The return of child labor is right up there with the loss of abortion rights in terms of shocking backslides but people don't seem to care as much about it.
The return of child labor is right up there with the loss of abortion rights in terms of shocking backslides but people don't seem to care as much about it.
I guarantee you the functionality illiterate is a greater proportion of the population than that already
According to this website we're at 21%
I'm surprised it's only 21%. My phytopathology professor likes to ask really basic questions about geography and history. A class of 100~ couldn't answer what or where Carthage was.
:side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:
I sentence you to playing 100 hours of video games that are just maps.
I don't actually know, but they sacked Rome by way of Spain, so... Morroco?
:agony-limitless:
On the other hand I guess this explains the weird popularity of YA novels among older people
Jesus
Edit: From this article about child literacy statistics and man... I've read a lot of things about child poverty and all the injustice in the world, but these statistics got to me a lot more than others. I always knew that I had a very privileged upbringing and this might sound ridiculous to those who didn't, but this made me really sad:
In general, when I read the line "In a study of nearly 100,000 U.S. school children, access to printed materials was the key variable affecting reading acquisition." my first reaction was "Come on, what kids don't have access to books?" only to read a few lines later that... low-income families really don't have books. They can't even read the Very Hungry Caterpillar to their kids. It's a $10 expenditure that some families literally just can't afford.
When I was like 10-12 I'd sometimes read as much as a 300-page book a day and back then I'd always brag about it because it made me feel smart, it never occured to me that all those books cost money that many people can't afford to buy for their kids even if they might want to.
Learning to read is fun and easy if you can afford it, but only then :deeper-sadness:
Oh, I'd believe it, but I am attempting a conservative estimate.