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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 16, 2008, at 12:39 AM, Lynda wrote:

> That being only by way of a partial explanation, the bottomline is  
> that
> folks who graduated in the 1950s are more literate than kids  
> graduating now.
> And the over populace is not as literate as the populace 100 or more  
> years
> ago.

Don'cha just love statistics and records? Sorta like history, who made  
the decisions, who did the writing.

What is "the over populace?"

The reason my last name is spelled as it is is because of census  
takers of a hundred years ago who wrote it down phonetically because  
one of my forebears apparently couldn't spell her husband's last name,  
Giroux. Or the census taker was of limited writing ability. Lots of  
names changed because of illiteracy.

Btw, I graduated in the 1950s. The kids today seem lots more literate  
than I was then.

And, no, I did not like school.