowledge on the ways and
means to end the Reading Wars?
Similarly,
I have made many comments in Timothy
Shanahan’s blog posts over the years which were never responded to. On
14.2.2020 I made another comment and have yet to get a response. My comment is
relevant to what was posted by Timothy.
The good thing about Timothy is that he
does not delete the comments unlike David Boulton and many others.
Here is my recent comment:
Luqman Michel Feb 14, 2020 07:28 PM
Tim, I have shared with you what I have
learned from teaching more than 50 so-called dyslexic kids on a one on one
basis as of 2017. You had said that teaching 50 kids cannot apply universally.
As of now, I have taught more than 70 such
kids and still maintain, by having observed them and 'interviewing’ them, that
they shut-down from learning to read because the pronunciation of phonemes of
letters are taught wrongly.
The main reason why the 'Reading wars' have
been going on for decades is that pronunciation of phonemes of letters are
taught wrongly.
Kids shut-down when they get confused. Many
kids interviewed on Children of the Code 15 years ago had clearly said that
they were confused.
Why were they confused? They were confused because
they could not connect the sounds of letters taught to the words they heard.
After writing about this since 2010 and
commenting on blogs such as yours I have now produced YouTube videos on this
and you are welcome to listen to them and decide.
There are corroborative pieces of evidence
in my blog to back up my findings.
Here is my first video on why kids shut
down from learning to read.
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