Why We Have More Than 40 Million Functional Illiterates

American Thinker ^ | 08/24/2015 | By Bruce Deitrick Price

[Old Sarge]

Because tolerance.

[Da Coyote]

A fair percentage of those appear to be “professors” in our lib arts departments.

[Mr. K]

But they be old skool - we noo skool

[Resolute Conservative]

Most in the NFL and NBA?...

[MeshugeMikey]

An Illiterate People are a Controllable People.?

[Hotlanta Mike]

Ask the liberals...

[goodnesswins]

How many illegals are here? 20 million Plus? There’s half the problem

[GreenHornet]

Well, we don’t have to worry about them being offended by this article. They’ll never know.

[skeeter]

Dolche Sight Words and because 15% of our population is foreign born.

[Vigilanteman]

The two biggest sources of Functional Illiterates are:

1. Publik Skoolz
   
2. Imported third worlders

   . . . in that order.

And, yeah, I was reading simple books by second grade and fairly complex books by grade four. As were most American kids who were lucky enough to complete elementary school in the 1960s.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: How many illegals are here? 20 million Plus? There’s half the problem

We have to ask the author if illegals are counted in the mix. If not, then the problem is even more dire.

[monocle]

Illegal immigrants only increase this dismal statistic.

[kabar]

Immigration.

There are 10.4 million students from immigrant households in public schools, accounting for one in five public school students. Of these students, 78 percent speak a language other than English at home. Overall, one in four public school students now speaks a language other than English at home.

[logi_cal869]

Irony = See prior thread title.

[kabar]

As do legal immigrants even if they are supposed to speak English.

[immadashell]

Publik Skoolz

Imported third worlders . . . in that order.

Publik skoolz AND the teecherz youyuns

[Gamecock]

[Vigilanteman]

Publik skoolz ARE the teecherz youyuns

No AND involved.

[Politically Correct]

So how is it that Chinese kids learn to read?

Just throw’in bombs. All my kids learned phonics because they were home schooled.