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.
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.
Believing The Sun is about like believing The National Enquirer.
Yes, but we can read and write but we are still considered dumb for voting for Bush.
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)
That is how you start to enslave a people. If they can not read & or write then they can not pass along the GOD's given freedoms!
And, the rest can't brush their tooth.
The headline is bad enough, but then they tell us:-
A fifth have a worse command of English than a typical PRIMARY school leaver.
If you are familiar with the level of literacy of the typical school leaver here - you know we're really in trouble.
The good news is that only mutants and mouth-breathers read the Sun.
You're right up ther with Los Angles County!
Why Immigrants In Los Angeles Can’t Read National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein If you were told that more than half of the adult inhabitants of the 17th largest economy in the world couldn’t read, you would probably think it was a less developed country like Pakistan or Nigeria.
Well, think again. The place is in the good old US of A.: Los Angeles.
A new study by the United Way of Los Angeles finds that 53 percent of the city’s adult population—3.8 million people—are functionally illiterate.
The percentage soars to 84 percent in heavily Hispanic south L.A., dropping to 44 percent in the greater San Fernando Valley. When we last checked, only 41 percent of Los Angeles’ population was foreign-born. Thus the illiteracy problem in that city is not limited to immigrants. Many of their U.S.-born children must also be functionally illiterate.
But the ultimate cause of LA illiteracy is mass immigration. Directly, it constantly resupplies the illiterate pool. Indirectly, it overwhelms the assimilative mechanism. The quality of English instruction for native non-Hispanic Angelenos must also suffer when resources are diverted to classes full of immigrants (Not that anyone seems to care).
Here are figures for 2000:
Limited English Fluency: L.A. County: 31 percent; U.S.: 8 percent
Adults w/o HS diploma: L.A. County 30 percent; U.S.: 20 percent
High School Dropout Rate: L.A. County: 38 percent; U.S.: 32 percent
Recent immigrants: L.A. County: 13 percent; U.S. 5 percent.
There are numerous opportunities for adult non-English speakers to acquire the requisite skills—many funded by non-profits like United Way.But—confirming a point often made by VDARE.COM’s Joe Guzzardi, who teaches English as a Second Language—only about 15 percent of L.A. County’s low-literacy adult population is enrolled in literacy programs. Dropout rates for these remedial programs approach 50 percent after the first three weeks.Very few working-age adults in Los Angeles are completely illiterate—nearly all can write their name or read a simple paragraph. But most lack the skills required for job related tasks. They are classified as “low-literate,” meaning they are unable to read a bus schedule, write a note explaining a billing error, follow instructions on a medicine bottle, or complete a job application. The distortion of the L.A. economy is sobering. Employers complain that they can’t find workers for high-skilled jobs, but the low wage, low-skill economy is booming. The county employment forecast shows that 282,000 new jobs in the $16,000 to $26,000 pay range will be created by 2008. These jobs include cashiers, dishwashers, security guards, and other occupations requiring only brief on-the-job-training and limited language skills. Wages for all of these unskilled positions have declined in L.A. County for the past 15 years—exactly what you would expect in a workforce inundated by functionally illiterate immigrants.
Why Immigrants In Los Angeles (AND THEIR U.S.-BORN CHILDREN) Can’t Read
Table 1:
Low-Literacy Population Estimates for L.A. County, 2000 By Area:
Antelope Valley 46.7%
San Fernando Valley 44.0%
San Gabriel Valley 49.0%
Metro 64.8%
West 24.3%
South 84.0%
East 65.6%
Harbor 49.0%
Los Angeles County 53.3%
Source: United Way, Literacy@Work: The L.A. Workforce Literacy Project, September 2004.
That this continues to be the case is unsurprising - I know many graduates of top universities that simply would prefer to watch sports on television than read a serious book.
I wonder how many of that 26 million are immigrants?
These raport is obvouslee inkorect.
itz a lod ov awd baullox dis iz.
BS.