There are important conventions and traditions in academic writing. We are supposed to be polite.

The problem comes when somebody is recommending something evil or foolish. Sight-words are both. Politeness is no longer a logical option. Let's focus on telling the truth.

We are in the very ridiculous position of discussing sight-words as if they are remotely intelligent. They are not. All you have to do is think of memorizing 100 license plates or 100 chemical formulas. Then you have some idea what a first grader is up against.

Nobody learns to read with sight-words. Virtually nobody. The more verbal kids eventually figure out the phonetic content in words. So maybe they don't learn to read until the third or fourth or fifth grade; but it works out. If you don't mind wasting three years in the kid's life. The less verbal kids remain functional illiterates. We have tens of millions of them because our Education Establishment is--dare we say it?–evil.

Of all the options for improving K-12, the main one is to improve reading, and the simplest way is to eliminate sight-words entirely.

Please, everyone can help in this project. Simply take 10 minutes to understand the basics and then you are a player.

K-12: Sight-Words are a Sick Joke

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/k12_sightwords_are...