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knew an old man who couldn't read. he could write phone numbers in a notebook and remembered who it was by where it was written. no names. Fort Worth 1980.

If you want some light horror reading, check out /r/teachers.

That's higher than I thought. Aren't newspapers written at around third or fourth grade levels?

Yeah we elected one in to the presidential office too

And 21% of American adults are illiterate

In high school, I always thought the kids sounding out words like "the" were just taking the piss and doing it on purpose. I see now that was genuine. 😔

Who is that sexy mother fucker in the picture?

Not surprising h their president can hardly read

How do you test a reading level? Like for me it was always you either can read and understand or you can’t. What differentiates reading levels from grade to grade?

And they all get votes

You have entire corporations, nation-wide that are backed by religious nuts and racists, entire state-sized organizations of assholes paid from the bottom-up, and unless science and education has the same backing, we will lose.

When's the last time a rock band was labeled a "science band", but you can name four or five christian bands without even listening to them?

There are entire record companies and publishing houses that do nothing but spread more of it, interest groups in the billions of dollars that circulate faith and blindness. Even philanthropy, and a yelling preacher on every corner, sometimes across the street from one another, hospitals, nonprofits, foundations, you name it.

Christianity and Judaism is so overblown in support, we shouldn't expect anything less than absolute ignorance. Look what's pushing it.

This ain't a meme, Pug

Yeah, no shit. gestures generally toward the DC area

87.4% graduate high school, then people stop being forced to read books and those who never liked reading get out of practice