How is it possible that roughly 50% of Americans can’t read above a 6th grade level and how are 21% just flat out illiterate? - eviltoast

From https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/14phpbq/how_is_it_possible_that_roughly_50_of_americans/

Question above is pretty blunt but was doing a study for a college course and came across that stat. How is that possible? My high school sucked but I was well equipped even with that sub standard level of education for college. Obviously income is a thing but to think 1 out of 5 American adults is categorized as illiterate is…astounding. Now poor media literacy I get, but not this. Edit: this was from a department of education report from 2022. Just incase people are curious where that comes from. It does also specify as literate in English so maybe not as grim as I thought.

  • benvoyon@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Speak White, you say. Hmm… … bigot! That is why we will never cross the cultural divide between the two solitudes in canada if on either side we refuse to acknowledge our differences.

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      1 year ago

      Feel free to speak in whatever ethnicity you want so long as type out a full sentence with at least a hint of what your point is trying to be.

      The problem with your last comment isn’t slang words or grammar, it was a complete lack of logical flow and endless run-on sentences with no point to be found anywhere.

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        1 year ago

        I bet that the English cucumber in my French salad leaves you speechless. You’re killing me pointlessly with your words.

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          1 year ago

          Are you translating french idioms into english and expecting it to make sense?

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            1 year ago

            No and it wouldn’t make any difference in any language anyhow. Even less in your neck of the woods.

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              1 year ago

              Wait are you actually saying what you’ve typed doesn’t make sense in any language? I’m so confused.

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                1 year ago
                • [ ] Not so fast. My colloquial digression from the subject of worldwide illiteracy followed your assumption that Québec educational policy was making anglophones illiterates which I do not agree with just so you could further your quite succinct crass political agenda to National governmental affairs in your next comment (Bill 96).
                • [ ] You cannot read between the lines because your biased intercultural approach is monolithic and exclusive.
                • [ ] I am exasperated by your sarcastic bullshit. So fuck off you bloody cunt!
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                  I swear to god I keep trying my damn hardest to understand the words that come out of your mouth but it just keeps sounding like you’re using a synonym generator like a 15 year old who just discovered the right click menu in microsoft word 2016 and thinks his homework sounds so sophisticated but it’s just a big ol’ word salad with absolutely no resemblance to a coherent point anywhere.

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                    1 year ago

                    Well The Fuck. Keep believing in your “fairy tales” and swear by it all of your devoted lifetime if you like… …Not too soon enough your tower of babel is showing untold signs of weakness from your troubled mind through your poisonous twisted tongue. Irrationality is your forte I can see.