This isn't a joke. There are grown people who can't read. I have been close to one for a few months. Have you all had any experience with someone like that? Anyway, the person I am speaking of is plenty smart, he just I guess isn't much the bookworm type.
Learning to Read
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It's the best way to piss off your college teachers for sure.
My father and his wife worked at different colleges when I was a kid. They took me out to eat with friends they worked with and that was the one topic that they talked about with them. One lady said she failed 3 people because they couldn't read. They couldn't even read the sentence out of the book when they were called on. She gave them a failing score and told them not to come back to her class. I learned that day that not being able to read in college is an automatic fail.
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The older generation, most didn't learn to read well as they had to quit school. I know of men & women in their 80's & 90's who don't read too well. So I can understand that. Nowadays, kids text & use acronyms & odd spellings so don't learn proper grammar as well as reading & writing skills.
They didn't say. Dyslexia or not, they're not going to feel sorry for you when they give you a failing score. They just see that the student is coming to their class unprepared. My mother is a college professor and she's bitched plenty of times about how her students were not reading over the assignments properly and were just guessing at the work. All I know is that poor reading skills are the quickest way to piss off your teachers when you're doing advanced college courses.
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My hubby's grandfather couldn't read or write, however, he owned his own successful shutter business. His grandmother was the one in charge of doing all the work keeping the books and all that in order when it was running (his grandparents are both deceased now). She did end up having to teach him how to sign his name, at least, so that he could sign the employee's checks when it came time to pay them on pay day.
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