and most dont even know how to pronounce..the word CURSIVE....let alone read or write it..?
Sad. I read where only 11% of Baltimore 4th grade students in 2011 could read proficient or higher. If a kid cannot read/lacks the most basic means of learning-he/she has a tough road ahead. After I read that figure the reading stats for HS grads makes sense. How do folks living generation after generation on welfare dare blame others for their failure? I honestly believe it is the easy way out. A neighbor who has spent vast sums sending his daughter to the best catholic schools in the city told me yesterday that she is two months pregnant and has quit college. He believes he has failed as she refuses to get a job, plus insists a prior boyfriend move in his house etc. He is devastated as is the mother.