More (not so) fun facts:
54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.
21% read below a 5th grade level, which is considered functionally illiterate.
High immigration numbers don’t fully explain it either, as first gen immigrants only make up about 1/3 of those with low literacy.
All I hear is “mental gymnastics to justify low literacy rates and add virtue signaling on top of it.”
Seriously, don’t you have anything more prescient to manufacture outrage over? Like for instance the fact that the education system is systemically failing in its duty, and also being systematically defunded, degraded, and dismantled? Or the resurgence of right-wing extremism that that degradation enables, as well as the return to power of fascist insider-trading nepo babies? At the very least, how about climate denialism and the anti-vax movement, both of which are predicated on low literacy rates?
But no, I’m the one being offensive by suggesting society should do better? As if the students being failed by the education system aren’t being disadvantaged by that systemic failure? As if my pointing out that as a society we should expect better is what’s really disadvantaging those students?
Sure, buddy…
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Are you suggesting that it’s okay just because other countries have high rates of illiteracy? Or are you saying that the metric is flawed, and that that obviously means the US doesn’t have an illiteracy problem because the research methodology was flawed.
Either way, I hard disagree.
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Okay, once you get your own argument straight without contradicting yourself then maybe I’ll take you seriously?
So is the whole world as illiterate as the US, or is the US as literate as the rest of the world? Because you seem to be saying one or the other and I still can’t figure out which…
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