America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

[Cloutius Maximus]

Man I remember being absolutely geeked to cop these joints back in the day

Scrounging up money for them book fairs. I wanted all the science type shyt, anything that included experiments or shyt you could build. Removing phonics based learning was a disaster. Reading bleeds into other forms of media consumption like film, tv shows, music, theater, anime, manga, etc. These kids will grow up into people that think The Wire is boring and can't sit through a 3 hour film or play. Not learning to read well makes you a myopic, boring ass person with narrow interests. When you open your mind to new ideas it translates into every area of life including how you dress, what you eat, where you go (reading gives you the curiosity to actually leave your block/city), who you can communicate with (imagine being a dude that can only converse with bird brains).

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Human beings take abundance for granted. Whether it's food, education, or materialism, over exposure of it makes people not press hard on it.

Yes. It's our pay psychology

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Sure cracka.

I stay calling out crackas and c00ns but you always got negative shyt to say about Black people.

Kill yaself.

You are an idiot, then. An idiot that lacks reading comprehension

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Read the article last week. It’s been a slow decline and started about a decade or so ago.

Seems smart phones, lowered standards and switching from phonics based learning all share blame.

Smart phones or tablet at an early age. A lot of parents are giving very young kids screens to keep them occupied.

 

[WIA20XX]

A whole lot lead to this slide in literacy.

Back in my day we had building blocks, lincoln logs, erector sets, legos, books, coloring books, etc...and the king of all - take yo ass outside and don't come back til its dark.

These kids today don't have any manual dexterity, aren't very physical because they don't play, and don't have much independence because all of their life has been structured.

What stopped kids from being outside?

• The Kidnapping of Adam Walsh - Murder of Adam Walsh - Wikipedia
• The Generic Satanic Panic - Satanic panic - Wikipedia

What started to occupy their time?

• The regular NES (much more so than Atari, Coleco, Intellivision)
• Then the Game Boy.
• Ubiquitous Cable (Nick and Disney sorta killed the afternoon and saturday/sunday morning cartoon thing as well)
• The internet + broadband
• Kids getting smart phones and then tablets
• Won't even get into social media and adult videos everywhere.

This is on top of the parents

• More divorces
• Women in the work force
• Parents are more addicted to new technology than the kids

While that's happening, the educational system

• "Social Promotion - i.e you failed a grade, but you get to keep up with your class"
• No Child Left Behind & High Stakes Testing
• New Math
• Whole Language
• Kids getting shot up in classes, because of lack of gun control, so they "need" their phones
• ADVANCED/Gifted/Honors kids reading excerpts but never full texts, not just the kids on regular track
• Better diagnosis of AD/HD/ADD
• Weaponized Legal system against schools

Add in whatever you want to say about jobs, workforce, economy, stocks, housing, decline of the church, decline of 3rd spaces, decline of civic organizations, political polarization, deindustrialization, etc. (and then add in my rant that schools NEVER prepare people to be leaders and entrepreneurs, just consumers, voters, and employees...That's the main job of schools, social control and childcare for workers)

Even if you took phones out of the schools, you'd still have to take phones out of the homes, and out of the hands of the parents.

Is that happening anytime soon?

The opposite is happening.

If folks was really forward thinking, they'd really rethink education at this point.

A lot of school is just straight up trivia.

• What were the themes in Huck Finn?
• With this quadratic equation, can you solve for X?
• What's the capital of South Dakota?
• Is this a split infinitive?

Do you really need 10 years of math to teach folks how to think mathematically? (No)

Did 12 years of English make most folks better at picking out the themes and messages in the latest Block Buster? (No)

When cats have wikipedia/chat gpt at their fingertips - why continue to teach them random facts that 99% will never use again?

Society could do something entirely different, if only they would let go of the past.

But they can't.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

You are an idiot, then. An idiot that lacks reading comprehension

I'm a Black man that call out you goofy ass crackas.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

I'm a Black man that call out you goofy ass crackas.

You read this

Black kids do have lower rates on average. It's sad and hand waving it away isn't going to fix it.
Getting a kid interested in reading at an early age will benefit them as they get older.

