Steve -- I appreciate you raising what an immense job it is to help
literacy learners overcome so many serious obstacles. In addition to
deciphering text, those challenges include finding transportation to and
from class, finding day care, being able to afford time away from work
and family to go to class, and numerous other things that are affected
(indeed, dictated by?) domestic and international policy decisions.

So I'm not sure we should count those as a "different matter." They
seem to be part of the heart of the matter.

Cynthia 

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>>> On 10/26/2009 at 2:26 PM, in message

<f1a6e820910261126o12a90664j99e22862ec0b0bbe at mail.gmail.com>, Steve
Kaufmann
<steve at thelinguist.com> wrote:

> Most people who struggle with poor literacy face serious obstacles,

since we

> are surrounded by writing. It is a part of our environment, our

cultural

> environment. To improve the reading and writing skills of these

people is an

> immense job, given the scale of the problem. Political views on Iraq

or

> other issues of domestic or international policy is quite a

different

> matter.

> 

> Steve Kaufmann

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