ExtantHuman

If it's still dark out and you haven't yet gone to sleep, it's still night.

I think they bumped up to 5th recently

Or, better idea, no parties like the founders intended

Breadlines ? That's socialism. Can't have that...

Your ideas got us here. With democracy hanging by a thread because both the corporate Democrats and Republicans spent decades weakening the lower classes to enrich themselves. How many 70-80% approval rating policy idea have the Democrats spurned over the years because it would mildly inconvenience their mega donors in the short term?

I think the gutting of school funding, and the adoption of an idiotic non phonics based reading curriculum that was sold basically by some grifter over the last few decades is more to blame. Also Bush's ~~no child left behind~~ Pass All the The Failing Kids Anyway plan.

I'm not sure what these numbers are measuring, but it looks like less than 85% of schools in the US reported their data, could be a sampling bias there. Also, this is maybe at age 15, when many of the worst readers have already dropped out of school.

It looks like most countries have shitty literary levels, then. I was unaware other countries were just as bad. A quick Google showed a few results not quite in agreement saying the average for adults was 7th-8th grade in the US, or that half were below 6th.

Having been permabanned myself from reddit after 14 years, I've never seen that text used as anything other than a mocking tone for the thing being said.

You may have been reading it wrong this entire time.

Look at Mr moneybags, strutting around here with his "enough food to make a bowel movement"

I remember him claiming to have spoken to the president of PR, when was the island thing?

Yes, that is factual. There's a reason newspapers are written to a 4-5th grade level, because adults need it like that.

The rich people will buy up these stocks and become even more proportionally wealthy than the poor because of it.