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That's unfortunate (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (37 children)

21% illiteracy is shockingly bad tbh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (27 children)

This can't be true..... 21% of Americans can't read?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (26 children)

Gives some perspective on american culture and problems compared to the rest of the world doesn't it?

Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences—literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD 2013). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1). This translates into 43.0 million U.S. adults who possess low literacy skills

Source: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179/index.asp

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've heard nothing but bad things about American schools and they're said to revoltingly underfunded especially in poor and non-white communities. Seen from an outside perspective it seems like all American schools do is multiple choice tests, bullying, pledge of allegiance, school shootings, eat hot chip and lie.

Austerity and culture war has consequences, one of them is that students are not given then education they need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hey!! That's just NOT TRUE!!

...we call them french fries

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The school shootings are statistically insignificant but magnified to enormous size by the media, but other than that yes.

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