The prophetic words of German playwright, poet, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805 pinpointed what has gradually happened in American public schools over the past hundred years:
“ It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal the mind of a nation), The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.”
Parents, your leaders have paid a high price for failure. The United States spends over $900 billion annually on K-12 education. Funds controlled by the Education Mafia (the “EM”), the creators and the administrators of the psychological poison that indoctrinates our children with the curricula created by UNESCO and the Department of Education, chosen textbooks, and, by proxy, the teachers’ union. Sam Blumenfeld, co- author of Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children, revealed in 2011:
“The great tragedy in America is that the vast majority of Americans who acquire school-induced dyslexia are unable to develop their full potential as productive human beings.”
In his 1973 book, “The New Illiterates,” Blumenfeld explains how dyslexia is caused. The sight method forces the right brain to perform left-brain functions, creating new illiterates. The current curriculum introduces kindergarteners to reading by utilizing flash cards. The flash cards have a picture of an image with the word spelled out underneath to induce memorization; teaching English, a language based on phonemes, 44 distinct sounds combined to make deciphering words, as it is an ideographic language like Chinese. The people in charge of teaching, impart to the child vowel sounds and ABC’s are not needed when memorizing the configuration of the word. Without the building blocks of sound, the English-speaking child can only see a picture and ignore the key to reading, viewing the text from left to right. Modern methods severely confuse many children who develop lifelong reading impairments.
Sight reading was developed in the 1830’s by Rev. Thomas Gallaudet to teach deaf and mute people to read. Boston educators at the time created a cohort to try a new method of whole-word reading rather than phonics with mainstream schoolchildren. By 1844, Boston schoolmasters urged a return to the phonics system.
In 1929, neuropathologist Dr. T. Orton warned in the Journal of Educational Psychology about the harmful and confusing effects of sight reading. Orton describes the cerebral physiology effects on the struggling student, “giving rise to far-reaching damage to their emotional life.” He describes how reading, speaking, and writing is a function from one hemisphere of the brain. Sight reading forces an integration of hemisphere function. Students with dyslexia struggle because one hemisphere is underdeveloped. Orton believes, based on his research, that sight reading contributes to reading disability in more students.
For decades, the EM has ignored the warnings of great patriots like Blumenfeld and Charlotte Iserbyt, a former Senior Staff member at the US Department of Education. The sad results the EM has purchased with your tax dollars have touched the lives of people we know. In 1988, even New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger claimed: “Today up to 60 million Americans — one third of the adult population —cannot read their local newspaper.” In 1993, the National Center for Educational Statistics’ study of adult literacy reported that “99 million adults were barely literate.”
All learning starts with reading. Our public education has failed, leaving our children with lifelong learning disorders and emotional problems. Do you recognize dyslexia in your child Today? Parents should consider joining the push to promote homeschooling, which consistently outperforms public schools. If you don’t know where to start, check out Freedom Project Academy at https://youtu.be/s-r7JE0V_yM?t=12.
