With phonics, I can sound out what elephant is and go, oh, I know what that is. We went away from whole word. Candidly, I'm not sure exactly why they're holding onto this thing. It doesn't work. 57% of high school seniors last year could not read at the eighth grade level across America. I mean, this is an existential threat to the United States. And by the way, you know who loves the fact that we can't read when we graduate? Our kids. (17:20–17:25)
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