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::::This is interesting, but as I mentioned before, I was taught in one of the states with a state mandate, and it worked quite well.  In my experience, teachers have been all too eager to apply phonics.  My experience may not be completely endemic, but unless my experience differs with the vast majority of public-school-educated children in this country, I do think that it is enough to state with some degree of certainty that phonics is alive and well, and any combat between phonics and alternate methods is simply an academic debate between two alternate schools of thought.  It is not a microcosm for liberal versus conservative, or any guerrilla war being fought by the teacher's union.

::::This is interesting, but as I mentioned before, I was taught in one of the states with a state mandate, and it worked quite well.  In my experience, teachers have been all too eager to apply phonics.  My experience may not be completely endemic, but unless my experience differs with the vast majority of public-school-educated children in this country, I do think that it is enough to state with some degree of certainty that phonics is alive and well, and any combat between phonics and alternate methods is simply an academic debate between two alternate schools of thought.  It is not a microcosm for liberal versus conservative, or any guerrilla war being fought by the teacher's union.

== Constance Weaver ==

== Constance Weaver ==