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If you need an actual example story on how something like this can happen.
you know the old stuff where teachers are like, you need to do math manually, youll never always have a calculator in your pocket (of course in retrospect its almost the opposite given smartphones). this particular case was TOO accommodating, and allowed her to use text to speech services to do work, so she never learned how to "read"
Umm, yes?
Incredible. Small thing, but I was surprised to read “Connecticut.”