On: I was a teacher for 17 years, but couldn't read or...

[inglor]

IMO this comment takes a very cynical and US centric view of things.

I've found this story was well written and pretty inspiring. Just because people are privileged doesn't mean they don't struggle or that their struggles can't teach us things.

It's surprising to see this sort of toxicity in hacker news.

[kzrdude → rubyn00bie]

Maybe it could be called fraud when he was adult.

But this story starts with a child who can't read and is ashamed to admit it, and it's nothing strange, it is human.