• @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    05 months ago

    I don’t get it…my kid is in second grade and apparently reads at a sixth-grade level.

    The kid is smart…but is he smarter than most of America?

    Actually…probably. I remember a few years ago on mother’s day, he saw a pickup truck merging on to the highway with a balloon arch in the bed. He called him out on his dumb idea before he even finished merging, and a couple seconds later, it flew loose.

    I bet that guy never lived that down.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      5 months ago

      When I was in 2nd grade, I’d finish my classwork so quickly, so often, I got assigned to help 5th graders who had trouble reading.

      They’d send me and a 5th grader out into the hallway, 5th grader would read from a paper or book outloud, and I’d help them with pronouncing words they didn’t know, and explain their meanings.

      Your kid probably is significantly smarter than average.

      … Something like 30 EDIT: 21% of Americans are functionally illiterate. They can’t read beyond roughly a 2nd grade level. ‘Hop on Pop’ level reading skills.

      Less than 10% of Americans are capable of evaluating two stories in the news about the same event, and contrasting what parts are emphasized, left out, and use general knowledge to evaluate bias.

      When I was about to go to college, I was told that anyone who goes to college would need to be capable of that as a prerequisite.

      Now, we have many with bachelors degrees or higher that can’t even pull that off.