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How did that first lady got her driver's license if she could not read??? What do you have to do in the U.S. to get a license, point a car and say: "That a car"...?? o_o
Idk about older ppl, but young students in school now are just being passed through the system without being able to read at an alarming rate. Instead of working with them and making sure they can read before qualifying for the next grade level, the schools just say they have poor reading comprehension skills so they have someone read their tests to them. How is that going to help? When you go to apply for a job and tell them, I have this legitimate "condition" of bad reading comprehension even though I graduated high school, are their potential employers going to read the application or tests to them? No. They probably won't even want them as employees. The educational system in the U,S. makes me angry sometimes.
***** Good for Mississippi. A have a friend who's a teacher in Ohio and they literally have people just read tests to students who can't "comprehend" what they read. Nobody is going to do that for someone their whole life. They have to learn to comprehend. I have a friend with legitimate dyslexia and he still learned how to read, it was much harder but he still had to learn. It's just getting ridiculous these days.
***** Yes that's another problem... it seems like giving students a false sense of self-esteem is more important to some people than actually helping the students develop legitimate skills. Who cares if people are dumb and incompetent as long as they're happy right?
***** Well yes that's true, I was being sarcastic when I said who cares if people are dumb as long as they're happy. I think with the schooling it's a matter of misplaced self-esteem- some people think this nonsense if good for students' self-esteem, but someone who is pushed to do well for themself can have a truly grounded sense of self-esteem as opposed to someone who is told by others "you're great" but eventually comes to realize they don't amount to anything at all. And on top of that, eventually someone less sensitive will come along and tell them how incompetent they are.
midnight15086 i's tells it likes it iz. Them sculls these days, Dr don kno nuphin bout no teach kuds k. F rul tho theys teachas theys jus raciss mufuckas main!
Some people are stricken with dyslexic disabilities through no fault of their own resulting in difficulty with the written word or numbers. Why not focus on their strengths instead of using their disabilities as barriers against them.
I'm in Australia. The island state of Tasmania, Australia's smallest state, has an egregious level of illiteracy. Small town problems, inter-generational lack of reading capacity, cultural narrowness and mainly a certain education system that perpetuates disadvantage: most schools go to yr 10 only. One needs to often leave a small hamlet to attend a larger school to complete yr 12. Some parents, they say, are reluctant to allow their child to commute, they're afraid they'll lose them to the mainland or Hobart where Tasmania's university is located. Particular social contexts and the ingrained nature of parochial cultures and even families themselves, need to be considered when tackling the scourge of illiteracy, wherever it exists.
@Phalanx3800 I've always excelled at reading. I went to a good private school for kindergarten and 1st grade and was reading at a 3rd grade level by the end of 1st grade, and at a 9th grade level in 5th grade. But just because someone can't read does not mean they are stupid. More often than not, they have a learning disability such as dyslexia that went undetected, and were too embarrassed to tell someone of their problem because they did think they were stupid because they couldn't read.
***** That's exactly what happened, still would without child labor laws I imagine.My grandfather dropped out and went to the mines very young, he wasn't even ten, couldn't read until he learned in his twenties.
I failed 4th grade. We moved from my little dinky mining town to a bigger city in Kentucky and I was so far behind I failed the first nine weeks, then the second nine weeks, my teacher did nothing. Didn't contact my mother, didn't come to me to ask me what was going on, why I couldn't read or do math like the other kids. I was really behind because my previous school was so under funded, our books were from the 80s and this was 1998. When I went to high school I had still never seen a computer before and didn't know how to even turn one on. The schools in that region are seriously underfunded and the kids suffer from it, our parents saw nothing wrong, we had MORE education than they did, even if it was under par compared to the rest of the country.
I hate how much schools spend on sports, what's the point? How many kids are going to go on and make sports their career? Not many, maaaaybe 1% maybe. We need to learn, not kick a ball around and not all of us are physically fit enough to do sports, I was born with spina bifida occulta, I have a limp, can't do much physically lol my aunt is homeschooling her kids. I went to community college with a homeschooled kid, she was perfectly normal and so smart beyond her years, she was 17, in college already. So they're not weird, unsocialized or not smart. They're perfectly normal, nothing wrong with homeschooling imo.
