Posted on 12/15/2004 3:09:22 AM PST by Stoat
now thats interesting...
I guess we could always aim lower /sarcasm
the funny part is, you can't fake math. Unlike reading and writing when you can try different (and stupid) ways of making up words and putting sentences together, Math is unequivocal (except during elections and if you are a DUmmie).
Not surprising. Not only does a significant segment of the population seem to be unable to find a dentist, precious few can apparently even spell one.
That has got to be BS. Thats almost half the country.
its bull, because the report cites more than half the country.
Quick, throw more money at the problem!!
you made my day. That quip was just hilarious. Got me laughing.
Fortunately for FR, we seem to get only the most literate GB posters. For that, I am truly grateful.
You can control them better when they are dumb and stupid.
"Math is unequivocal (except during elections and if you are a DUmmie)."
But that depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Agreed....all British Freepers that I've spoken with have not only been articulate but courteous as well.
LOL
I just knew someone was going to say that....
And the reoprt is in The Sun - hardly quality reading material. I suspect most of The Sun's readship is in that 26 million.
I once came first in a test to write a report - I got the lowest score - but the lower the score the easier it was to understand. My tutor said that I came first because "your paper could be read and understood by most of the population - the sort of thing The Sun would publish and its readers understand".
Believing The Sun is about like believing The National Enquirer.
Keep in mind the number of immigrants from Jamaica plus Muslim immigrants.
Yes, but we can read and write but we are still considered dumb for voting for Bush.
More Whole Language training is obviously needed for their teachers.
It is almost an unquestioned assumption, of educational theory and practice both, that the first three years of a child's school-life shall be mainly taken up with learning to read and write his own language. ... It does not follow, however, that because this course was once wise it is so any longer. ... The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to me a perversion.--John Dewey (1898)
Bingo.
It's Whole Language and Child Centered Learning.
I have decided this method of NOT teaching children to read and write was brought in for the purpose of dumbing down society and it has worked.
I tutor kids from Grades 1 through 6 to teach them how to read, spell and write properly. They are all the same. Products of this whacky whole language method.
What a difference in makes in a child's life when they see that they are actually not stupid (which is what they think of themselves), but were just not taught properly. It is amazing.
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