Why are so many Americans functionally illiterate?
bbc.com
How come Americans can't read?
Gavin Phillips
Owen Lewis
because burgerland really buys into the homeschooling meme and their public school system is shit
Connor Gutierrez
The thing to consider is the US is massive compared to other parts of the world. New England is about the size of a European country, very unreligious, and loaded with some of the best public schools in the nation and best universities in the world. It’s a world leader in biotech and medical science.
Conversely many other parts of the US are more or less 3rd world. The country is very heterogenous, and it’s in part due to a negative feedback loop, where a lack of money begets a lack of educations, which further erodes education as a lack of priority,less funding for education, repeat ad nauseum
Nathaniel Green
Joshua Flores
The two people from the video weren't homeschooled I think.
Luis Ward
I don't understand why americans use the "you cannot judge US as a whole because it's massive and varied" defence all of the time while same can be said by Russia, which is 95% third world but has several bigger cities with unbelievable amount of culture, riches, modern tech and smart people. Not a russian (I'm eurofag) but seen a documentary series about some guys visiting random locations in Russia in depth and it's unbelievable how some places are beautiful and look pretty much 1st world, while some other places live in medieval times.
Not saying that it's incorrect what you say about US, just saying that using that defence only goes to show that US has massive problems if you say that most of the country is backwater white trash.
James Edwards
Michael Howard
The difference is that Russians living in backwater areas are literate and have at least a passing familiarity with fine literature. Definitely more so than in the U.S which are cultural wastelands.
Jose Young
too much mcdonalds restricts blood flow to the brain, honestly americans are barely human
Adrian Garcia
The literacy issue has nothing to do with "backwater areas". Examining the literacy rate by race will immediately show that it appears to be a racial issue, but it's not related to IQ or inferior/superior phenotypes (there is no such thing). No, it's a teaching problem. Public schools in urban areas are essentially shitty daycare centers. The teachers don't give a fuck and have no interest in teaching these kids, and there have been numerous scandals where schools were caught teaching kids explicitly how to pass the tests and only the tests, to bring up their averages and net them more funding. Then you have the parents of these kids who were brought up in those same shit-tier schools and don't know any better.
The US is in dire need of a complete overhaul of our education system, but specific attention needs to be paid to urban schools rather than at best, continuing to sweep it all under the rug, and at worst, blaming the students themselves for being "unteachable" which is bullshit of the highest order.