Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
by Khaine on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:50AM
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This isn't a free speech issue. This is a matter of fraud. Claiming you have methods of teaching literacy when you don't is fraud. Lying or pressuring congressman to get government grants is equally fraud.
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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
by setgree on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:29PM
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Fraud is generally defined as intentionally deceiving others for personal or financial gain. I think it’s pretty clear here that these people were wrong, and arguably deceiving themselves, but certainly not intentionally deceiving others (which implies knowing true facts and withholding them). And I also think their main aim was to improve the lives of children, not personal enrichment.
Again, not everything that’s wrong or bad is illegal.
Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
by xapata on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:35PM
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Whether they knew or not is something for the courts to decide. A prominent example of this determination is Dominion v Fox, currently on trial.
Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
by Khaine on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:25PM
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Either they were negligent or they were incompetent. In either case, these people should in no way be in positions to advocate for teaching methods or teachers themselves.
Yet, no one has been held accountable. There has not been any reckoning for that teacher who ignored best practice because 'fuck bush', and all the others who advocated for cueing. Lucy Caulkins has made millions peddling techniques that have ruined the lives of 1000s of kids. If this were a drug, you would be demanding the company be out of business.