ABSTRACT
The spate of verbiage poured forth, in counter-offensive and justification, by "educators" and "educationalists," is beyond computation without an electronic calculator. Since parents began to protest that their children were not being taught to read, write, spell, or master elementary arithmetic in the public schools, the response from the teaching profession has been overwhelming. Once upon a time teachers sternly admonished parents not to teach their children at home because that would conflict with the methods used in school. Home-taught children, able to read, would throw a school class into dire confusion. Having learned speech, learning to read is literal child's play. Presumably the teacher would impart to the parents the method by which the children failed to learn to read in school. A child naturally accepts parental authority, and will do the best it can if it is not terrified or distracted.
