I decided to stop there. I could feel a rant coming on! Literacy — or rather the lack of — is something I’m passionate about having spent much of my professional life working with children who struggle to acquire functional levels of reading and writing. The fact that you’re reading this — and for that matter, the fact that Medium exists — is because we are fortunate enough to have ‘broken the code’. Others are not so fortunate. Knowing what I know about what it takes to read and write, I am in total awe of the human brain’s c…