There you go again, loml. Contradicting yoursel. In an immediately previous post to shel, you refer to CS as a way to acquire spoken English as the familial language. Now you say it is all about literacy. If one cannot communicate, one cannot become literate. One must have langauge before one can become literate in langauge. If you want to promote CS as a tool for literacy, thenstick to that. If you want to promote it as a communication method, then stick to that. You continually argue out of both sides of your mouth, and as a consequence, have completely destroyed your credibility.