Let pupils abandon spelling rules, says academic

David is basically a control freak.
H's 'plan' to phoneticize English is simply a means of getting attention here among people who use fake names.

Hey, from the cadence here, I find that you are angry.

Let's face it, would you post as much as you do if you weren't a man on a mission?

Do you ever listen to anyone?

People have complained about your silly spelling for years!

Now, to answer your question . . . which I was going to ignore, but
I want your answers to two other questions on another thread . . .

The questions were asked on another thread where you condemned science
and screamed that race is real and not a social construct.

I just looked for the thread but could not find it and, frankly,
I have far and away too much to do today to waste the time.

In a thread, I stated that DNA research demonstrates that there is no such thing as race.
You replied that I, like the communists and the nazis, use fake science to spread a lie.

I then gave you several links to the work of Dr. Spencer Wells.

I also asked you why it is that you hate science.

You never know anything about science.
You always answer any question about science with I never heard of that.

To me, every citizen today has an obligation to know and understand science.

The rub in that is that leftists are more likely (notice I said more likely and not absolutely)
to be environmentalists than righties.

In other words, to use less energy and to eliminate certain products of technology from their daily lives. They are also more likely to understand the impact that technology has on politics. The right, on the other hand, simply wastes energy and abuses technology (your statement that plastic bags feel good in your hand) without regard to the next person, animal or gas emission.

This thread is about the ridiculous idea of spelling reform.
Now, there is a nation that successfully reformed its spelling after WWII.
However, it was for a language that is of little import to few outside its boundaries.

Why worry about spelling reform when science and technology are so much more important?

I have exchanged communication with so many righties who think that teaching science in schools
should not be made a requirement and that students with lower IQs should be excused from taking science classes.

So, David, find the thread.

Why do you ignore or hate science?

Why is it so important to you that there be different races when clearly,

as I said in that thread, a person in Bejing is more closely related to a person in Sao Paolo
than a poodle is to a pomeranian.

The rub in that is that leftists are more likely (notice I said more likely and not absolutely)
to be environmentalists than righties.

The rub in that is that leftists are more likely (notice I said more likely and not absolutely)
to be environmentalists than righties.

I wish kids had been taught to diagram sentences. Diagramming makes life sooooo easy!

50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice
By Geoffrey K. Pullum

...

It's sad. Several generations of college students learned their grammar from the uninformed bossiness of Strunk and White, and the result is a nation of educated people who know they feel vaguely anxious and insecure whenever they write "however" or "than me" or "was" or "which," but can't tell you why. The land of the free in the grip of The Elements of Style.

So I won't be spending the month of April toasting 50 years of the overopinionated and underinformed little book that put so many people in this unhappy state of grammatical angst. I've spent too much of my scholarly life studying English grammar in a serious way. English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much too important to be reduced to a bunch of trivial don't-do-this prescriptions by a pair of idiosyncratic bumblers who can't even tell when they've broken their own misbegotten rules.

http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497

Over the years, there have been many theories about teaching and learning that were put into practice. What should be remembered is that one method might work for one segment of the population. Not every theory can be applied to everyone.

There was a movement to skip sentence diagramming and just to allow kids to write. As recently as 2005 or 2006, I heard a high school English teacher say that many, if not most, slower students are good writers. Really?!

The Dick and Jane readers followed the whole word method. While we were taught phonics, we had the Catholic school (Dick and Jane grew flowers for a Marian festival) version of Dick and Jane.

I wish kids had been taught to diagram sentences. Diagramming makes life sooooo easy!
Yeah, the above is off topic!