Exactly I think it is a very underrated teaching method. I know the teachers are trained and educated to teach but when they are teaching a few hundred students a day it doesn't leave much time to help the stragglers one on one.
109367 Mmm, yes, a lot of kids don't fit in with sport, it's a source of bullying, etc. Few do sport for a living, but they say physical activity is important, esp with a lot of obesity in usa and here in Australia. Movement helps with learning, sitting for too long is not healthy we now know. Kids need to sample various activities to allow them to see what they like. If you were born with that, I guess school sport would have been a problem for you.
@bsartist In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries America had one of the highest rates of literacy in the world. The most widely ciculated paper in France in 1819: 11000 subscribers, in Russia 300, and in America: 18000. Even the pioneers read Shakespear. America values equality, and "professional intellectuals" are not worshiped as they are in other countries. This doesn't mean Americans are anti-intellectual, mass eduaction is a pillar of American national identity.
Part of the problem, and potentially a major factor in all this, is the fact that America is in general a very culturally anti-intellectual place. This sentiment toward education and knowledge in general pervades all levels of society and is particularly pronounced, as others here have suggested, in the realms of politics and religion. Large swaths of the nation wallow in a kind of uninformed populism. We have a very poor attitude toward human services, while business interests supersede all.
@winterstellar You make an interesting point. Western Europe has largely become a fundamentalist free zone unlike in the US where we have more than enough religion to skin numerous cats. Even the English don't pretend to be religious. Must be the legacy of state-backed churches and religious zealotry and intolerance in the past.
I had to laugh at the end of this report: You can find information about illteracy programs near you on ABCNEWS.COM … unless, of course, you can't read, in which case you can't find out anything at all! Didn't anyone think that through before putting it on the air?
And just one more thing, in my profile I've entered "Thailand" as country, but I was born, raised and have been a norwegian citizen all my life. But like many norwegians my age or older, I have a condo there I use for frequent holidays. I'm in orway now, but april 5th I'm going back down there for the SongKran festival among other things. I'm just mentioning this so that some people here may know that they're actually trying to teach a scandinavian about Scandinavia. : )
This is disgraceful. Mrs. Baxley quit school in the 9th grade. This means that the public school system intentionally pushed a student who couldn't read through the system with full knowledge that she was illiterate. Fucking shameful. They knew she wasn't learning anything and they didn't do anything about it. How is this acceptable?
if you put six illiterates into a room, within five minutes you will have a pecking order. you will have the Head Illit looking down her nose at the Semi Illit. I knew THREE illits, years ago, and when one of them started to read and write,the other two used to say, "Oh, look at silly marguerita". so, you see, most of them do NOT want to learn anything. theywould rather go running back to the boss with gossip, lies and half truths, causing friction amongs the staff. SPAY THEM ALL, i say!!
@HeavensRepublic Sounds like you are a doctor. If so, what is your specialty? You make avery salient point. After all precriptions have labels and often written instructions.
even ONE illiterate person is one too many. but most of the poorer people do NOT want education. it is a dirty word to them, the dirtiest in their vocabulary. if you educate them, you will end up with a nation of EDUCATED CRIMINALS. think about that. if these people want to remain thick, so let them be. perhaps illiteracy could be outlawed, which would mean the criminal types could be put into a military type of jail and educated up to a point. BUT ONLY UP TO A POINT.
i love the way the state of arizone dresses its criminal fraternity up in PINK clothes to show them who the boss is. most of these criminals are probably semi illiterate of whatever. but it might be a good idea to keep them in a compound, like a concentration camp, and get them to work with their hands. knitting, say. or making cardboard boxes or whatever. maybe then they could earn money and feel they are in some sort of society instead of being locked up in a cell. that way they could be sane
whydo educated americans say they get something "for free" which is grammatically incorrect? they can get it "for nothing" or "free" BUT NOT "FOR FREE". and they pronounce Water as waw-der, Butter as budder and so on. Why can they not say T????? and in New Orleans, the blacks, probably the uneducated ones, call it N'awlins!!! oh, god, I though the americans spoke the best english. some say the Canadians speak better. but do they? they have a HUGE u.s. influence. As for the Anzacs ....!!!
