Functional illiteracy in America

[ttystikk]

Listening to a BBC Radio program with the first female US Librarian of the Congress and a woman who built a small library in Johannesburg, SA.

The US Librarian said that 38% of the residents of Baltimore, MD are functionally illiterate.

I'm shocked. Is anyone else?

I'm dismayed and disgusted. Is anyone else?

Are we creating a third world country right here in America?

Discuss.

 

[schuylaar]

President Pedo can only speak in 140 characters which apparently was acceptable to the American people..so the bar is pretty low.

I remember getting the Scholastic book orders at school and how reading was promoted I guess not so much these days.

But a bigger question..is it English, Sessions is speaking?

 

[londonfog]

Listening to a BBC Radio program with the first female US Librarian of the Congress and a woman who built a small library in Johannesburg, SA.

The US Librarian said that 38% of the residents of Baltimore, MD are functionally illiterate.

I'm shocked. Is anyone else?

I'm dismayed and disgusted. Is anyone else?

Are we creating a third world country right here in America?

Discuss.

President Pedo can only speak in 140 characters which apparently was acceptable to the American people..so the bar is pretty low.

I remember getting the Scholastic book orders at school and how reading was promoted I guess not so much these days.

But a bigger question..is it English, Sessions is speaking?

or when idiots are to stupid to know how to register to vote in this country. How the hell can you preach and tell others about a person for over a year and are too stupid to realize that you need to change from being a registered Independent to a Dem.
Functional idiots.

 

[Rob Roy]

or when idiots are to stupid to know how to register to vote in this country. How the hell can you preach and tell others about a person for over a year and are too stupid to realize that you need to change from being a registered Independent to a Dem.
Functional idiots.

Generally when beginning a sentence, the first word is capitalized. Now, please feel free to continue with your ranting about illiteracy and idiots.

 

[rkymtnman]

Generally when beginning a sentence, the first word is capitalized. Now, please feel free to continue with your ranting about illiteracy and idiots.

Thank you for paying taxes.

 

[Rob Roy]

Thank you for paying taxes.

So you're not opposed to using government schools to teach children when SOME people bully it's okay then?

 

[rkymtnman]

So you're not opposed to using government schools to teach children when SOME people bully it's okay then?

Thanks for paying your fair share.

 

[Rob Roy]

Thanks for paying your fair share.

Meaningless rationalizing platitude to distract that a theft is what really occurs.

If all people are supposed to be equal, no person or group of persons has any right to force their ideas on another person if the other person respects the reciprocity and peace of that idea.

 

[rkymtnman]

Meaningless rationalizing platitude to distract that a theft is what really occurs.

If all people are supposed to be equal, no person or group of persons has any right to force their ideas on another person if the other person respects the reciprocity and peace of that idea.

Do you cry when you buy gas? You know how much tax is built into the price of a gallon? I"m flabbergasted.

 

[Rob Roy]

Do you cry when you buy gas? You know how much tax is built into the price of a gallon? I"m flabbergasted.

Appealing to "but we steal in other ways" does not address the theft does it?

No, I do not cry when I buy gas. I usually converse politely with the clerk about the weather and often help damsels in distress with low tire pressure figure out how to use the air machine.

If you're flabbergasted I suggest a healthier diet and regular exercise.

 

[greg nr]

Creating? This was in full bloom way back with newt's contract on america. Remember the chant of "not one penny for schools!"?

Well, that was well over 20 years ago. Money has not been pouring into education. Schools have been allowed to rot from within, especially in poor communities without a stable tax base to invest. Then, the gop pointed to them as "failing", and forced charter schools and religious schools to be choices for places to spend the few dollars school systems still had.

Then add in government sponsored poverty, government sponsored drug cartels pouring in tons of cheap cocaine and now meth, and open and wanton racism, and you have the only result possible.

Why anyone would be surprised by this s what surprises me. You haven't been paying attention. Period.

 

[dstroy]

Appealing to "but we steal in other ways" does not address the theft does it?

No, I do not cry when I buy gas. I usually converse politely with the clerk about the weather and often help damsels in distress with low tire pressure figure out how to use the air machine.

If you're flabbergasted I suggest a healthier diet and regular exercise.

Thanks for paying your taxes.

 

[Rob Roy]

Creating? This was in full bloom way back with newt's contract on america. Remember the chant of "not one penny for schools!"?

Well, that was well over 20 years ago. Money has not been pouring into education. Schools have been allowed to rot from within, especially in poor communities without a stable tax base to invest. Then, the gop pointed to them as "failing", and forced charter schools and religious schools to be choices for places to spend the few dollars school systems still had.

Then add in government sponsored poverty, government sponsored drug cartels pouring in tons of cheap cocaine and now meth, and open and wanton racism, and you have the only result possible.

Why anyone would be surprised by this s what surprises me. You haven't been paying attention. Period.

So you think more forcible confiscation of resources is needed to teach children that bullying is bad ?

 

[Rob Roy]

Thanks for paying your taxes.

They're not "my taxes" . I have no problem paying for things which I've made an agreement with another person(s) on, absent any duress on either party.

So you're okay with funding things you disagree with and forcing others to do it too? Could you please explain how that is not a form of theft?

Thanks for respecting other people.

 

[greg nr]

So you think more forcible confiscation of resources is needed to teach children that bullying is bad ?

I reject your question as leading and irrelevant. I do believe we need to invest in education, not depleting infrastructure to the point where it can't do anything but fail.

 

[Rob Roy]

I reject your question as leading and irrelevant. I do believe we need to invest in education, not depleting infrastructure to the point where it can't do anything but fail.

So when you say "we" you assume other people will go along with your ideas and if they don't, you are fine with bullying them to the point of killing them, even if they are leaving you alone?

What's wrong with THAT picture?

 

[rkymtnman]

So you think more forcible confiscation of resources is needed to teach children that bullying is bad ?

I just drove on a few roads that your taxes paid for. Thank you for paying your fair share.

 

[Rob Roy]

I just drove on a few roads that your taxes paid for. Thank you for paying your fair share.

Are you saying roads could not exist unless they were administered in the manner they presently are?

Or are you running away from discussing the fact that government schools are funded via threats and are a dismal failure, both in how they obtain their funding and their efficacy re: "educating" people?

Free markets and voluntary human interactions provide a better way both in their peaceful methods used and in the results. But let's not let facts enter into your emotional nonsensical platitude vomiting.

Could you please define what you mean when you say "fair share" ? Does it consider equality of opportunity and equality of outcome to be one and the same ?

 

[rkymtnman]

Are you saying roads could not exist unless they were administered in the manner they presently are?

Or are you running away from discussing the fact that government schools are funded via threats and are a dismal failure, both in how they obtain their funding and their efficacy re: "educating" people?

Free markets and voluntary human interactions provide a better way both in their peaceful methods used and in the results. But let's not facts enter into your emotional nonsensical platitude vomiting.

Could you please define what you mean when you say "fair share" ? Does it consider equality of opportunity and equality of outcome to be one and the same ?

Thanks again for being a generous member of society. We the people appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts.

 

[Grandpapy]

Allowing the education of the general public to fall below standards set by the "Global Economy" in order to be competitive is nothing but treason.