Gee, this could be a test case for whether schools have a responsibility to make sure kids have learned a minimal amount. You hear so many stories, especially about inner city schools, where kids graduate and are functionally illiterate. Whether a lawsuit is the answer, we’ll see what happens with this one.
Gee, ya think the illiterate one will seek big $$$ damages? Illiteracy is not synonymous with stupidity.
Ouch! My mother is from Sissonville, WV. She turned out alright. She retired as a Lt. in the Virginia Sheriff’s Department in Richmond, VA.
Looks like some of them may have grounds to take me up on it!
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Every year the results of testing showed that the vast majority of the students in his high school ( and about to enter) were essentially illiterate and innumerate. At the planning meeting at the beginning of the year, my brother would always stand and suggest to all the teachers that what was needed here was a program to teach this kids ***basic** reading and math. He was always ignored.
Instead of teaching basic reading and math to those illiterate and innumerate students, the principal and liberal/Marxist teachers insisted on preparing courses as if these kids had adequate skills, which of course they didn’t.
My brother, in his math and physics classes, used his course materials to teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals, and he took every opportunity ( using his curriculum) to teach basic phonics.
My brother was very popular with his students. Even in the worst of the worst schools in America, students do appreciate teachers who will meet their needs.