Phonics is a way of teaching children to read that links the letters of the alphabet, syllables and words to their component sounds. And, (with loud trumpets!) it has finally made its way into the English curriculum for school children. It got there against a background of objections and other white noise resistance from the lunatic left wingers in the teachers’ unions aligned with the ALP, not to mention the academic educationists relied on by State government education departments who displayed blind faith in their “evidence-based” research even in the face of childhood illiteracy which resulted from the whole-word methodology....