Mar 18 2013: I've found the first thing that is necessary is getting them to actually read -- all too often I assign a book and hear f"But I've never read a book all the way through since junior high (and some didn't even read then). Unfortunately, there are way too many distractions and alternate activities. If you can get them to read, you can generally find some area of interest that grabs them and move on from there. I'm lucky in that my "students" are court referred and their probation officers back me up all the way. I frequently have more actual learners in my group than my daughters who teach graduate school have in theirs. Certainly more than in the general population. Keep at it, we've way too many uneducated people running around with college degrees -- I did a lot of homeschooling with my kids because of the huge disparity between schooling and education.
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