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Do you know any adult illiterates? It makes me sad.
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 495297" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>It's fairly common here too but you mostly see it with the older people. This is a rural area, very small town, lots of farming went on here, and school just wasn't a priority for a lot of the older ones. You see them in the grocery store, they hand their checkbook to the cashier who fills out their check for them, then they sign their name. I used to see it a lot more than I do now but I guess that older generation is dying out now.</p><p></p><p>I do know a lot of younger ones, most of them recent high school graduates, who appear to be one step away from being illiterate! Do they count? I mean the ones who sat through 12 years of school and still cannot write one complete, understandable sentence that is grammatically correct, punctuated properly and has all the words spelled correctly. And it's not from any kind of Learning Disability (LD), they just don't care and apparently the school didn't either!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 495297, member: 1883"] It's fairly common here too but you mostly see it with the older people. This is a rural area, very small town, lots of farming went on here, and school just wasn't a priority for a lot of the older ones. You see them in the grocery store, they hand their checkbook to the cashier who fills out their check for them, then they sign their name. I used to see it a lot more than I do now but I guess that older generation is dying out now. I do know a lot of younger ones, most of them recent high school graduates, who appear to be one step away from being illiterate! Do they count? I mean the ones who sat through 12 years of school and still cannot write one complete, understandable sentence that is grammatically correct, punctuated properly and has all the words spelled correctly. And it's not from any kind of Learning Disability (LD), they just don't care and apparently the school didn't either! [/QUOTE]
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