Re: TI-H: mind vs. computer

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Subject: Re: TI-H: mind vs. computer
From: Firepower5@aol.com
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:54:45 EST
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In a message dated 12/17/98 3:34:31 PM Central Standard Time,
malluck@bellsouth.net writes:

> > Did you learn to read by Whole-Language or Phonics?
>  It really pisses me off. I was first taught the phonics system (you
>  remember the letter people and all that good stuff) then the yuppie Cobb
>  county parents decided to switch the county to the whole language system.
>  We'll that really screwed me up and now I cant spell / read worth a damn.
>  Thank "a higher power" (more pc then god :) ) for spell checkers.
I learned whole-language, and now our teachers are expecting us to know
freakin' phonics, for vocabulary tests and stuff.  I don't have any idea where
to place the goddamn accent marks!!!

Rob Hornick

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