Employers talk of having to teach people to read a bus timetable so they can get to work on time.
Their evil, like its sexual equivalent, can scar or cripple children for life. We now have a generation of teachers that is itself illiterate. Nothing is more urgent than that we release our children from the molesters' clutches. If it be true that a nation's health can be determined in significant measure by the state of its education system, then our country is all but terminally ill.