He said he left them unable to read, write or tell the time of day.
At the moment around one in six children leaves primary school unable to read to the level we expect.
Unable to read or write, they are stunted from reaching their full potential.
More than one in six youngsters left school unable to read, write or add up properly, said the report.
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Too many children still leave primary school unable to read and write properly.
Another client recently developed an undiagnosed vision problem that has left him unable to read, watch TV, and even drive.
In the latest national assessment of school performance, 40% of American ten-year-olds were unable to read at their grade level.
He directed his first opera in 1974, despite being unable to read music and claiming never to have even seen one.
Many who hold modern era post-graduate degrees are unable to read and comprehend the great authors even of the recent past.
Poor eye sight can also result in a person being unable to read the labels on medication and accidentally taking the wrong dose.
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Jack had a US microchip, but when he was brought to Dr. Flachaire by Ms. Staal, they were unable to read the microchip.
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Many of California's Latino students, who make up by far the biggest share of children in bilingual classes, leave school unable to read or write English.
This is a simple story of the members of a peasant family in Sicily, who cannot communicate with their emigrant son, because they are unable to read or write.
Frost wrote Dedication for the occasion, and brought a handwritten copy with him, but he was unable to read it because of the glare of the sunlight on the snow.
Unable to read and write, Goodfellow nonetheless had an intuitive understanding of math, and one day a schoolteacher caught him trying to divide the likes of 1, 453 by 28 on a slate board in the corner of the room.
Nearly a third were unable to read 20 common words, while 17% of the children were still at the basic stage of writing and could not write their own name or other words from memory - an increase from 15% last year.
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Judge Philip Hughes had listened to prosecution and defence submissions at Llandudno last week, and said that while the defendant was unable to read, he had no doubt that he had overcome what disadvantage he had to become a shrewd and successful businessman.
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Cash machines were a particular problem for some who found the buttons fiddly, found the screens hard to read, and were unable to remember a Pin code.
Many people could not get jobs because they struggled to read graphs and interpret documents, while plumbers unable to do the calculations required to install an energy-efficient boiler might lose income, he suggested.
She would pick one up, planning to read that one special passage, and find herself unable to stop until the whole thing was redigested.
Mrs Fuller was unable to attended the inquest, but in a statement read to the court she detailed her relationship with her husband.
Although they were unable to discover exactly how this happens, they were able to use the effect to read the stored information.
Then they fumed when they read quotes from a USA Today article they felt portrayed women as unable to understand or appreciate sports in the same way as men.
Ruth Fuller, from Milkwall in Gloucestershire, was unable to attended the inquest at Wem Coroner's Court, but in a statement read to the court she detailed her relationship with her husband.
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