It's my understanding that kids are now taught "sight reading", i.e., the word "the" is pronounced "the". No phonics or learning letters sounds. Kids claim reading is extremely difficult and taxing because of this teaching method and therefore abhore reading. Otherwise kids are being made stupid. Feudalism rules.
It's only a hop, skip and a stumble into the pit of hell before US public schools stop making reading mandatory. After all, you don't need to read to use a computer, right? You just click the little mousie thing on the little pictures.
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