Why don't American high schools teach phonics?

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Another reason that phonics aren't taught in high school is that English is not a terribly phonetic language. If you've never seen it, look up the “I love Lucy” scene involving Ricky reading a story that uses almost every way that “ough” can be pronounced: through, though, bough, enough, etc.
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While phonics has triumphed in the battle between phonics and whole language in American schools, some teachers don't enjoy teaching a strict phonics curriculum, and some say that phonics doesn't focus enough on comprehension.
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While phonics has triumphed in the battle between phonics and whole language in American schools, some teachers don't enjoy teaching a strict phonics curriculum, and some say that phonics doesn't focus enough on
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As English is their native language they need not learn separate phonics..
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Why don't American high schools teach phonics? Because if you have not learned to read by high school, you probably cannot learn to read using phonics. Contrary to many bloggers and rumor-mongers, phonics was and is still the main way reading is taught in America.
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Why don't American high schools teach phonics? Because if you have not learned to read by high school, you probably cannot learn to read using phonics. Contrary to many bloggers and rumor-mongers, phonics was and is still the main way reading is taught in America.
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