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Yeah, I wonder if part of the reasons are that we are not attending to the change in generations of children. Some teachers began to use graphic novel (manga) instead of classic books to get children to read. Of course they will pick manga that has a lots of words in it, so in a sense it's no difference from reading a novel. Get past the biased thoughts is the tough part. Students understand something that happens during their era better than something that happened more than 100 or 200 years ago.
Those teachers are smart, that's one way to get students to read. Wish my teacher done that when I was in school. I was very bored with books they picked. Especially that hateful book "The Great Gatsby." Grrr.
I wonder if depending on phonetic so much can actually hurt some children? I was told that's the first method of teaching children how to read and speak. That never made sense to me, because in the end, some people can't even tell the difference between "than" and "then" or "lose" and "loose."
As someone said, "one size fits all" does not work very well.
So for some students, that may work, but I believe that it can't be working for all students.
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