[kjam22]

These kids that have attended 9 years of public school and can't read..... you don't think their parents knew that?? Why didn't their parents take the time to teach the kid to read if the school wasn't?? You should buy a vowel.

[Henrietta]

"Why didn't their parents take the time to teach the kid to read if the school wasn't?? "

Probably because they figure that they are paying thousands of tax dollars a year to people like your wife, who should be teaching them, or holding them back if they won't buckle down and do their work. They probably figure the kid must be doing fine, since he keeps getting promoted to the next grade.