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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it amazing that in the hundreds of years that children have been attending school and learning how to read, that we still need to have this conversation?  How did kids manage to learn to read in the past? [/quote]

[b]Many didn't, and they dropped out of school to work the family farm or got a job in a factory[/b].[/quote]

They dropped out of school because they were poor and needed to help out the family, not because they couldn't learn how to read.  It's like potty training, everyone who is exposed to it long enough eventually gets it. [/quote]

Good lord, PP. No. Rich and poor people are dyslexic, and exposing kids to books and words and language isn't enough to teach most dyslexics to read. Do most of us learn well enough to function in society without remediation? Yes, but in the past we suffered terribly, and didn't go as far academically as we could have, and were berated and shamed for being stupid and lazy. Please don't perpetuate that.[/quote]

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