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I'm not sure what specifically is meant by phonics. My grandma taught first grade for 30 years, ending around 2000. She said when phonics came in "that's just teaching reading" and when phonics went out "well, obviously we still have to teach how the alphabet works" and when phonics came in again "eye roll". So, whatever the school leadership says, my guess is kids are learning phonics.
A lot of kids were taught to read badly. There's this whole "whole word" and "cuing theory" approach to reading that doesn't work very well. https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
Apparently 65% of fourth graders aren't proficient at reading (as of the linked source from 2022)
Back in the day, we learned phonics and syllables, and the general proper way to spell, pronounce and enunciate words.
Today people are lazy, and say shit like ROTFLMFAO, and expect everyone else to know what that letter salad means.
That's early 00s speak tho.
I said back in the day. I was born in 1982, back when people Xeroxed their memes and knew how to spell out things like Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Fucking Ass Off.
Xerox?! In my day we only had those faded-ass mimeographs, stinky sheets of blurry purple letters :P
...and we learned phonics in Canada in the late 70s.
Back when you had to upload your memes via scantron
Hey now, the fresh ones smelled pretty good!
Ah, we actually had those purple mimeographs in gradeschool! Yep, the quality was shit, but it worked.
I just figured more people would remember Xerox. ๐คทโโ๏ธ