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It explains so much
Mar 30, 2024 4:31 AM
ssumner13
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It explains so much
HamSlamwich
Me fail english? That's unpossible!
Pelican3
My daughter the PhD, just referred to the aircraft carrier Midway as an “Army boat”.
sgersh8
I think Hillary had a term for it.....
guitarfourtysix
HeywouldJablowme
No fucking shit
Bystandr
The situation might be percieved advantageous currently to the GoP, but its ultimately destructive, both to them and critically to the US in
Bystandr
many aspects of efficiency, creativity, productivity, innovation and resistance to foreign influence. It is absolutely the worst thing dems
Bystandr
are allowing the GoP and their allies to do, destorying public education and general literacy amongst citizens, currently.
Mrchris67
Yeah! Otherwise known as Trump supporters.
totallyruinedyourday
…and the emotional maturity.
Interleaver11111111
thisizdavid
The poorly educated even think he means it as a compliment.
GloveFullaVaseline
His most clever selling point. Obviously someone thought it up for him, but it was huge. I'll never say that you have to be educated to be smart (I have a master's and I'm lucky to get 10% of jeopardy questions right, probably more like 5) but this is evil genius. As a whole we are stupid Americans.
ElAburrimientoMePuede
That is how you get cheap labor.
agentwestmer
Some sauce:
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/upl">eracy">https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BBFoundation_GainsFromEradicatingIlliteracy_9_8.pdf
easyoneundone
pirateninjaunicornattacksquad
How many people live in Red states?
hanniballectern
Almost all "red states" are some shade of purple. Most "blue states" are also some shade of purple. That said, I do suspect that the voters among those 130 million people are disproportionately red voters.
pirateninjaunicornattacksquad
Voting wise they're purple, sure; but legislatively they've been red for a loooooong time. And it's the legislation that is responsible for setting the curriculum.
Apeofdeath
That seems close to half of the adult population
hanniballectern
In 2022 85% of the US population (333.3 million) was older than a typical 6th grader. 130 million is 45.89% of those people.
HighlandViking
It is
easyoneundone
rimoeng
Believable, but do you have sauce @op?
agentwestmer
Not Op but found these:
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/upl">eracy">https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy
https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BBFoundation_GainsFromEradicatingIlliteracy_9_8.pdf
Thank you for requesting sauce, as much as I love Imgur and the community surrounding it, there's so much awfulness in the world that we can believe things uncritically.
rimoeng
Thank you. Always better with sauce.
easyoneundone
oh trust me, the rest of the world knows that
Muzfish4
If this lot were any more inbred they'd be a sandwich filling.
tacticalattackterriers
While the image is clearly trying to invoke one population (which is almost definitely overrepresented in that statistic, I'm sure), remember that minorities tend to be left to flounder in this statistic with deliberately resource-deprived schools as well. Kind of like all the posts that say "fuck the south, let the racists secede and be rid of them already" are forgetting *most of the black people in the U.S. are in the south* and dealing with the problems on the ground level.
rouzuki
Some might say it's by design...
zanaria
The dept of education is grading them too highly...
SquirrelWithATophat
Looking around me in the world today, I'm surprised the number isn't higher than that.
metalfan1986
And all of them will be voting. Make sure that you VOTE this year
dudehiemer
I wonder what the venn diagram of Republican voters and these people with a 6th grade education looks like.
KarateCanine
I really do think 6th grade is being generous.
HamAdvocate
And the GOP wants to abolish the department of education.
Eidodk
They're the living proof that you don't NEED more than a 6. grade education.
Ffudmethen
They need dumb voters, this is how they accomplish that
cepacolusmaximus
they've been hard at work making public education shitty as possible for at least 5 decades, just so they could say "see, it doesn't work, but I do know a guy that runs a private school..."
whitegirlcanteven
THIS. Many of the people IN education are doing our best in a system they are breaking ON PURPOSE and in AS MANY WAYS AS POSSIBLE, while doing their damned best to get the public to blame teachers and not them. Anyone that doesn't want free, accessible, well-funded public education does not have the public's best interest at heart.
HeywouldJablowme
Wants to? Shit, they destroyed education 50 years ago. Isn't that obvious? Perhaps the greatest tool in politics is saying something is coming that already happened decades ago. Think about it. They want to take our jobs! They already did. They want socialism! They already got it. Socialism for the rich, and cruel capitalism for the rest of us. We need to close the border! They already did. It goes on and on. Truth is, America was overthrown a long long time ago.
commentsbadcomments
And it’s easier to run for profit schools if there isn’t an option
zHurk777
The GOP Wants School Vouchers !!! - magas.
cearn
Because if everyone's "special", no one is.
jgjgjgjgjgjgjg
Those 130 million would disagree if they were able to read this.
HandoB4Javert
Ihaveafork
"Pro-fish-an-see... is that someone who likes watching fishing competitions?"
adol795
it is, but it's in the ocean, so it's actually pro-fish-an-sea
HeywouldJablowme
There's 130 million that would cancel those fucker's out if they only got off their asses and voted.
TheElusiveEnchilada
Hercules99
6th graders can read and comprehend to an extent.
MAN9000
About 1/3 of the US population.
FartsSmellBad
People with a sixth grade education level can read though
HamSlamwich
Not if american public schools have anything to say about it
PinkEater
"can"
DrKonrad
Yeah but they give up when there are too many long words
MendoncycleSmith
May 1970, Reagan shut down all 28 UC and Cal State campuses in the midst of protests against the Vietnam War. October 29, his education adviser Roger A. Freeman spoke at a press conference to defend him. Freeman’s remarks were reported in the San Francisco Chronicle. Freeman said, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. … That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go to college, if not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”
erminio
Reagan want to go to a campus to make a speech to denounce the anti-war movement but where could be go; not Berkeley or UCLA or San Francisco State and definitely not Santa Barbara, the students had burned down the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of America. He decide to go to Cal State Fullerton because there had been any notable activity there and it was in conservative Orange County. After he arrived on campus, the National Guard had to be called in to shut down the school.
Phreax
I remember reading a bunch of articles about university educated people working as baristas or other unrelated (unrelated to the education) job and how they were upset about this. So Freeman was right?
Fasrill
Yes, but for the wrong reasons.
420supercoolusername69
I know people with multiple children who don’t know how sex works and think “doing it standing up” will prevent them from having more kids
Ismellofhockey
Multiple children you say? But how can that be if they've been doing it standing up?
420supercoolusername69
One time the dude said “the baby isn’t due for six months, but we haven’t been together for three months… how’s that my baby?”
gizmomelb
they won't get your irony and logic
flexstar
hanniballectern
Ive thought for years that a poll about Arabic numbers would be great, but TIL it's actually been done. Now we need to do a poll specifically of politicians.
cousteau
I heard they were planning to do one of those later this year.
eromitlab
Reminds me of the poll where a statistically disappointing number of people wanted the US to bomb Agrabah... from frickin' Aladdin.