MAGA is celebrating in the streets!
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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Seems to indicate this is a universal problem not just the United States problem.
The rise of right wing politics with it is no coincidence.
The isolation during the pandemic has been proven to have affected kid's education as well.
This is by design, a dumber population is easier to control by the few.
A educated population is beneficial to society as a whole.
That's why the Dept of Education is getting dismantled in the next four years and returning it "back to the states" so that they can privatize things and profit from it.
Damn it feels good to be a ~~gangsta~~ billionaire
Yes and no. Easier to control when you are in control but mob mentality can shift incredibly quickly when the mass is just plain dumb. Intelligent people weight their decision, act slowly and methodically and only act quickly when it's absolutely necessary.
“No child left behind or whatever”
-George bush circa 2000s more likely than not
all the other kids were waiting for one of them to learn to read so they all couldn't move on and now no one can read lol
All of the people online that were getting chastised for correcting spelling and grammar left the Internet. Misspelled memes became a thing, and now everyone's fucking retarded. Eating Tiktok for breakfast and shitting Twitter by lunchtime. This fucking species, I swear.
Alien overlords, AI emergence, a fucking ELE asteroid, I'll take anything over this Onion of a planet.
Lol imagine thinking the reason education is failing is because not enough grammar Nazis are online lol
No wonder y'all are 1/4 illiterate.
Imagine using 'lol' to start and finish a sentence. I award you the obligatory dunce cap. Go sit in the corner.
Lol
Gonna get worse.
And as for media literacy? Negative numbers.
There was a similar story posted here on Lemmy about a month ago. On that one it was referring to English literacy only without any regard to other languages.
The article linked here doesn't like to the actual study, so I can't see if its the same thing here.
I mean the numbers here seem very high across the board. I'm Norwegian, and I can't imagine the numbers for our illiteracy to Norwegian being anywhere near that high. It would make sense for the number there to be in regards to English, both for my country and the others there.
Someone posted a chart and it looks like Norwegens are just real good at readin. Seriously though, I'm shocked too as an American. I just assume everyone around me can read except when I'm reminded of our illiteracy problem
Can someone record themselves reading this article and send me a link?
The movie idiocracy is turning from a comedy to a documentary!
Financial literacy question #1: how does a tariff work?
I wonder how many of these people went to public school in the US? How many are native English speakers?
How many went to private schools with reduced oversight?
Or homeschooled? It would be interesting to see where the illiterate people are coming from. Id like to know where the failure points are.
I used to work in a school at a correctional facility for incarcerated teenagers and almost all of them were homeschooled. Many of them could barely read, fewer than 10% could write a coherent statement, and almost none of them had even basic math skills.