See I don't quite believe all this in order to form words you have to know letters in order to no letters you have to know your alphabet you can't learn to speak unless you learned what words are the only way to learn what words are to learn the alphabet to learn to read I believe that these people can read better than they say they can that's just a fact of simply learning to speak words say words understand what they mean I don't quite get what the big deal is if you want to learn you will find a way I think a lot of people like to make excuses for why they didn't learn to read or that no one would help them where there is a will there is a way I'm living proof of that I couldn't read until 3rd grade but I didn't blame other people I don't make excuses 1 way or the other I was going to learn and no 1 and nothing was going to stop me people need to take accountability for their actions or for their inactions stop making excuses for why they couldn't do this or for why they couldn't do that I'm blind and I did it their is no excuse either you want to or you dont some people are always in that woe is me victim mentality
How sad for you to be so condescending to other human beings. Have you ever met someone with a reading disability? Believe me, it's not a choice and it has nothing to do with motivation. I hope others see your message as one of ignorance rather than one of anger and disrespect for others' needs.
She made it to the 9th grade and was still illiterate? I can't see on what planet this is even possible.
TheBookWorm1718 Why the heck do they become teachers if they don't like it, I don't get it?
I Terry I was In Special Education it and learn to Read good it Help A lot with Books I could not College in Special Education could not at all I mentioned To Friends I was a Slow Learner I got years a lot They we was dumb Get The Help
America planet
We need more Adult Literacy Programs that are willing to tutor these poor individuals
How did that first lady got her driver's license if she could not read??? What do you have to do in the U.S. to get a license, point a car and say: "That a car"...?? o_o
Serafina They have oral tests for illiterate people. I know, it's dumb, how the fuck are you gonna navigate if you can't fucking read?
Maybe she got her lisence after she learned to read?
I'd say most Americans I've come across, online, are almost literate.
Idk about older ppl, but young students in school now are just being passed through the system without being able to read at an alarming rate. Instead of working with them and making sure they can read before qualifying for the next grade level, the schools just say they have poor reading comprehension skills so they have someone read their tests to them. How is that going to help? When you go to apply for a job and tell them, I have this legitimate "condition" of bad reading comprehension even though I graduated high school, are their potential employers going to read the application or tests to them? No. They probably won't even want them as employees. The educational system in the U,S. makes me angry sometimes.
***** Good for Mississippi. A have a friend who's a teacher in Ohio and they literally have people just read tests to students who can't "comprehend" what they read. Nobody is going to do that for someone their whole life. They have to learn to comprehend. I have a friend with legitimate dyslexia and he still learned how to read, it was much harder but he still had to learn. It's just getting ridiculous these days.
***** Yes that's another problem... it seems like giving students a false sense of self-esteem is more important to some people than actually helping the students develop legitimate skills. Who cares if people are dumb and incompetent as long as they're happy right?
***** Well yes that's true, I was being sarcastic when I said who cares if people are dumb as long as they're happy. I think with the schooling it's a matter of misplaced self-esteem- some people think this nonsense if good for students' self-esteem, but someone who is pushed to do well for themself can have a truly grounded sense of self-esteem as opposed to someone who is told by others "you're great" but eventually comes to realize they don't amount to anything at all. And on top of that, eventually someone less sensitive will come along and tell them how incompetent they are.
midnight15086 i's tells it likes it iz. Them sculls these days, Dr don kno nuphin bout no teach kuds k. F rul tho theys teachas theys jus raciss mufuckas main!
Some people are stricken with dyslexic disabilities through no fault of their own resulting in difficulty with the written word or numbers. Why not focus on their strengths instead of using their disabilities as barriers against them.
I'm in Australia. The island state of Tasmania, Australia's smallest state, has an egregious level of illiteracy. Small town problems, inter-generational lack of reading capacity, cultural narrowness and mainly a certain education system that perpetuates disadvantage: most schools go to yr 10 only. One needs to often leave a small hamlet to attend a larger school to complete yr 12. Some parents, they say, are reluctant to allow their child to commute, they're afraid they'll lose them to the mainland or Hobart where Tasmania's university is located. Particular social contexts and the ingrained nature of parochial cultures and even families themselves, need to be considered when tackling the scourge of illiteracy, wherever it exists.
