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I have got to stop reading teacher anecdotes about literacy issues in students, this is messing me up
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Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.
I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.
Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright 
that literacy is what would allow the working class to take over running a society. The issue of illiteracy preventing revolution would therefore be mitigateable by a literate vanguard party that after the revolution set about mass literacy programs.
I'm not sure about that kids seem perfectly able to talk to each other in person
Lucero that's one hell of a run on sentence you've got there.
Just found it ironic given the thread topic