Posted on 03/24/2017 10:39:29 AM PDT by Lorianne
America's public education system is failing the citizens of Detroit, where the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund reports that 47% of people in Detroit are illiterate. In nearby suburbs, up to one-third are functionally illiterate.
The report, titled "Addressing Detroit's Basic Skills Crisis" makes the problem seem as intractible as the Flint water crisis that is about to hit its third anniversary.
Director Karen Tyler-Ruiz described that level of illiteracy to WWJ: "Not able to fill out basic forms, for getting a job — those types of basic everyday (things). Reading a prescription; what’s on the bottle, how many you should take… just your basic everyday tasks."
Various estimates of the scale of need for basic skills services in the region convey a crisis-level order of magnitude. • The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations.• We also know that of the 200,000 adults who are functionally illiterate, approximately half have a high school diploma or GED, so this issue cannot be solely addressed by a focus on adult high-school completion.
• The remaining 100,000 of these functionally illiterate adults (age 25 and older) lack a high school diploma or GED, another prerequisite for employment success. While these numbers are less severe for the region as a whole, the region at-large is far from immune to this issue. Within the tricounty region, there are a number of municipalities with illiteracy rates rivaling Detroit: Southfield at 24%, Warren at 17%, Inkster at 34%, Pontiac at 34%.
The report offers suggestions for triage as well as long-term solutions.
“That’s retarded...”
Apparently a number of my MBA students are from Detroit...I’ve never seen such atrocious language and writing skills above the 4th grade level.
This is an issue for native ‘hoodrats as well; one problem for cities is that they offer tax breaks contingent on hiring x number of local residents, and too many of those simply have 0 job skills. Illiterate, unaccustomed to showing up for work (or anything else) at a set time...they simply have no role in this new economy, and would have been fairly useless in the old one as well.
I wonder what % of swing voters are illiterate. They say that swing voters actually decide all national elections. It’s pretty amazing if true, that the dumbest 10% of voters who somehow still manage to vote actually determines political winners based on who can sway them that cycle. So no matter who wins, dem or pub, con or lib, the dumbest decided the outcome.
Freegards
Since they can’t read, maybe the Precinct Judges told them where to put their X.
Hard to teach low IQ people how to read.
So long term plans for a permanent Democrat plantation have succeeded, it seems.
About half of Detroit can’t read
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The ones that can read read a map and got the hell out.
The other half to dumb to know it..
Is that why they use those strange symbols when they write on buildings?
The solution to the problem is to fire the teachers who cannot teach, also fire the teachers who cannot read and write, then fire all the administrators including the education board members. Restart the whole system. Repeat as necessary. Then start on the parent(s).
You’d be surprised (or maybe not) to know that quite a few VP’s of Fortune 500 Companies can’t write or spell correctly either.
Much less try to organize an excel spreadsheet.
I've read where upwards of 40% of illegals are illiterate... IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, much less English.
For those who think the “third world” description is hyperbole...
Democrats do not lift people up.
They shove the high performers down until all are equal.
Get your children out of the public schools before they are equalized.
The same is true for Nawlin's too.
And Baltimore (which I affectionately call “Detroit With Crabcakes”)
I think it is a safe assumption that the illiterates are heavily weighted as Dem voters; I doubt there is any swing with them. The Dem party is built around taking from those who do and giving to those who won’t.
Was this a survey of city council members?
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