And that's the way the elites want it...
I don't understand how that lady could have been a film producer without knowing how to read? That's just bizarre and shocking.
@Phalanx3800 I've always excelled at reading. I went to a good private school for kindergarten and 1st grade and was reading at a 3rd grade level by the end of 1st grade, and at a 9th grade level in 5th grade. But just because someone can't read does not mean they are stupid. More often than not, they have a learning disability such as dyslexia that went undetected, and were too embarrassed to tell someone of their problem because they did think they were stupid because they couldn't read.
I'm from Eastern Kentucky, lots of illiterate folks there, mostly older people though.
***** That's exactly what happened, still would without child labor laws I imagine.My grandfather dropped out and went to the mines very young, he wasn't even ten, couldn't read until he learned in his twenties.
I failed 4th grade. We moved from my little dinky mining town to a bigger city in Kentucky and I was so far behind I failed the first nine weeks, then the second nine weeks, my teacher did nothing. Didn't contact my mother, didn't come to me to ask me what was going on, why I couldn't read or do math like the other kids. I was really behind because my previous school was so under funded, our books were from the 80s and this was 1998. When I went to high school I had still never seen a computer before and didn't know how to even turn one on. The schools in that region are seriously underfunded and the kids suffer from it, our parents saw nothing wrong, we had MORE education than they did, even if it was under par compared to the rest of the country.
I hate how much schools spend on sports, what's the point? How many kids are going to go on and make sports their career? Not many, maaaaybe 1% maybe. We need to learn, not kick a ball around and not all of us are physically fit enough to do sports, I was born with spina bifida occulta, I have a limp, can't do much physically lol my aunt is homeschooling her kids. I went to community college with a homeschooled kid, she was perfectly normal and so smart beyond her years, she was 17, in college already. So they're not weird, unsocialized or not smart. They're perfectly normal, nothing wrong with homeschooling imo.
Exactly I think it is a very underrated teaching method. I know the teachers are trained and educated to teach but when they are teaching a few hundred students a day it doesn't leave much time to help the stragglers one on one.
109367 Mmm, yes, a lot of kids don't fit in with sport, it's a source of bullying, etc. Few do sport for a living, but they say physical activity is important, esp with a lot of obesity in usa and here in Australia. Movement helps with learning, sitting for too long is not healthy we now know. Kids need to sample various activities to allow them to see what they like. If you were born with that, I guess school sport would have been a problem for you.
@bsartist In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries America had one of the highest rates of literacy in the world. The most widely ciculated paper in France in 1819: 11000 subscribers, in Russia 300, and in America: 18000. Even the pioneers read Shakespear.
America values equality, and "professional intellectuals" are not worshiped as they are in other countries. This doesn't mean Americans are anti-intellectual, mass eduaction is a pillar of American national identity.
that's why you have the internet you have to read you can listen and watch from it it will be hard but possible.
@001Dixie Where are you from?
Part of the problem, and potentially a major factor in all this, is the fact that America is in general a very culturally anti-intellectual place. This sentiment toward education and knowledge in general pervades all levels of society and is particularly pronounced, as others here have suggested, in the realms of politics and religion. Large swaths of the nation wallow in a kind of uninformed populism. We have a very poor attitude toward human services, while business interests supersede all.
@winterstellar You make an interesting point. Western Europe has largely become a fundamentalist free zone unlike in the US where we have more than enough religion to skin numerous cats. Even the English don't pretend to be religious. Must be the legacy of state-backed churches and religious zealotry and intolerance in the past.
How can we find out about literacy programs if we are illiterate!?
@winterstellar how did religion come up?
This is a suject that merits our attention... Mike Gibbowr
I had to laugh at the end of this report: You can find information about illteracy programs near you on ABCNEWS.COM … unless, of course, you can't read, in which case you can't find out anything at all! Didn't anyone think that through before putting it on the air?
