Conservative65
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I still feel the main reason for illiteracy is our focus on academic courses and not vocational.
Some of those same kids who "don't give a dam " might if they were given the opportunity to learn a trade. Stress that reading, writing, and math will help them become good carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, heating & a/c tech and you will be surprised at how much their grades improve.
The school systems today have a mindset that everyone must go to college. The local district has done away with what they used to call Regular level classes and the minimum level, outside of special education, is College Prep. Many of the students who went to what we call Career Centers took Regular level and got the academic basics they needed to be functionally literate in society because they learned a trade at the Career Centers. Not so much anymore.