Wasting someone else's time is bad manners at least, and downright evil if it's intentional and the victim doesn't have any time to spare.
The current methods of teaching literacy are wasting children's time. Altho it is not with the specific intention of wasting their time, that is only because nobody is thinking it thru at all. And how much time does any kid have?
Our K to 12 students are forced through archaic rote memorization programs that take at least 3 times as long and are far more failure prone than those in most other countries. Whereas students as early as first grade in Italy, Korea, Germany, etc. are reading about science, math, history and all the other subjects on their own, ours are still learning to read, often thruout grammar school and far too often failing even in high school.
Proven superior literacy training methods, such as Nooalf and Unifon are virtually unheard of in today's primary education community. In spite of a 100 years of definitive proof that rote learning consistently fails with more than 17% of students, no matter how much money is thrown at the problem, administrators and federal education officials can think of nothing better than to ask taxpayers for more money.
Leaning harder on students and teachers has never worked. Progress can only begin when we fix the fundamental problem. The solution is already available at The Nooalf Revolution website. All it takes is enuf thinking people to take their responsibilty to the future seriously.
Dear educators,
Say no to chronic literacy failure and allow teachers to access superior programs that do not rely on old fashioned brute force rote memorization. Nooalf and Unifon are readily available on the internet, so there is no excuse for spending millions for materials that do nothing but repeat past mistakes. Educational publishers employ lobbyists to maintain their monopoly. Our childrens future is at stake!