And you're conclusion is that it is anti-black and that I'm white then yes you are an idiot without reading comprehension. Fitting for the topic, actually.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

You read this

And you're conclusion is that it is anti-black and that I'm white then yes you are an idiot without reading comprehension. Fitting for the topic, actually.

You ran in to make it about Black people being the worst in a thread about Americans.

Kill yaself you dumb ass ofay fakkit.
Ole what about Black on Black crime ass peckerwood.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

You ran in to make it about Black people being the worst in a thread about Americans.

Kill yaself you dumb ass ofay fakkit.
Ole what about Black on Black crime ass peckerwood.

Did you read the OP?
If you got such a problem why don't you tag all the ones that dapper my post and call them anti black white boys? You are not because you know you are wrong and trying to save face

 

[Piff Perkins]

Smart phones or tablet at an early age. A lot of parents are giving very young kids screens to keep them occupied.

All the people I know who work in tech are very honest that they don't let their kids use tablets while young, and don't let them use social media until they hit a certain age. That tells me everything I need to know. It's like when my dentist says don't eat candy late at night...I'm gonna listen lol.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Did you read the OP?
If you got such a problem why don't you tag all the ones that dapper my post and call them anti black white boys? You are not because you know you are wrong and trying to save face

You don't tell me what to do cracka.
You made the post. But you mad about me talking about yo post.

Stay mad white boy.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

A whole lot lead to this slide in literacy.

Back in my day we had building blocks, lincoln logs, erector sets, legos, books, coloring books, etc...and the king of all - take yo ass outside and don't come back til its dark.

These kids today don't have any manual dexterity, aren't very physical because they don't play, and don't have much independence because all of their life has been structured.

What stopped kids from being outside?

• The Kidnapping of Adam Walsh - Murder of Adam Walsh - Wikipedia
• The Generic Satanic Panic - Satanic panic - Wikipedia

What started to occupy their time?

• The regular NES (much more so than Atari, Coleco, Intellivision)
• Then the Game Boy.
• Ubiquitous Cable (Nick and Disney sorta killed the afternoon and saturday/sunday morning cartoon thing as well)
• The internet + broadband
• Kids getting smart phones and then tablets
• Won't even get into social media and adult videos everywhere.

This is on top of the parents

• More divorces
• Women in the work force
• Parents are more addicted to new technology than the kids

I don't think Adam Walsh and Satanic Panic and the NES did too much.
I played my NES and Genesis a lot and watched a lot of TV but also spent a lot of time playing outside in the 90s.
I think Myspace is when you started to get more young people staying inside because they didn't have to leave the house to spend time with their friends outside of school. Online gaming on consoles pushed it even further

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

You don't tell me what to do cracka.
You made the post. But you mad about me talking about yo post.

Stay mad white boy.

So you are an idiot AND a bytch
Horrible combination

 

[WIA20XX]

I don't think Adam Walsh and Satanic Panic and the NES did too much.

It's pretty well established

Let kids play

The world can be terrifying. But we should still give kids the freedom to explore it.

www.vox.com

free link - https://archive.is/AUtRR

A lot of experts trace the decline of play back to a spate of high-profile kidnappings. It started with Etan Patz, a 6-year-old New York City boy who disappeared in 1979 on the way to the bus stop, argues Paul Renfro, a history professor at Florida State University and the author of Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State. His case was soon followed by the disappearances of Adam Walsh, Kevin Collins, and two Iowa paperboys — Johnny Gosch and Eugene Martin — who vanished during their routes (then, as now, the victims whose stories made the biggest headlines were white).

The crimes weren’t connected, nor were they indicative of a wider increase in child abductions. But they received enormous media attention, with the boys’ stories, photographs, and interviews with their grieving parents featured on newscasts across the country. Some of the boys’ images also appeared on the backs of milk cartons as part of a campaign launched by the nonprofit National Child Safety Council in 1984. The campaign only lasted a few years, but it had an outsize cultural impact, inspiring the bestselling young adult novel The Face on the Milk Carton and creating a climate in which families were “surrounded by reminders of missing children,” Renfro said.

 

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