Functional illiteracy in America

[choomer]

You do realize a that just posting a meme is admitting you've been owned, correct?

 

[SneekyNinja]

You do realize a that just posting a meme is admitting you've been owned, correct?

Nope, watching you post is like watching Drake dance.

Keep up with the current forum trends, Jesus...

And it's not a meme, it's a gif, retard, and there is a MOUNTAIN of them.

 

[choomer]

Nope, watching you post is like watching Drake dance.

Keep up with the current forum trends, Jesus...

And it's not a meme, it's a gif, retard, and there is a MOUNTAIN of them.

Then why don't you post something that backs up the non-gif pithy comments you make, Squeaky?
Don"t you like that Albania beats US literacy by a +10 percentage while spending 2% less GDP on education?

Better keep mining that mountain!

 

[SneekyNinja]

Then why don't you post something that backs up the non-gif pithy comments you make, Squeaky?
Don"t you like that Albania beats US literacy by a +10 percentage while spending 2% less GDP on education?

Better keep mining that mountain!

 

[ttystikk]

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.

Exactly right. Wing.

They don't WANT an educated populace, lest said populace figures out how badly they're being screwed. How else to explain today's political situation?

 

[ttystikk]

The cost of a child's education pales in comparison to their increased economic output as a result of being educated.

Right wingers should want to invest more into children so they've an army of consumers with disposable income to sell shit to.

Their logic is different, apparently.

 

[ttystikk]

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've just outlined the correlation between stratification of educational outcomes with average income in the local tax district. The last half century have seen an acceleration of inequality in both finding and outcome between districts around the country.

I'm paying careful attention, but I grew up in a state that doesn't have the same problems as Baltimore and so a 38% functional illiteracy rate was indeed a surprise to me.

If anyone wonders why America is fast falling off the lead lap of the world's most/best developed nations, this is an excellent place to start.

Good post.

 

[ttystikk]

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.

I fail to see how my voting affiliation (I registered as a Democrat to vote for Bernie in the primary, by the way) directly correlated with the state of education in America?

 

[SneekyNinja]

I fail to see how my voting affiliation (I registered as a Democrat to vote for Bernie in the primary, by the way) directly correlated with the state of education in America?

School isn't about the information you learn, it's about learning to learn.

Finland for example has the best education system in the entire world...with no homework and a focus on real world stuff.

 

[Rob Roy]

if you can understand the meaning of the sentence my point is made. Glad to see those property taxes have been put to great use for your schooling. Please continue to pay. Thanks

Isn't "property tax" a term mashing two opposing concept into one ? Do you think the normalization of oxymoronic speak is a coincidence ? Can you say "patriot act" ? I know you can.

 

[Rob Roy]

step away from the bong young man, it is affecting your ability to reason.

I'm not young, hardly use a bong, preferring mass quantities of .7 gram joints on a daily basis and if my reasoning is suspect, can you point out where I said anything which is inaccurate ?

I'd love to hear your counter argument.

 

[Rob Roy]

School isn't about the information you learn, it's about learning to learn.

Finland for example has the best education system in the entire world...with no homework and a focus on real world stuff.

When you say "best" are you implying that in Finland people participate in education on a voluntary free market basis or is participation / funding mandatory and involuntary ?

If it is involuntary participation, wouldn't it be more accurate to say they have the best "indoctrination system" in the world?

 

[SneekyNinja]

When you say "best" are you implying that in Finland people participate in education on a voluntary free market basis or is participation / funding mandatory and involuntary ?

If it is involuntary participation, wouldn't it be more accurate to say they have the best "indoctrination system" in the world?

I didn't say any of those things, so just no, can it.

Public school was good enough for your spawn so silence.

 

[ttystikk]

School isn't about the information you learn, it's about learning to learn.

Finland for example has the best education system in the entire world...with no homework and a focus on real world stuff.

Norway isn't half bad, either. If America actually wanted to educate our children to world class standards, we could do a lot worse than just adopting their system from top to bottom, starting with paying teachers what they're worth and minimising 'administrative overhead'.

 

[Rob Roy]

I didn't say any of those things, so just no, can it.

Public school was good enough for your spawn so silence.

So because something has been administered poorly in the past, it must be continued because "we've always done it that way" ?

Could you describe the features of indoctrination and tell me why many so called "education programs" are NOT in reality a form of indoctrination?

 

[SneekyNinja]

So because something has been administered poorly in the past, it must be continued because "we've always done it that way" ?

Could you describe the features of indoctrination and tell me why many so called "education programs" are NOT in reality a form of indoctrination?

 

[ttystikk]

School isn't about the information you learn, it's about learning to learn.

Finland for example has the best education system in the entire world...with no homework and a focus on real world stuff.

Teaching kids how to think critically?

That would never do here in America! We want them to think what they're told!

 

[ttystikk]

When you say "best" are you implying that in Finland people participate in education on a voluntary free market basis or is participation / funding mandatory and involuntary ?

If it is involuntary participation, wouldn't it be more accurate to say they have the best "indoctrination system" in the world?

Maybe you should learn a bit more about their system before leaping to conclusions.

 

[Rob Roy]

 

[Rob Roy]

Maybe you should learn a bit more about their system before leaping to conclusions.

Is funding and participation in "their system" on an individual voluntary basis or is it compulsory?