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Stephen Parker

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Stephen Parker

@ParkerPhonics

Author of 3 FREE phonics books for reading teachers and parents. You can download them at ParkerPhonics.com. Critic of any ideology that harms children.

Boston, MA

Joined October 2017

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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Jul 29, 2025
Reading Teachers & Parents – It’s not difficult to teach a child to read unless you use the wrong method. It should never depend on memorizing sight words or on guessing words from pictures. Do yourself a favor and download one of my FREE synthetic phonics books today.
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Apr 25, 2023
Replying to @esanzi
Absurd. A person who produces sperm is, by definition, a male. A person who produces eggs is, by definition, a female. And sex is not "assigned" at birth, it's observed at birth. How exhausting all this nonsense is.
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Jan 4, 2022
"Your son (or daughter) will learn to read when they're ready." That's about the dumbest & most dishonest thing a reading teacher could ever say to a concerned parent. Almost any child will learn to read as soon as a competent teacher can be found to teach him.
Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Sep 30, 2023
Why did we abandon sentence diagramming? It was only the most effective method for teaching sentence structure and parts of speech ever devised. The nuns in my small Pennsylvania grade school knew this back in the 50s.
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Nov 8, 2025
Replying to @kiraincongress
"We need weapons to survive." No Kira. That is NOT the way for Ukraine to survive. For Ukraine to survive at this point, Zelensky must sit down with the Russians and seriously negotiate an end to this bloody conflict.
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Nov 13, 2025
Replying to @rshereme
1) It's silly to simply repeat your graphic. 2) Russians and Ukrainians are killing each other. 3) The Russians ARE winning on the battlefield. 4) The Russians do not deliberately target civilians. 5) The Ukrainians did deliberately target civilians for years in Donetsk City.
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Oct 19, 2025
Replying to @_JakubJanda
No Jakub. Donbass will be TAKEN by Russia because Kiev persecuted the Russian-speaking people who live there. Do you understand it now?
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Nov 9, 2025
Replying to @IuliiaMendel
No, not true. Over a year ago -- in August 2024 -- Ukrainian authorities started evacuating civilians in Pokrovsk and Myrnograd due to Russian advances. It is Ukrainian soldiers who now occupy these buildings. But then you knew that, didn't you?
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Nov 15, 2025
Replying to @Bricktop_NAFO
Your images, your language, your delusions -- all pitiful.
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Nov 15, 2025
Replying to @Kasparov63
Stick to chess, Gary. Your reasoning skills when it comes to world affairs are that of a reckless amateur.
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Sep 10, 2023
Replying to @_CryMiaRiver
Great response Mia.
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Jul 5, 2023
Effeminate little boys and masculine-acting little girls are perfect, just as they are. Didn’t we all agree, way back in the 80s, that gender stereotypes were meaningless? Now some seriously misguided folks assume these kids must be “trans.” The truth is this: Most of these kids
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Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Aug 3, 2018
The anti-phonics crowd hates the idea of testing a child's ability to read nonsense words like VAP, NAM, SULT, and BLEM. It's a waste of time we're told. A waste of time until the child is faced with reading the words VAPid, dyNAMic, conSULT, and BLEMish. #phonics #teachreading
Stephen Parker
@ParkerPhonics
Jul 26, 2023
You don’t believe "eunuch" is now a gender identity? Go here [tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…] and read Chapter 9 in the new “Standards of Care.” This chapter alone should convince everyone that WPATH is not a serious “professional” association, but rather, is a group of activists.
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