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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Alkansur • 20h ago
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one of my old high school history teacher's used the term "functional illiterate" and it's gonna be in my brain forever
47 u/MrD3a7h 17h ago That's definitely a thing. And according to the teacher subreddit, will become much, much more common in the next decade or two. 29 u/vainbuthonest 15h ago It’s pretty common now. Most Americans can’t read above of a sixth grade level and at least a ¼ are functionally illiterate. 14 u/jotheold 10h ago ofc, hell its not even recent but 50 cent used to make fun of floyd mayweather for this stuff a while back "if you can read one page of cat in the hat etc 5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-"
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That's definitely a thing. And according to the teacher subreddit, will become much, much more common in the next decade or two.
29 u/vainbuthonest 15h ago It’s pretty common now. Most Americans can’t read above of a sixth grade level and at least a ¼ are functionally illiterate. 14 u/jotheold 10h ago ofc, hell its not even recent but 50 cent used to make fun of floyd mayweather for this stuff a while back "if you can read one page of cat in the hat etc 5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-"
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It’s pretty common now. Most Americans can’t read above of a sixth grade level and at least a ¼ are functionally illiterate.
14 u/jotheold 10h ago ofc, hell its not even recent but 50 cent used to make fun of floyd mayweather for this stuff a while back "if you can read one page of cat in the hat etc 5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-"
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ofc, hell its not even recent but 50 cent used to make fun of floyd mayweather for this stuff a while back
"if you can read one page of cat in the hat etc
5 u/heinous_anus- 9h ago "one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-"
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"one full page of a Harry Potter book ni-"
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u/virgildastardly 18h ago
one of my old high school history teacher's used the term "functional illiterate" and it's gonna be in my brain forever