I found this podcast from this 
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I subbed today for a 7th and 8th grade teacher. I’m not exaggerating when I say at least 50% of the students were at a 2nd grade reading level. The students were to spend the class time filling out an “all about me” worksheet, what’s your name, favorite color, favorite food etc. I was asked 20 times today “what is this word?”. Movie. Excited. Trait. “How do I spell race car driver?”
I've only listened to one episode so far, but it's really well produced, seems well-researched and very well put together.
From what I gather so far, the ways that the American public school system "teaches" kids how to read is not only completely wrong, but actually saddles them bad habits which fundamentally hinder their reading comprehension.
A huge swath of American adults are functionally illiterate, and I think I'm starting to understand why.
The educated literate Americans are worse lol
They're more likely to support wars on the side of America and other weird shit
"U.S. adults with a bachelor’s or postgraduate degree are more likely than those with some college or less education to have positive views of NATO. For example, three-quarters of Americans with a postgraduate degree express a favorable view of NATO, compared with 56% of those with a high school education or less."
"Literacy was always the most basic tool of capitalist propaganda. If you are not literate, you cannot be fed capitalist propaganda" - Michael Parenti
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/letters/71_07_27.htm
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Yea for sure, not just class but post graduate schools are also extremely liberal in their curriculums and institutions
I mostly posted this just to make the fake Parenti quote tho tbh
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"The revolution that teaches children to read [so they can spell Slobonmi Krainee] has my support."
Could part of this also just be chuds opposing NATO because libs are so fucking crazy about it at the moment? If Trump takes back the presidency these numbers could completely switch around the same day.
I remember seeing similar poll numbers back in 2020 as well
It's definitely because higher education correlates with higher income
Lot easier to support tax money going to war when you're not struggling much
Okay, yeah. This is making me think of Jeff Schmidt's Disciplined Minds, a book I recommend constantly here because many of us are from the PMC and cannot fucking stand the rightwing tendencies of educated westerners (probably should just call them imperialists). It's like...yes, of course literacy is important, of course people need to be educated, but if you're educating them in a sick society, most of them are going to get sick, even if they're capable of regularly churning out scholarly works (or whatever...).