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Reading is fundamental

posted by Zed on February 27 2008 07:11

A man is claiming he taught high school for 17 years while illiterate.

For 17 years Corcoran taught high school for the Oceanside School District. Relying on teacher’s assistants for help and oral lesson plans, he said he did a great job at teaching his students.

“What I did was I created an oral and visual environment. There wasn’t the written word in there. I always had two or three teacher’s assistants in each class to do board work or read the bulletin,” said Corcoran.

I find this story hard to swallow, though it would also be an odd thing to lie about. (Then again, he’s made his current career out of being the formerly illiterate teacher who promotes literacy.)

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