Uh Oh…

I should have waited until the coffee percolated before I opened my email. Caffeine puts a better glow on the day. My eyes were still adjusting to the new morning when I opened the regular EdWeek teaser designed to reel in real paid subscribers.

SoR has been tiptoeing around it. But it is coming for writing.

Omg. Boosting students literacy? Is that what schools are doing? Boosting? Is that, like, teaching from behind?

I’ve paid my dues listening to Reading League and the Rocket Scientists YouTubes bound and determined to reduce comprehension in the classroom to the phoneme, its lowest common denominator. There are companion YouTubes that reduce composition to scribing, its most primitive factor, in a zeal to focus all available light on the orthographic processor.

Structured writing instruction? What is that? How many “structs” do you need to spell micromanagement and its cousins learned helplessness, intellectual anesthesia, and audience dysphoria?

Are you ready for dysgraphia?