To be clear: the meaning of "for good" in this sentence is "for the rest of their lives, permanently"
Some ESL readers may be looking at the article asking what was the upside? Was it the anti sex thing or the no maths thing?
A similar thing happened at the end of ww2. A cohort of british kids displaced by bombing, evacuation, school closures, repurposing of schools for emergency use and teacher shortages entered the postwar workforce illiterate and innumerate and some remained illiterate until literacy drives in the 1960s and 1970s. The decline of manual labour made them increasingly precarious in the modern world and quite a few wound up homeless when their parents or partners died. They'd been relying on others to paper over the functional gap.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 21.3 ms ] threadSome ESL readers may be looking at the article asking what was the upside? Was it the anti sex thing or the no maths thing?
A similar thing happened at the end of ww2. A cohort of british kids displaced by bombing, evacuation, school closures, repurposing of schools for emergency use and teacher shortages entered the postwar workforce illiterate and innumerate and some remained illiterate until literacy drives in the 1960s and 1970s. The decline of manual labour made them increasingly precarious in the modern world and quite a few wound up homeless when their parents or partners died. They'd been relying on others to paper over the functional gap.