illiteracy is also increasing in our country and the number is much higher than 700 (250,000 in the Netherlands! and 3,3 million of 16+ years can hardly read and write!).
The reason? Most illiterates are foreigners and although they go to the same school, get the same opportunities, no, even more opportunities and extra lessons, they simply do not want to learn. They prefer to skip school, are always late, make the streets unsafe and brag that they can do just fine without education. If in addition, girls and women are not allowed to go out on the street and are kept at home despite the compulsory education law or are forbidden to learn even if they are very intelligent, then it is not strange that illiteracy is increasing. In addition, working with a tablet and computer is also the cause. If children do not learn to write first with a pencil and then with a fountain pen, writing, just like handwriting, is never developed. Typing often means that words are automatically completed and in addition it is looking at pictures and tapping the correct answer. Even a job application letter is no longer written. Everything is online and only a few boxes have to be checked.