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This really makes me sad although I know it is more prevalent than most of us would imagine. I am feeling all blessed and all because I am literate....my son is, too.
I teach a basic public health course to high school students in Watts and oh, boy. Most of the students do fine (save for a bunch of grammatical errors, etc.) but there was one student who could not read and could barely write. I didn't know until I asked him to read a paragraph from a book or something to that effect and he..he just couldn't. I had to apologize to him (I just felt bad b/c he was on the spot) and let him know it wouldn't happen again. I had to play it off like "I know it's hard to read when you are tired..." and went ahead and read it for him.
Now he is like 17 ad not a grown a$$ man but he will be a grown a$$ man one day...
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