Two-thirds of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare. Over 70 percent of America’s inmates cannot read above a 4th grade level.
Nearly 85 percent of the juveniles who face trial in the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate, proving that there is a close relationship between illiteracy and crime. More than 60 percent of all inmates are functionally illiterate.
Teenage girls ages 16 to 19 who live at or below the poverty level and have below average literacy skills are 6 times more likely to have children out of wedlock than the girls their age who can read proficiently.
Long Beach, CA was ranked the country’s most illiterate city, followed by Mesa, AZ, and Aurora, CO.
So, what's the cure for all this dismal literary news? Take a kid to a bookstore. Buy the kid a book. Teach the dang kid to read the dang book. Bam! Illiteracy obliterated.
Next problem?
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World peace! Give every kid a book. :) So simple.
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!
That's why my grandchildren have a toy box filled with just books....to be read to them and for them to read themselves one day. They also have a toy box filled with toys, of course. ;-)
Hey, by the way, I have a new email address: debsbunch777@gmail.com
That's why I'll be asking you for gramma advice when I get to that stage of the game.
I have a learning disability, I'm no genius, my handwriting can be awful but for all mt failings one thing I am so grateful for is that I've never had a problem with reading- Thank God!
Probably useless trivial fact- In the Medieval Times being called 'illiterate' allegedly did not mean a person could not read or write at all,
but rather that they could not do so in Latin. So some of those Medieval folk might not have been 'illiterate' in the modern sense at all!
So in the medieval sense, we're probably 99% illiterate, eh?
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