Thanks jenjoysoup... I am 38 and just don't remember anything about phonics growing up but I also think I was going through school during the time that they were changing everything up. My 4th - 6th grade school had no real classrooms. It was an open building but my small town bought the idea of the building but then put up every make shift wall and divider they could to carve out rooms and taught in the old style which meant there was a lot of noise factor that didn't go well with the way they instructed.
I also did not get the typical structuring of sentences and dividing it out to learn what is a noun, adverb, etc. So I still am pathetic at sentence structure.
So I am not shocked it was around while I was groawing up but the way my school district picked and chosed their methods it really was a pathetic process.
