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To: J.B.C. who wrote (69063)	12/16/2004 1:50:23 PM
From: kikogrey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Jim Willie legend-in-his-own-mind is being factually dishonest...the leading cause of illiteracy in the US is immigration, legal and illegal. Hmm. . . tend to agree with the Willie. Several years ago I wasn't working so as a favor to a teacher agreed to be her 6-week substitute teacher while she had surgery. Totally changed the way I look at American education. This is in a pretty affuent public So. California school, a "California DIstinguished School" btw I was just shocked how--to be perfectly blunt--DUMB these kids were. I mean 7th graders could barely read, didn't understand basic sentence structure, had the attention span of toddlers AND were pissed when I wouldn't give them A's for the garbage essays they turned in. These kids weren't foreign born. Maybe these kids are just raised with too much "stuff" andto them reading just sucked. Writing was torture. My pet peeve was why not change the curriculum so that the books they were reading were somewhat interesting to them. I mean, try shooving 80 Days around the World down the throats of these miscreants (average 10 archaic words per page.) They literally saw reading as pure drudgery. I learned to read about age 6 on comic books, forever have viewed reading as pleasurable. OTOH I see my kids' high school with their tons of high competitive AP classes not allowing the "smart" kids to enjoy high school--why take all your college classes in high school? My observation is that there are extremely stringent demands of the "smart" kids and the other kids just run amuck.

To: J.B.C. who wrote (69063)	12/16/2004 1:50:51 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

factually dishonest ??? ever traveled to the following areas inside USA ??? West Virginia Kentucky Alabama South Carolina Tennessee Mississippi Arkansas when a boy, I lived in Mzippi, plenty of illiteracy there our illiteracy is calculated from schoolkids which excludes illegal immigrants legend in my own mind ??? jeeez, you are such a nuisance but I must admit, that I have learned a tremendous amount from you, your wisdom, your deep insights, your profound argumentation / jim