We educators owe it to our students to utilize the best research and methodology available. Schools should be held accountable for the continued damage they are causing through their utilization of faulty reading methods. Schools are also committing another terrible mistake. Instead of the Pre-K and K teachers offering little children the structure they so badly need, the opposite is occurring. Children who are already lacking in self-control are placed in classrooms where the noise level is deafening.
Graphic images are everywhere.
Children are expected to focus their attention on the task at hand while they are surrounded with distracting stimuli. For children who have not learned to concentrate while they are growing up, such classrooms only serve to hype them up even further. I have often wondered how many of us adults could focus our attention on a presenter while being surrounded with the same distractions. Consider the typical Pre-K or K classroom. Chairs are placed in pods or small groups.