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Show - I 'il W'-p-- ' Tin Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday, July Re jijLili y s C iil?. Max Rafferty ll was inevitable, I guess. For 30 years, the reading "experts' have been solemnly assuring us that the look- ,t "whole say, "lo- f word, By Dr. s ap-- i to proach reading was tar superior to &. iuslralmg Academic Failure? Confronted by massive pupil inability to read much of anything more advanced than Dick jump," hes decided that reading should be made until optional junior high school. In other words, elementary children would be taught to read only if they wanted to. More Surprises The plubieiu with ilaiii- - tional education is that it subjects millions of children to failure and frustration at an early age," says the incredible Dr. Rohwer, presumably with a straight face, and goes on to add a comment which for sheer, sublime asininity must rank high i" the annals of education: "My approach would sign.fi-eauiiuiiiiiuisu. ii not com old Jthe f f a s hi o n e d twi phonics Dr. Rafferty wri pletely remove, the experience of academic failure." That it would, Professor. After all, if there is no subject maUer to learn and no skills to perfect, failure is pretty impossible, isn't ding-donge- d it? would Junior and do in elementary school? W hy "work in studies oi pm tn ui.u fuM in.iiion lu What Susie them, and succeed in terms of the quality and completeness of the work done, Professional baseball lore" is suggested as one such area of total fascination. May I diffidently propose in addition such major activities as big 'time wrestling, TV soap operas and horror movies? The citizens of the future simply must possess the leach reading school. " There's more. Then there's a character from the University of New Mexico named Dr. Russell Snyder, who also wants us tu stop attaching all that importance to reading: Snyder calls the reading onm- process an and plex neural function, innerves that gravely says volved in the reading process t are complicated as all and hence not fully understood. He makes simple reading sound like extrasensory perception. And. of course, tiler TxYupr h unfits to "We must move away from the attitude that if you cannot read it, you cannot loam it Being a poor reader need r.ot prevent academic development." f.itoR tuu.o ? liiree hs iiirowm vnci Why Diot mi me mi mi i mT A 7 0, 1975 'later in bet's Face It Come off it, Doe. How the do you suppose our ancestors all learned how to read: Tie human nervous system hasn't changed in the last few decades, has it? ucv ii get-ou- 1975. Los (Copyright. Angeles Times) ' Jf method wherein indi- v ' i e Brilliant Bassett Decorator Mirrors At l.evitz Savings letters and their vidual AWJfl sounds still count for something. But now that all the statewide and nationwide teals show reading going down the drain and the scores tumbling out of the bottom of the charts, we are starting to hpr (be same 'authorities reassuring us that reading " 4? '.Uve rfW . . c p iB?? i 'T y.ii: i. liiilVf cU U' i 2ll. V Take Dr. William Rohwer, for example. Hes a fellow professor of education, Im sorry to say, and he hails from Berkeley where else? t NEWPORT, R.l. (UPH -lies known as Mr. Peepers. He spent 13 years in prison and was convicted of at least 30 burglaries. While a professional burglar lets you snuggle into a comfort spot, custom shaped to your own liking. 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