Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>I find it hard to believe that anyone could graduate high school in the US
>and not know how to read (barring students with severe handicaps of some
>sort).
At least here, if a kindergartener isn't up to the level of reading he
should be by First grade they hold them back. I remember teaching two
brothers how to read and what the letters were because they had already
been held back a year and were threatened with being held back ANOTHER. I
whipped those boys into shape and got them up to the level that they
should have been in about three months.