[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.

[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.

[Gamecock]

[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.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Daughter was home-schooled until 3rd grade, so she was already reading at a 6th grade level by then, due to me teaching her phonics, not sight reading.

My son has been in public school since Kindergarten. They taught sight reading. I ended up supplementing it by teaching him phonics in the evenings. He’s 4th grade now, and reads 6th grade level. He hates every minute of reading, and it’s a World War level struggle to get him to do it, but I’ll be damned if my kids will be among the illiterate masses.

[pa_dweller]

Once we get this worked out we can start on when to use apostrophe’s.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Not to worry. They'll find a way to dumb down the equipment so that you don't have to read to use it.

[Reddy]

Educators who turned away from teaching phonics really harmed the children who were placed in their care.

We are reaping what liberals have sown.

[John S Mosby]

While not at elementary level, classic curriculum used to include two years of Latin. They couldn’t do that with this crowd.