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Do you know any adult illiterates? It makes me sad.
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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 494991" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>I hired an adult former difficult child to clean up my warehouse. He is the father of two, very hardworking and thinks I'm terrific. I knew he "had trouble reading" but I was deeply saddened and a bit shocked when I gave him a twenty and sent him to a store down the street to get "paper towels, windex and toilet paper". It is a store he frequents with his family almost daily. He said "I better ask your Grandson to go with me so I get the right things. He knows how to read better than I do."</p><p></p><p>How tragic is that? He's almost thirty and went to our local schools until he was sixteen. Geez, no wonder he dropped out. He can't read or write. Who to heck would stay in high school under those conditions? Sadest of all is that he has two little girls under four that are "his angels". He does almost everything for them. I almost got tears in my eyes when he told me that he has their names tatted on his chest so when people ask how to spell their names he can show them.</p><p></p><p>People wonder about the high unemployment. They wonder why "we" have to support people who do not have jobs. Why don't people wonder how society can intervene to help kids learn how to survive legally in our world. By first grade this man should have been identified and helped. Sigh. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 494991, member: 35"] I hired an adult former difficult child to clean up my warehouse. He is the father of two, very hardworking and thinks I'm terrific. I knew he "had trouble reading" but I was deeply saddened and a bit shocked when I gave him a twenty and sent him to a store down the street to get "paper towels, windex and toilet paper". It is a store he frequents with his family almost daily. He said "I better ask your Grandson to go with me so I get the right things. He knows how to read better than I do." How tragic is that? He's almost thirty and went to our local schools until he was sixteen. Geez, no wonder he dropped out. He can't read or write. Who to heck would stay in high school under those conditions? Sadest of all is that he has two little girls under four that are "his angels". He does almost everything for them. I almost got tears in my eyes when he told me that he has their names tatted on his chest so when people ask how to spell their names he can show them. People wonder about the high unemployment. They wonder why "we" have to support people who do not have jobs. Why don't people wonder how society can intervene to help kids learn how to survive legally in our world. By first grade this man should have been identified and helped. Sigh. DDD [/QUOTE]
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