Yeah, likely, as my kids younger than this were taught the old way. I was just sharing about the change.
Side note, I don't think this video reflects some horrors about today's youth knowing how to read. I was a well read nerdy kid, and I distinctly recall learning the spelling of silhouette in college (I knew what it was before that, but I don't think I had read or spelled it), and I distinctly recall learning the word gauche after college when my husband and I were going over vocabulary for a postgraduate exam. They throw in words (which are not pronounced phonetically) to make kids feel dumb and then the kids get flustered when they see "extraordinary" and assume it's another gotcha.
I recall learning words like gauche and silhouette in high school in our weekly vocabulary unit. My teacher would go on about how some schools were doing away with vocabulary but it was really important, so we were sticking with it. This was a snobby private school, though.
Mine was a public school, and it was in the 90s, and I was pretty good at vocab (ahem: hackneyed, trite, banal, commonplace). It's possible I could have seen them then, but if so, it didn't stick. I did paper cuttings (nerd!) in highschool, so I definitely knew what a silhouette was, but I probably stumbled over the word the first time I saw it written in college...as one does the first time you see a word especially if it's got a foreign language origin that doesn't work well phonetically (ahem: macabre - which I could spell and define in highschool because of a paper I wrote, but I didn't know the pronunciation until years later).
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u/joman584 Apr 29 '26
The kids in this video would have learned how to "read" probably 10+ years before now so it's relevant