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Reading Is Still Fundamental

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 6, 2008

Regarding "Fewer Students Read Between The Lines" (front page, July 1):

I read with interest your article on our low literacy skills in this state. I wonder how today's students would fare were they dumped back in time and place to where I was schooled.

Summerville, S.C., was probably the last place one would find literacy. We were crammed into classes of 35 to 45 children. We lived in the impoverished Deep South. We were backward and segregated. I'm no genius, but I can spell, read, comprehend, solve word problems, write and punctuate - things they don't teach anymore.

I'm of the opinion that public schools today teach diversity and political correctness to the detriment of everything else. Taxpayers should expect government schools to produce literate, educated people capable of getting jobs and contributing to society, not sponging from it.

MARGARET BIDDLE

Bowling Green

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