Reading
Sir.—l see that Dr Geoffrey Palmer is advocating a reading recovery programme by employing the unemployed primary teachers. It is interesting to learn of a disease called "reading." However, as the inability to read is in epidemic proportions because of the wrong medicine (poison?) prescribed by the training colleges and administered by the teachers, is it not folly to give the patients more of the same? He is following Alice down the rabbit hole searching for Wonderland and will end up in
Never Never Land. How different the story would be if Alice could not have read "Eat me” or "Drink me," but in those days little girls could read. Maybe when people have children again, they will demand that the Government bring back the successful methods of the past when children were not thought to have indescribable illnesses because the teachers were wrongly trained. — Yours, etc., V. H. ANDERSON. February 2. 1983.
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