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Letters To The Editorsf 1 !ea•-rt-dcinThe Parents’ TaskSir: How can troubled parents solve the, reading problems of their children? This question isasked in. many letters to the editor. ‘First, let us see what the parents propose. They say that bringing back the old-fashioned phonetics would solve the problem.Phonetics, 'as .the dictionary says, is a science dealing with speech sounds, not with letter sounds. Obviously, it is good for rhetoric, not for reading or writing. Therefore it has no place in our present.educational system.My solution to this problem is a very simple one: The use -of “phonics (not to be mistaken for phonetics!) Phonics simply deal with symbols' (letters) sound. You may find them in any good dictionary. In a dictionary you can .find a list of phonics — forty-three sounds for all languages. Then, you can help the childrento get it into their heads. This can solve the problem ofhard reading. ‘Winnipeg Mike Krycuncontrol • the expression, of these opinions, in. th'e’press has somehow, raiher mysteriously, it' appears, been uselt;l to keep such opinions onthe' wishy-washy level.:. The entire situation has been _a disgrace UK academic standing in the City ol Winnipeg and can be or could have been — only washed :out by the re-instatement of all' professors who. have resigned, and the resignation of-the persons responsible for this disgraceful affair.Winnipeg Myrtle B. Goochi1
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