Meanwhile when you say: "Feeding kids is alright" you are run through some towns.
JuneFall
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the problem seems to be that a lot of kids are being taught a fundamentally incorrect method of how to decode written language that's making it much harder for them to read that it otherwise should be
While I accept that it could be the case here - and having read up a bit on it rings true - there is a real danger of "educated" people often liberal with a slight to conservative or neoliberal, to tell people how education really works and that alternatives are wrong or false, often on grounds that are very flimsy or completely propagandistic.
The classism aspect in such things is something I look for first (with keeping other -isms in mind). Then of course there is the aspect of culture and financing. But before I look into that I try to look at how the things we talk about are used as a filter and their surrounding structures are. Only then at earliest I tend to look into effects claimed to be there (and think about how they could be disproved and what influences were missed).
For example institutions for
CW
"children with learning disabilities", which were a catch all phrase for plenty of humans to not have them interact with the white "norm" population in other schools are not that good for kids in them, especially since they hinder inclusion. That regular schools suck doesn't mean that it would be a correct way to keep kids away from their peers.
Historically a lot of classism, homophobia, racism, moralism etc. were ingredients to that, too.
The point is inclusion is important and the more common system has to adapt. Financing schools in the USA is faulty in any case and how they are and how political they are lead is another big problem, besides them functioning as child care and education for factory workers, instead of what they could be.
But then you'd have to elect one of the 30% of people who can read.
Not the case. I worked a while ago with a couple of comrades who weren't able to comprehend the texts we had to tackle in our union work and what they do might interest you. They did speak with people about it and were often better informed than those who read the texts but thought they understood them.
Even if the schools are passing kids despite not being able to read
And schools should always pass kids. The body of literature, theory and experiments in that regard for teaching education in Europe is quite extensive. If your society is structured around passing grades then the way to built up on the ability of students isn't to force them for years in the same rooms, but to change what they experience, keep up the social links and give specific support.
Besides that even if a school isn't able to give specific support it is better for kids to not be put in repeating classes.
What you write is true though, having cultural attitudes at home that do sometimes center books are great. They ought to be somewhat supplemented even for kids that are praised as being smart with other things, that are beneficial for social and physical aspects. If your kid likes a certain series, try to enable the kid to visit a fan conference about it or alike.
Just like in Le Guin's Earth Sea, one of the most important lessons for the young magician's apprentice wasn't to control magic. It was to chill under trees and find calm as well as connection in nature.
Thanks for that! Bear-ing the fruits of federation I am.
Libs are all about the marketplace of ideas until they're outnumbered in it.
New site tag line just dropped
I don't actually go through your post history. You also did a non-pology. Not an apology. That you know.
Still waiting for that till you become a person able to speak with again.
I think this is the objectively correct answer 
However how about for me who is sadly an older adult?
A friend of mine is a Spanish first language speaker and when I visit them the next time I would like to have a rudimentary language skill set, just to be nice and show appreciation to them.
worked back-of-house
Does this idiom mean working in areas without customer contact like back office, kitchen, maintenance, IT, technical stuff, labs etc?
As part of the ruling class and one of the secretive reptiles he ought to know after all. /s