This may just be a formatting thing: I didn't mean to say that Phonics is good because it is both time tested and time proven, rather that it is time tested (st

This may just be a formatting thing: I didn't mean to say that Phonics is good because it is both time tested and time proven, rather that it is time tested (stop) and proven (stop). I edited my above comment to try and reflect that intention better. Something that both works for multiple generations (time tested) and has been observed to be particularly effective (proven) should require any alternative method to provide significant amounts of proof to be unseated from standard curriculum. Having survived as a teaching method for a while is necessary but not sufficient.