I'm going to go ahead and put this ideological flag down: we need to bring the US reading level up. We absolutely need a way to make sure that kids are graduating at, ideally, a 12th grade reading level, but definitely above third, and we need to get adults to read more too
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Now it’s down to 3rd grade and they can’t sign their own names?
Damn the Reagan GOP did a great job!
“Who… are you?”
“I’m the librarian”
Every summer, my city government promotes one book through the library. There is a book club meeting and information on the city's website and newsletters.
Did you mean to post this somewhere else?
it's 2025, lots of important information is stored in formats other than the written word, and the state of general media literacy is dire.
I care about education a lot and wish we could just throw shit like this at the wall and see if any of it sticks.
I loved those when I was a kid; now I want one as an adult
It really starts in early childhood. Parents need to be reading to their children. Grandparents need to be reading to their grandchildren.
I *get* Curtis Yarvin. I, too, remember a lost golden era of when the Internet was where I went to find the other nerds
and I mean, I still use the Internet that way, instead of launching a conspiracy to crush democracy
but like, *we used to be the good students*
and like.. idk. I just admitted it's a trait I share with Curtis Yarvin, I'm not proud of it, but I want the Internet to be good again
I have a lot of trouble distinguishing when people's reading comprehension falls short from when they're simply uninterested in engaging with ideas outside of whatever narrow focus they brought to the discussion.
Otherwise it's the usual; more money needs to go into schools. Lots more.
Many of my students, bright kids, were almost functionally illiterate.
Despair.
Most people will not be engineers.
But everybody has the franchise to vote. Teach people enough math, economics, & civics to use that.