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Larissa Phillips

@larissaphillip

Founder of Volunteer Literacy Project, structured phonics curriculum teaching reading to adults. Writing @quillette @thefp Also rural life & horses.

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It will never stop shocking me how many literacy outlets across the country simply do not offer a basic literacy program for adults.

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A further explanation of Chesterton's fence: We took down the fence, and the animals who'd grown up with the fence stayed away from the fence line. So, you see? The fence was unnecessary. But the next generation didn't know about the fence line.

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I only hear about how terrible public school is in the US, so it was refreshing and surprising to hear my friend, who left Ukraine two years ago with her then-15 year old son, rave about her son's high school experience here. Some things they love: - Teachers don't need to be

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We do know why we put male rapists in women’s prisons and cut off the breasts of 13-year old girls who have been brainwashed to believe that doing so would turn them into boys — because of the tireless efforts of the leadership of institutional America and the dominant political

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I lead a reading class with a group of women, who range from basic-reading level to college prep students. We're always reading a book. The more proficient readers take turns doing the reading, so it's OK to have very low-skilled readers in there with us. Right now we're reading

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The horror of endless drilling is a like a ghost story that's been passed down through the generations. No one actually remembers endless drilling or the torture of being bored to death via phonics instruction, but the stories persist.

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One of the women in the reading class I lead for adult students mentioned To Kill a Mockingbird last night, hoping we'd never read "that horrible book". I asked what she didn't like about it. She'd never read it, but she'd heard it was horrible. Another student, who went

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I don't think the left realizes the degree to which giving puberty blockers and sex-changes to kids who wanted to change genders was a test of moral and intellectual integrity, and that test utterly destroyed the moral and intellectual credibility of everyone who failed it.

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English is a famously difficult language to learn to speak and read, but I'm trying to learn a few words in Thai and they have 32 vowels, 5 vocal tones, and no spaces between words. OK, should be easy.

English is a famously difficult language to learn to speak and read, but I'm trying to learn a few words in Thai and they have 32 vowels, 5 vocal tones, and no spaces between words. OK, should be easy.
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Reading the final chapters of "When Things Fall Apart" with a group of adult literacy and GED students. A student reading out loud was having trouble with pronunciation, and I kept highlighting words, breaking them down, showing syllables, etc. She got to "tusk" and couldn't

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Interesting piece! Good for him. Also, so prolific! I find the "well I never" reactions of Alex Perez and Percival Everett stuffy and annoying. JK Rowling let people think she was male because they couldn't handle a woman writing about the fantasy world. The Brontes and George

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My smart. reasonable leftist friends are starting to leave the conversation. I think they're not ready to officially reject the brand, but it's getting harder and harder to defend the points. I keep hearing "I haven't really been following that." It's just a matter of time. 😄

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We keep hearing sane rational voices urging the Democrats to find a moderate message that appeals to more than just 22-year old activists. And we get this. Elizabeth Warren saying the same.

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Incredible, amazing article. It's shocking how under-diagnosed endometriosis is, and how narrow the world of infertility medicine still is. What a great piece!

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Real progressives would infiltrate the manosphere, convert the men, and raise a big brood of progressive babies. These people are going to purify themselves out of existence within one generation.

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Fairy tales are so weird and deep because the thought of a modern-day beautiful mom helping her adolescent daughter transition gives real poison apple vibes.