Quote Originally Posted by agamemnus View Post

So what I am saying is that I am not against the idea of a very loose phonics instruction, but I am against the idea of taking a sentence and then having the class try to add silly symbols to it and then try to sound out the sentence like a bunch of pantardcakes.
That's not the way phonics is taught here, at all. Phonetics is primarily used by speech therapists.

If they were doing that to you in elementary school I can see why you would be entirely against phonics instruction.