Comprehension is a problem
Sometimes it isn't that they can't read, it's that they can't comprehend. If a child cannot comprehend what they've read then we definitely have a catastrophe in the making. This article explains it pretty well.
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/suppose-you-write-to-your-child-and-then-remember-he-cant-read/
A government which robs Peter to
pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw