[Osx-nutters] Writing Off Reading

[Guy Hammond]

Patrick Coskren wrote:
>
> I wonder, though.  The older generation has *always* said this about 
> the younger (in part because there have always been, and always will 
> be, idiots to point to).  These days, wiith more kids going to 
> college, who's to say it's not just a matter of kids getting into some 
> college somewhere who once would have stopped with a high school 
> education?  Or just a function of the fact that there are *always* 
> kids who skirt the system to get good grades: star athletes, willing 
> cheerleaders, wealthy scions.   Sure, these are all anecdotal points 
> unsupported by any actual evidence, but so's the original article, and 
> hey, it got him published in the Washington Post.

I don't seem to recall universities needing to teach remedial classes in 
the 3Rs back in my day.

G