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Originally Posted by CarolynBG
But they (esp. the principal) know their particular students better than I do, and they were actually excited about the possibility of the students using TTS to first hear the words (presumably while reading along) then (I assume) reading again silently. In any case, they really latched onto that feature -- at that point in the process I'd just heard about the touch Nook which is at the same price (I think) as the Kindle, and was ready to switch to that; but I was beholden to our grantor to at least include the reasons the Kindle was on the list. And, as I said, the principal jumped on that.
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Don't get me started on the idiocy of our current education system and many (most?) of the "educators." And the lack of things like basic literacy of the students they graduate.