> If society decided that reading and writing should be taught in school, then it would be taught in school and the system would be designed such that teachers

> If society decided that reading and writing should be taught in school, then it would be taught in school and the system would be designed such that teachers would easily handle it. I mean, society could also decide that houses shouldn't have roofs, but then they wouldn't be houses would they. The word for "school where you don't learn to read" in the rest of the educated world is "daycare".