The Cursed Episode
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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractable. This episode. Wendy Wade mentions EA and ghostly gambling, then delves into horrible hexes. Brief Bob picks on pedagogues, loves bonking, blowing off mowers, then brings up Bangle's Bow, Crashes, and Dutchman. Modest Mark drops an early F-bomb, vilifies Villeneuve, but identifies aces and limnic lakes. From trashy teaching. To witchfinder generals. Ha ha ha ha It's time for The Cursed Episode. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractable. I'm today's host. He's gone. I guess I shouldn't have said those words. I upset Bob already. Why would you do that? I was just saying I was today's host.
I was gonna say because I won the last one, but I It just happened, man. He just got robbed. That was at least four or three days ago for the everyone watching and or listening. Like time has passed for
everyone else. You know what they say, time is relative. Someone smart said that once.
What is the opening introduction and premise of The Cursed Episode?
Hey, wait a minute.
I took way longer than I thought it would. Sorry.
I'm back. Hey man, welcome back. Um, yep, I should not have been hosting today, but I am, and uh man, Rob should really have been the one sitting in this chair. It's a nice shirt. Whoa, it keeps
getting better. It's a really good shirt. Oh listeners, he's got a shirt on. Don't worry about it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, it says Distractable. Dictractable. They started teaching phonics again, I heard. They tried the uh whole word approach and you know when kids couldn't read and not know what words were. I uh you kn have you heard about that?
Yes, actually there's a really interesting uh podcast series about how we got to where we are in terms of uh r teaching reading in America and why the current generation, the last couple of generations, have had such worse reading outcomes.
Do you know why they shifted? 'Cause they ruined element OP. That may not be it.
Uh the story I don't I listened to this a while ago. The story basically goes there was a woman who was a teacher, but was not like a researcher, and was like, I think I know a better way to teach kids and just sort of came up with their own system and everybody liked it and everybody got in line behind it, and the book publishers got in line behind it, and once the book publishers get lined up behind a certain pedagogy That's the only thing that gets taught because they're like, buy these books. You have to buy these books. Everyone has to buy these books. Like this lady, I don't think it was malicious. I think she thought she had a better way to teach reading because I think what happened was she came up with a different system than phonics, and she was getting good results.
But she was teaching the kids who didn't learn very well from the phonics type of teaching, which obviously are kids who would benefit from an alternative. alternative teaching modality. Like, sure, that makes sense. But the kids, like the majority of kids, were learning fine from the phonics thing. And they steered completely away from that.
How do the hosts discuss modern reading methods and phonics versus alternative teaching?
And it turns out most people seem to prefer phonics and that this new way of teaching is really good for kids who for whom that does not reach. And it's like not like it's an illegitimate thing. It's just not the only way we should teach kids how to read. Uh, but there's a whole series of like I don't know, this podcast kind of sensationalized it, right? There's a series of like it's a conspiracy and they don't the businesses were trying to kill the old ways of cause they were just trying to sell these new books and make money.
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