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Didn't you have reading comprehension back in primary school or something? How did so many end up functionally illiterate?

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We don't have primary schools in MURICA

We have MURICAN HIGH SCHOOLS and MIDDLE SCHOOLS and SMALL SCHOOLS and IN BETWEEN SCHOOLS and all KKAAANNNDDDSS of yeehaw schools with our Murican burgers
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@HannibalAteMeOut I'll get you a red ruby the second I get 5k 😭
Your boy's broke tho
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@SW-User aww
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@HannibalAteMeOut thank you :3

RubySoo · 56-60, F
I left my job as a teaching assistant last year. Comprehension lessons were the norm when i was in school ( back in the days before Noah built his ark) and were also the norm when i started the job 15 years ago. But many schools ( in the uk) have invested in reading schemes over the last few years and typical comprehension lessons were pushed on the back burner. Each year the childrens literacy skills have got worse.
Last year we brought back comprehension for our lower ability kids. But one day we had a relief teacher who found the book online and read it to the kids and said "we dont even need the books to do this!" WTF??? I was horrified. I told the usual teacher and the supply was told in future she had to give the kids the books....i still cant believe she needed to be told.
Thats how its going in UK schools.....its no surprise to me so many kids are getting left behind. Thats why i left.....
RubySoo · 56-60, F
@Moonpenny yup. Dreadful.
Heartbreaking actually....well...it was for me. X
Moonpenny · F
@RubySoo Me too. That was the only profession I worked in and felt I left something I was passionate about on such a low note.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@RubySoo @Moonpenny it must feel so weird, you know what the right thing is but you're not allowed to implement it... The education ministries around the world think that the system is now so advanced, but people finish school and immediately forget what 1+1 is.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
there's no incentive for literacy now, words have no meaning. this is a deliberate strategy by politicians who seek power through ignorance and hold it through apathy.

the romans understood human nature very well... bread and circuses will keep the populace quiet.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@Yulianna the sad thing is at least in the past we could tell that someone cannot read or write so they're illiterate, nowadays it doesn't work like that because everybody knows how to do these, but they don't take active role in their education and as you said they change the meaning of the words. And of course the good old disorientation techniques that politicians implement... it's a mess.
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Lots of people don’t have access to basic education because it’s unaffordable for them. In some countries, you have to pay to be in elementary and secondary schools. Take my country, Vietnam, for example.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@SW-User so education isn't compulsory over there? Wow... It still surprises me though, that people who know how to write and read still cannot understand what exactly they are reading. They know the words but only individually.
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@HannibalAteMeOut Nope, it isn’t, despite the fact that Vietnamese consider education to be one of the most important necessities. Ironic, isn’t it? 😆 I think learning how to read is one thing, but learning to comprehend it the right way is a different story.
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Some people here can barely put a sentence together, punctuation is a totally foreign concept.
Reading comprehension , what's that? 🤔
🤣
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@SW-User hahah well it's like that theatre of the absurd, you ask something, someone answers to a completely different question they made up in their minds...
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I was raised in the sea by wasps. My reading is ok but my writering leaves alot to be desyred.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@SW-User 😂😂
perceptivei · 36-40, F
Personally, my reading comprehension came to a screeching halt when I got paranoid.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@perceptivei it's understandable because it's a condition you have no control over. I'm sorry it's that way for you, it must be very hard.
perceptivei · 36-40, F
@HannibalAteMeOut It could be worse.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@perceptivei there's always worse
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Many factors contributed to it.
Such as lack of education, poverty, lack access or facilities of education, lack of parenting (exercising kids to read), etc..
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
@SW-User but it's weird... People know how to read and write, but they cannot give depth to their thoughts, they change the meaning of things that don't benefit them...
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In my opinion, two working parents.
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
quietfighter · 26-30, M
You wonder but yet, here we are.
quietfighter · 26-30, M
@HannibalAteMeOut I agree. The world moves forward yet we move back it seems
perceptivei · 36-40, F
@quietfighter Who says the world moves "forward"? It simply moves. In circles. How is our world taking the next step? How? It's not. It's doing the same damn thing it always does... Rotating around and around. It's not expecting any real improvement. Routine can be comforting.


Waaaaait!
quietfighter · 26-30, M
@perceptivei yeaaaaah nownya get it

 
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