00:00This is just absolutely crazy. You can go through our public school system and graduate and not be able to
00:10read. Now, mind you, this young lady you are about to witness isn't from America, but still, she graduated and
00:19couldn't read. If you don't believe me, well, check it out.
00:24Even today, could you read this or would it take you a long time? Alicia graduated from the Hartford Public
00:32School System last year, but she says today she is illiterate. She still doesn't know how to read or write.
00:39By high school, she was using text-to-speech apps to fake her way through every single assignment.
00:44So, if you had an assignment where you had to write something, you'd open up a document like this and
00:50then do what?
00:50I would go here to use the text-to-speech.
00:54It says dictate.
00:55Dictate, yep. I love pizza.
00:58This is how you would do your assignments. If you had to read something, that's how you'd do it.
01:02Her mother begged the school for help for years and got nothing but empty promises. Now, she's serving the Hartford...
