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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And they do this at the college level, too. Some educators keep perpetuating it.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2014/03/college-g...s-to-keep-them-playing-sports/

"So far, few people seem to be pointing out that some high schools are graduating illiterates." 
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The "college athletes who are illiterate" problem is the exception.  That stuff happens because of the money in college athletic programs, not because there were no standards in high school.  Get rid of the college athletics and you will solve the problem.  Athletes will not be given a free pass through high school for the benefit of college "big money" athletics.

Parents surely must come into the picture somewhere with these kids who are illiterate.  Don't they notice that their kid is not learning to read and write?  In most school districts there would be testing for special education.  Maybe that's where the problem is----school districts that are not testing for special education.[/quote]

These guys were reading at a 3rd grade level *before* they started college.  How did they graduate HS reading at a 3rd grade level?  It's not the colleges forcing the ES and MS to graduate kids with just a 3rd grade reading level.

A lot of such kids also have parents that are functionally illiterate.  I don't know what the percentages are, but I don't think the majority of people who are functional illiterates have LD/SN.  [/quote]

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