I appreciate that you're looking into why kids are illiterate… but a long winding "won't tell you yet!" podcast series where you can't just sit down and read the fucking article and evidence, is FOR ILLITERATES.

It's hard to monetize text, while it's much easier to tell us about inflatable mattresses and QuadrangleVoid, the all-in-one website builder, but the financial incentives against literacy suggest school's not the only problem.
#literacy #books

"If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate."

"Authority will always try to convince you how helpless and bereft you would be without the authority. Americans were neither illiterate nor ignorant before forced schooling. Compulsory, tax-payer funded education has not been an overall improvement for the population, despite the billions of dollars and wasted hours spent on it. To claim Americans need government schools to learn is a grab for power and control, and ignores centuries’ worth of data and lived experience."

#Education #School #Literacy