Re: It's been in the bin all this time...

On 4/12/99, Mia S. wrote: "Which brings me a little problem I have with my
kids at school: they bring home phonics worksheets that expect them to pick
the correct pictures that go with the sounds being studied, and I
frequently have to explain, "yes, I know we say it this way, but they
expect you to circle that picture." And, to make matters worse, there's
always the matter of (a) figuring out what the stupid picture is supposed
to be and (b) running into pictures that appear to make no sense because
they apparently expect you to associate a word like "pop" with a picture of
a "soda". :) Who gets to decide about these things???"

Hah! And when I was in lower school, our spelling book was printed in the
South and BOY was that obvious to Rhode Islanders. The book actually had
phonetic spellings like GRYN for 'grain!' I mean, you do expect annoying
News English forms, but that is like making everyone learn Rhode Island-ese
(car /k'a:/, youths /yuwts/, How are you? /ha:wa:y@?/). And yes, somehow
they also managed to refer to soda as 'pop' there, too, although god knows
that was probably the publisher's idea of multiculturalism.

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BB
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