Posted on 12/15/2005 3:19:04 PM PST by Momaw Nadon
let's see....approx 11 million illegal aliens in the United States today ....There they go calling anyone that happens to be US adults again.
And yet, I'm sure the cause of this "epidemic of illiteracy" is completely unknown to the idiots in the Press.
calling anyone that happens to be HERE in the US citizens again.
Step 2, get the 11 million non-english speaking illegals out of the country.
Problem solved.
Thanks loads, Vincente.
Many are the product of Whole Language.
Why most people can't memorize 100,000 words by the sixth grade so they can read proficiently using Whole Language is beyond me.
I'm sure the Educrats wouldn't push a unworkable reading method. I think these non-readers are just lazy.
Federal officials say this trend is puzzling and worthy of research.
Yah......right
"11M U.S. Adults Can't Read English"
Not that this stops any of them from posting over at DU!
I wonder how many of that are "handicapped" and how many are illegal immigrants myself. It would provide for a true measure of the stats to look at those and other factors I think.
They can't SPEAK English, either.
Whole language hasn't been used around here for over 10 years. Phonics has though. It's what I use as a teacher.
Duh...it's called lowering the basket so everyone can get the ball in. It's called dumbing down "education". There's nothing puzzling about it. Go online and look at the sample tests for graduating high school. It's shameful.
AS the drumbeat of "college for everyone" becomes louder and louder, the standards and requirements for all those unworthy, unequipped, and unfit for college and yet who are admitted anyway MUST COME DOWN. And so they have. The fact that there's even such a thing as remedial math and remedial English classes IN COLLEGE is an outrage.
Fo shizzle.
Depends on the area. Standards are becoming tougher here. I expect my first graders to come in from kindergarten reading. Most of them are reading chapter books by tne end of first grade.
What you be talkin bout Willis?
32% can't think. I base this on the Rassmussan poll that says that percent want Bush impeached.
50% of Los Angeles is supposedly "functioning illiterate"
Vinnie would be nowhere without his boy Jorge.
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