Last week we went to a birthday party where the people who's birthday we were celebrating was suppose to read their birthday cards. The youngest was 12, the oldest was in his late thirties.
None of them were able to read without stumbling over words and getting help.
One of our grandchildren was struggling with reading in the second grade, so we bought some reprints of old Catholic school readers and spent some time with her. She’s reading fine now and knows a lot of biblical stories.
BTW, I recall a study that was conducted a few years ago on the greatest predictor of literacy in children. It wasn’t reading to them and it wasn’t early childhood education. The children who read the best came from homes that had a lot of reading material in them.
I’m sorry to hear that.