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Do you know any adult illiterates? It makes me sad.
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 495441" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Tony can read but he has a very bad reading comprehension issue that should have been picked up in school so he doesnt enjoy reading for the pleasure of it. Now he can read a set of blueprints and build a commercial building without a problem. I couldnt do that for anything. It would be well over my head but it makes perfect sense to him. He can do math in his head that amazes me. I mean geometry and angles and fractions. He doesnt think he is doing algebra but he is. If I say the word algebra he freezes but he is doing it without realizing it. He has taught Cory all this stuff too. Cory, for a kid who never completed 9th grade, has actually helped 2 girls with some really hard college classes...lol. When they dont know the answers, he looks in the books and figures out the homework answers for them. I just shake my head. And he thinks he wouldnt make it. Basically he already has. </p><p></p><p>As far as older people, we know a lot of them. This is farming country and back then most people stopped school no later than 6th or 8th grade. Farming was more important. Especially for the women. But lots of the children were needed to work the farms. Tony's grandmother was one of 23 kids. I would be willing to bet some of them were illiterate. I know the guy across the street is, three people in one family that is distantly related to Tony on his mother's side are that are around our age. I could go on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 495441, member: 1514"] Tony can read but he has a very bad reading comprehension issue that should have been picked up in school so he doesnt enjoy reading for the pleasure of it. Now he can read a set of blueprints and build a commercial building without a problem. I couldnt do that for anything. It would be well over my head but it makes perfect sense to him. He can do math in his head that amazes me. I mean geometry and angles and fractions. He doesnt think he is doing algebra but he is. If I say the word algebra he freezes but he is doing it without realizing it. He has taught Cory all this stuff too. Cory, for a kid who never completed 9th grade, has actually helped 2 girls with some really hard college classes...lol. When they dont know the answers, he looks in the books and figures out the homework answers for them. I just shake my head. And he thinks he wouldnt make it. Basically he already has. As far as older people, we know a lot of them. This is farming country and back then most people stopped school no later than 6th or 8th grade. Farming was more important. Especially for the women. But lots of the children were needed to work the farms. Tony's grandmother was one of 23 kids. I would be willing to bet some of them were illiterate. I know the guy across the street is, three people in one family that is distantly related to Tony on his mother's side are that are around our age. I could go on. [/QUOTE]
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