Think of the things that will either have to be

machine, writing memos at work, ordering goods from a

December 26, 1982

and-embarrassment of such a

‘Testrictive world.

reveals, “People are really cruel about it when they find

over the age of 15 (not in- cluding the mentally handi-

- avoided or. done with. the Catalogue, .applying for a One 34 year old butcher out you can’t read or spell!” capped or non-English IMAGINE for a help of someone - ie job, or finding your way by laments “It’s beginning to get Adults whose lives are speaking adults)’ who had moment that for one reading the letter from a reading street names. Adults on my nerves when my kids limited by their literacy less than 8 edcation day you are not allowed loved 8 : fom! = whos days are spent without say, ‘Don't ask Dad, he can't disabilities are commonly and 820 who had less than

f oved one that just arrived in adequate reading and _ spell!” They seem: to think — called illiterates or semi- grade 5 education. to use any oO your the mail, understanding the writing skills experience, I'm an idiot or something!” literates. During the mid Audrey Thomas, writing literacy skills. instructions on a new first hand, the frustration And a 29 year old woman 1970's several studies drew

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attention to the alarmingly high numbers of illiterates in

Despite the fact that free and compulsory education to age 15 has been available in Canada since 1912, an estimated five million Canadians have less than grade nine education and one million of them have had either no schooling or less than four years of education.

While it. can be argued that years of schooling are only an arbitary way to measure literacy levels, (we have all, heard‘of the self- taught individual who has only a grade 3 education - or

‘the high school graduate

who was socially promoted but still can’t read or write), it.is one way ‘to guage the extent of the often well hidden problem. ;

In 1976 our own com- munities of North and.West Vancouver. had 7,210 residents out of school and

on illiteracy in Canada, suggests that while national

programs to assist un ‘Canada, U.S.A., and_ dereducated adults have England. been uneven, “the greatest

initiatives in the field have come from the government

. of British Columbia.”

Such an initiative has recently begun on the North Shore. Project SecondStart, administered by Adult and Community Education Services of the North and West Vancouver ‘School Boards, is a program designed to service adults who are unable to attend a regular adult basic education class. Volunteer tutors will be trained to pive one-to-one instruction to these adults in the privaté and secure environment of the home. |

If you know someone who could benefit from this service or if you are in- terested in the tutor training program, call Barbara McBride,. Project Second- Start Coordinator, at 985- 87:

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