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.
If they can’t read...
How do they know who they are voting for?
Many of them have really good math and economics skills, especially in selling products requiring weights & measures.
Why? because those evil Whiteys prevented them from reading? or because their parent doesn’t know how to read and is too stupid anyway and is on drugs and doesn’t give a $hit about its kids?
No matter, they can sign their confessions anyway.
The British captured Detroit during the War of 1812. We should have made them keep it.
Not surprised. DemocRats have had free run of Detroit for decades. But education isn’t necessarily a requirement for success. Skilled tradesmen are always in demand.
Pretty sure skilled tradesmen have to be able to at least read and do basic math.
lol
Yup!
Kind of embarrassing when you’re a wall graffiti “artist.”
Then an English language literacy test would be a good think in a federal law mandating minimum voting requirements for federal elections. Great idea for the states, too. A poll tax would be going too far.
They need to raise taxes and spend more on public education. That oughta fix it.
And the other half can't read "cursive".
Lesson #1 for the functionally illiterate residents of Detroit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_conjugation
They voted democrap many times in many precincts in every election.
And many the illegal alien adults (from the MidEast and other countries) also arrive illiterate!
It depends. My dad’s friend was a carpenter with a 3rd grade education and raised his family. But I’m pretty sure he could tell you what 7/8” + 1/2” was.
Uh huh... and my first thought is, did nimrods from Detroit do the math to make this proclamation?
A true testimony to our educational system at all levels.
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