The powers that be want to eliminate schools all together. They don't need a literate labourer. Soldier just need to recognize the alphabet. (I mean this in the most basic of terms. I'm not desparaging anyone.)
They don't want "free thinking" people in their society. If anyone remembers 'Divergent'. If not, look into it. It's not too far off.
This can’t be true.
I’m not American but does 6th grade mean about 11?
That's correct (11 years old) - I do believe this, though (or at least that it's mostly accurate). I don't think we get a really clear picture of this group online - they're probably not going to be posting a lot on the major text-focused social media networks (including facebook, for example).
To me it seems like it's not so much about city vs. rural but about rich vs. poor. One thing that's really fucked up to me is how school funding in the US is generally heavily based on the property taxes from the immediate area - so areas that are already rich get the best schools, and poorer areas have worse. I don't believe the situation will change anytime soon, unfortunately.
This. We used a friend's address in a different city and area (very upper class) with top rated schools, to send our children. As the Schools in our area were quite bad. We lived in a middle class neighborhood too. The difference was night and day...
Unironically relevant
Go look at content that is considered a specific reading level. It may shock you to find that a lot of it is not considered a high reading level.
In my experience, there’s also a poverty component. Some families may have to move into a shelter in a different school district or even state. Within that you can stay at a shelter for a short and long time. Education is also not usually a focus of the family, or theres not enough time. So you have a situation where you are constantly moving places and schools, and your family doesn’t take any time to teach reading outside of school for whatever reason.
There are a lot of old people in America. My grandparents didn't go to high school. It wasn't really considered necessary back then. We also have a lot of immigrants who may not necessarily be able to speak English well, let alone read it.
I would imagine that if you look at literacy rates of just young people, they would likely be a lot higher. Still, we do still have a lot of high school dropouts these days, but those numbers have been improving a lot. (According to this, the dropout rates have decreased about 10% over the past decade: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/coi/high-school-graduation-rates )
High school drop outs should be literate.
Shit public education system
Probably a combination of flat out retards and recent immigrants for whom English is a second language.
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