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re: 50 percent of American adults can’t read at or above an 8th grade level.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:04 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:04 pm to UndercoverBryologist
My kids have to read something everyday out loud for that exact reason. I want my kids to do well
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Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:05 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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50 percent of American adults can’t read at or above an 8th grade level
holy shite that is depressing, but not surprising.
i love to read and i usually carry a book with me to most places. So many people comment about how weird it is, but have no problem with people casually scrolling social media.
my kids play tournament ball and ill bring my book with me to read between games and its quite frankly depressing how many people ask me how many pages the book is, how many pages i have read etc and how shocked they are by the answers.
These are just tom clancy books, around 1000 pages each and it shocks people. If i say i havent read very much and only like 40-50 pages on the weekend, they seem shocked like that is some outragous amount to read. its laughable the looks and comments i get.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:06 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I've seen this with the OT's reading comprehension. Maybe a tad >50%.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:06 pm to UndercoverBryologist
The remaining 40% can barely do basic arithmetic.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:07 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I bet they know which pronoun to use though.
We need to abolish the current public education system.
We need to abolish the current public education system.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:08 pm to Scruffy
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Our public school system has performed wonders.
You can't teach people who don't want to learn.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:09 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Yet people keep saying the schools need more money. It's pathetic that the media and politicians have set us against each other, yet schooling/infrastructure/economy are all just dog shite.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:10 pm to Scruffy
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Our public school system has performed wonders.
once again, y'all refuse to focus on the root causes
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:10 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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50 percent of American adults can’t read at or above an 8th grade level.
>50% can't use there, they're, or their correctly.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:11 pm to Odysseus32
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Not surprising at all.
There is a huge gap in this country not isolated to wealth.
When I talk to someone who maybe doesn't have their life together, a good deal of the time (not all) it's like talking to someone still in high school. The level of conversation is just not there.
Then I talk to someone thriving in this country (again, not everyone) and I think I've met one of the smarter people in the world.
I did an internship at the state one summer in college. There was a girl sitting next to me that had just graduated from LSU as an English major and she was there as a temporary worker hoping to get hired full time. One day she pokes her head around my cubicle wall and asked me how to spell "academic".
The irony was not lost on me
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:12 pm to LoneStar23
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Thank the department of education
100pct. We have thousands of PhD's in that group and we can't figure out how to teach basic reading skills. But we sure can teach CRT and common core.
I've said this before, the system is rigged. Most of us can pass high school with our eyes closed on a bad day and should be put into either higher learning, trades, or co-ops after two years of high school
The other half will never pass high school the way it is set up now, and the system is designed to fail them. Why???
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:12 pm to Funky Tide 8
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It is somehow "cool" to type out and spell words like an illiterate person now.
That and the fact that a rigorous education in English grammar is virtually non-existent now. My brother and I read at the high-school level in elementary school, our parents believed in pushing literacy well beyond our ages, either by reading ourselves or being read to.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:12 pm to UndercoverBryologist
And….. they get to vote
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:13 pm to Salmon
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once again, y'all refuse to focus on the root causes
Exactly, I have heard stories of people who have problem children getting extra govt money. Maybe we should change that to good grades(test scores) = extra money.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:14 pm to Salmon
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once again, y'all refuse to focus on the root causes
The fact that the home life of these people was shite? How is the government supposed to fix that?
Besides, public schools are in no way helping these people. The people who run these schools increasingly focus less and less on actual curriculum every year. It's a giant money pit and filled with people who increasingly don't give a frick.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:15 pm to upgrayedd
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The fact that the home life of these people was shite? How is the government supposed to fix that?
Exactly my point.
Yet we have people in here blaming public schools.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:15 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Another reason to abolish the DOE.
None of this diversity, equality shite needs to be taught. We should ONLY focus on reading, math, economics, science (real science not this made up gender bullshite).
None of this diversity, equality shite needs to be taught. We should ONLY focus on reading, math, economics, science (real science not this made up gender bullshite).
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:15 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Anything above a 6th grade education is just showing off
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:15 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Now do Detroits adult literacy rate.
Posted on 7/6/22 at 1:16 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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50 percent of American adults can’t read at or above an 8th grade level.
Good grief that is hard to believe.
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