And just one more thing, in my profile I've entered "Thailand" as country, but I was born, raised and have been a norwegian citizen all my life. But like many norwegians my age or older, I have a condo there I use for frequent holidays. I'm in orway now, but april 5th I'm going back down there for the SongKran festival among other things. I'm just mentioning this so that some people here may know that they're actually trying to teach a scandinavian about Scandinavia. : )
This is disgraceful. Mrs. Baxley quit school in the 9th grade. This means that the public school system intentionally pushed a student who couldn't read through the system with full knowledge that she was illiterate. Fucking shameful. They knew she wasn't learning anything and they didn't do anything about it. How is this acceptable?
It isn't a crisis, it's the only viable execution cluster ever correctly diagnosed.
Tensions are high here. Given the topic of this video, I'm guessing all typos will be frowned upon.
How TF does she have a house bro she dropped out 9nth grade what about a job like what you have to fill out an application right?
if you put six illiterates into a room, within five minutes you will have a pecking order.
you will have the Head Illit looking down her nose at the Semi Illit.
I knew THREE illits, years ago, and when one of them started to read and write,the other two used to say, "Oh, look at silly marguerita". so, you see, most of them do NOT want to learn anything. theywould rather go running back to the boss with gossip, lies and half truths, causing friction amongs the staff. SPAY THEM ALL, i say!!
yep that gap is startling
2:00 lol Pierre Thomas, New Orleans Saints FTW!!
@HeavensRepublic Sounds like you are a doctor. If so, what is your specialty?
You make avery salient point. After all precriptions have labels and often written instructions.
@Bayonetta4 Knowing history is not the same as being illiterate-two different levels there.
floyd mayweather
even ONE illiterate person is one too many. but most of the poorer people do NOT want education. it is a dirty word to them, the dirtiest in their vocabulary. if you educate them, you will end up with a nation of EDUCATED CRIMINALS. think about that. if these people want to remain thick, so let them be. perhaps illiteracy could be outlawed, which would mean the criminal types could be put into a military type of jail and educated up to a point. BUT ONLY UP TO A POINT.
Gabe Newell
how the fuck is this even possible?!?!?!
i love the way the state of arizone dresses its criminal fraternity up in PINK clothes to show them who the boss is. most of these criminals are probably semi illiterate of whatever.
but it might be a good idea to keep them in a compound, like a concentration camp, and get them to work with their hands. knitting, say. or making cardboard boxes or whatever. maybe then they could earn money and feel they are in some sort of society instead of being locked up in a cell. that way they could be sane
They were too panzy to go on TV!
I am right and you're just sad because I speak facts and I don't care if it's condescending.
whydo educated americans say they get something "for free" which is grammatically incorrect? they can get it "for nothing" or "free" BUT NOT "FOR FREE". and they pronounce Water as waw-der, Butter as budder and so on. Why can they not say T?????
and in New Orleans, the blacks, probably the uneducated ones, call it N'awlins!!!
oh, god, I though the americans spoke the best english. some say the Canadians speak better. but do they? they have a HUGE u.s. influence. As for the Anzacs ....!!!
See I don't quite believe all this in order to form words you have to know letters in order to no letters you have to know your alphabet you can't learn to speak unless you learned what words are the only way to learn what words are to learn the alphabet to learn to read I believe that these people can read better than they say they can that's just a fact of simply learning to speak words say words understand what they mean I don't quite get what the big deal is if you want to learn you will find a way I think a lot of people like to make excuses for why they didn't learn to read or that no one would help them where there is a will there is a way I'm living proof of that I couldn't read until 3rd grade but I didn't blame other people I don't make excuses 1 way or the other I was going to learn and no 1 and nothing was going to stop me people need to take accountability for their actions or for their inactions stop making excuses for why they couldn't do this or for why they couldn't do that I'm blind and I did it their is no excuse either you want to or you dont some people are always in that woe is me victim mentality
I can toteily rede and rite
How sad for you to be so condescending to other human beings. Have you ever met someone with a reading disability? Believe me, it's not a choice and it has nothing to do with motivation. I hope others see your message as one of ignorance rather than one of anger and disrespect for others' needs.
lol!!!
I think it's bull shit.
Russian was here.
maybe the 7 million people who cannot read are immigrants from another country.
No, then how did these immigrants passed the immigration exame? You just saw a video of two U.S. born citizens.