The Washington Times: End the war on phonics at the ballot box in November
The erosion of English reading skills, particularly in public schools, started decades ago with a long-simmering war on teaching phonics. Extended lockdowns, remote learning and other disruptions to the educational environment at the behest of teachers unions only have made it worse. The education establishment writ large should embrace phonics and admit the failure of the “sight word” method of teaching. Instead, they’d rather allow union bosses to set policy, fret about student pronouns and put tampons in the boy’s bathroom.