2007
We Can Agree on “The Big Five” in Reading Instruction
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by Nancy Salvato
Most parents are pleased to hear, "…plays nicely with others," when their children are assessed in preschool or kindergarten. Getting along is a skill that will transfer throughout our lives. On the flip side, it’s hard to be around people with nothing positive to say. Beware the other -all too common- colloquialism, "If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all."
Nowadays, in order to get along, people are told what they must believe, who they must accept, and what they cannot say. Society is losing the option of going against the politically correct grain. Daring to disagree with the majority or minority, public figures find themselves the subject of personal insults. Most assuredly, this is not what the founders and framers had in mind when they formed a government which would encourage a balance between individual rights and community. Those who wrote our constitution wanted to protect the rights of the majority and the minority.
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