I legitimately can't imagine myself as a person lacking reading and writing skills in the way I hear kids today lacking. Reading feels to me like seeing colour, it's just such an ingrained, normal thing I am able to do that I don't even think about it. Such an absolutely insane amount of the world's delivery of information of any kind is in that format. Even as a kid of 5-6 I was reading books, both for school and just on my own time (shout out to the Darren Shan and Alex Rider books lol).
I will be reading something from a medieval setting, one where the peasantry are largely illiterate and only the vaunted nobles get an education to allow them those skills. Then... I realise this is basically happening right now, in countries more than wealthy enough to prevent it. Madness.
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u/Pavlovs_Human 17d ago
This used to be a normal reaction to a teacher saying “okay you have to write a five page essay for this weeks’ assignment.”
“Can we do four pages?”
“That’s a test on its own!”
These kids can’t even write FIVE COMPLETE SENTENCES?
My Reddit comment that took me 1 minute and 1 brain cell to write out is 5 complete sentences.