Fwd: [AAACE-NLA] High School Graduates at Levels 3-5

[Nancy Hansen]

Andrea wrote:
<< .... Poor readers are the product of poor school communities.>

<I bet I am preaching to the choir on this.>>
 
You may be preaching the choir on this, but laying blame that the poor adult readers of which you speak in this email is the fault of the schools would be a real hard-sell to those public school officials of our poor school communities.  
 
If we laid out on the table that it is the schools' fault that our nation has adult literacy at the level we have and look for them to resolve and change that fact for the future of our nation, they'd chase us members of that infamous choir down the street with bats!  Or tar and feather us and carry us to the ocean on a rail.

Nancy Hansen
Sioux Falls Area Literacy Council
sfallsliteracy at yahoo.com

AWilder106 at aol.com wrote:


> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 
From: AWilder106 at aol.com
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:21:57 EDT
Subject: Re: [AAACE-NLA] High School Graduates at Levels 3-5
To: dwyoho at earthlink.net, aaace-nla at literacytents.org

Debbie,

The "problem" is in high schools, which are in communities.  High schools are the centers of communities, so adult literacy efforts should it seems to me be understood as part of community schooling, or non-schooling, and "solutions" worked out together, as communities with schools at the center.  Poor readers are the product of poor school communities.

I bet I am preaching to the choir on this.

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