(54%) of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level

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6. Amen! My wife taught public school for 21 years before moving to private for the last six...

You put a nickel in her on this subject, and you get a dollar’s worth. She’s passionate about it.

She’s always taught 2nd through 6th grades. She loves kids those ages. She says the vast majority of poor readers have parents who are not engaged in working alongside the teacher to help remedy the problem. And she’s not talking anout the single mom who works two jobs and who lacks time. Even that mom, if she cares and is determined to help when she can, can affect the child positively. My wife says she can work with mom to figure something out.

It’s the parents who frankly dont give a shit their kid cant read who are the problem. And there are many of them…at all socioeconomic levels.

To be sure, there are schools, administrators and teachers who are content to pass illiterate kids on to someone else.

Astonishingly, they dont flunk kids. In fact, she says that word is almost vulgar in academic circles.

There is no other skill more important our educational system should impart than reading.