"The teachers felt like curriculum robots—and pushed back. “This seems dehumanizing, this is colonizing, this is the man telling us what to do,” says Weaver, de

"The teachers felt like curriculum robots—and pushed back. “This seems dehumanizing, this is colonizing, this is the man telling us what to do,” says Weaver, describing their response to the approach. “So we fought tooth and nail as a teacher group to throw that out.” It was replaced in 2015 by a curriculum that emphasized rich literary experiences. “Those who wanted to fight for social justice, they figured that this new progressive way of teaching reading was the way,” he says."[1] This quote seems almost absurd on its face, but I've seen other articles that mirror the sentiment. Essentially, teachers didn't like the "robotic" and "dehumanizing" drilling in phonics, and some EdD's provided them with a comforting "progressive" alternative that was stamped with the authority of the academy. [1] https://archive.ph/2022.08.12-141010/https://time.com/6205084/phonics-science-of-reading-teachers/#selection-1075.110-1075.176 https://archive.ph/2022.08.12-141010/https://time.com/620508...