Teaching phonics improves literacy. Dumping phonic degraded literacy. Despite massive empirical evidence (science, math, reality, oh my!) Oakland school district (where else?) is hostile to phonics education 'cuz
People on the Right are perceived as liking it
Phonics constitutes colonization
Teachers don't like acting like "The Man" (Yeah, put the kids in charge)
Phonics is a right-wing conspiracy to limit literacy so the these kids can be dictated to (remember the data?)
The pandemic and the politics of phonics – HotAir