Illiteracy.

What are your views on Illiteracy?

Where does the problem start and responsibility lie?

Is it all the fault of the parents? Or does the failing educational system have a part to play in all this? Is it down to the inane babble used by serial texters? Is it just plain and simply down to laziness?

When I worked with children with Learning Disabilities it was often mooted that we should move to a phonetic method of spelling. Would this be a useful way forward or a retrograde step?

Regards,

kev35