It's tough. If I could reasonably grade 9th grader's papers when I was in 7th, and my mother looked my work over, I despair.
But most of those who can't read don't vote. Typo's happen. Illiteracy happens, too. It's far more urgent to get people able to take those letters and shape them into words. I don't know how this much neglect happened. Well, I sort of do.
I am, after all, my mother's and her father' daughter.
There's a reason I can write. And I attribute it to my forebears. They were fierce.
I never hold typos against anyone. With the pain in my hands, I make enough of them although I do try to proofread.
As for the illiterates not voting....I wouldn't be so sure. Until their illnesses really took hold, my parents were regular election judges. According to my mom, a former 4th grade teacher, it wasn't pretty.
I can very easily understand why people had all the trouble that they did in Florida in 2000 with the "butterfly" ballot. We have them here and if you can't read fairly well, you punch the wrong hole.
Brava and bravo to your mom and your grandfather, respectively. Unless huge reforms happen (and I don't mean the useless crap in No Child Left Behind) we're doomed. People aren't taught to think much less write and we applaud that sort of anti-intellectual laziness here in the US.
I have that feeling, but try to keep hoping there will be another generation that loves liturature. They will be the next support for my country. They should read at least some philosophers and learnt science; if we're lucky. I sigh and hope.
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But most of those who can't read don't vote. Typo's happen. Illiteracy happens, too. It's far more urgent to get people able to take those letters and shape them into words. I don't know how this much neglect happened. Well, I sort of do.
I am, after all, my mother's and her father' daughter.
There's a reason I can write. And I attribute it to my forebears. They were fierce.
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I never hold typos against anyone. With the pain in my hands, I make enough of them although I do try to proofread.
As for the illiterates not voting....I wouldn't be so sure. Until their illnesses really took hold, my parents were regular election judges. According to my mom, a former 4th grade teacher, it wasn't pretty.
I can very easily understand why people had all the trouble that they did in Florida in 2000 with the "butterfly" ballot. We have them here and if you can't read fairly well, you punch the wrong hole.
Brava and bravo to your mom and your grandfather, respectively.
Unless huge reforms happen (and I don't mean the useless crap in No Child Left Behind) we're doomed. People aren't taught to think much less write and we applaud that sort of anti-intellectual laziness here in the US.
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