Post B7xzZmAl5j5KNueVdo by AnungIkwe@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #B7xzFOGOH8XkRLZ9vs by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
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       Speaking of that video on U.S. illiteracy.The video contains clips filmed on the streets, where a dude with a microphone asks people he meets to "read the index card", and the card contains a short sentence with multi-syllable words. I just realised the people who struggle reading are doing exactly what that alternate reading teaching method (anyone remember its name?) taught kids.They're looking at the start of the word, its general length, and the words around it and essentially guessing what the word in question is.  Sometimes they guess an existing word, sometimes they make up a nonsense word.  Charcuterie -> Character(er)Delicacies -> Delicious / DelicatesDazzled -> ClazzledWore -> WereSilhouette -> StilettoSustain -> SubstainWidespread -> Wild screenAdmiration -> AdministrationPremonition -> PromotionCataclysmic -> Cataslatic   Even when they start trying to actually read the word, they guess the end.Meticulously -> Meta solutionDeteriorated -> Deterieted    One even gave up half way through the word "deficiencies". She started saying the word right, but then failed to follow through, instead saying "define..sieie..ess". It's so obvious, that they're doing precisely what they were taught to do and once you see it you can't unsee it. It's clear this isn't just the result of living glued onto devices. They are specifically attempting to read using the strategies that one technique thought were the key to teaching kids to read. And they are very clear examples of how that technique Does Not Work.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xzFOYTBv0NLQ1b72 by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
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       If you want to see the examples for yourself, they're sprinkled throughout this video. About half an hour for the whole thing, but you can skip around to find the clips he quotes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjzxQFlEy1c
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xzXaTVbzH5WgNYzA by LadyMont@spinster.xyz
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       @Gnomeshatecheese Not just the USA from what I understand, many places in the West are like this. Comprehensive reading is apparently a super power. It's a horrible state. But I do wonder, if the numbers were ever really better than this to be honest. I grew up under the "no child left behind" bullshit (here in the Netherlands for reference) and we had too many kids in class who could barely read at all, let alone on 3rd grade level, while being in 7th grade.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xzZmAl5j5KNueVdo by AnungIkwe@spinster.xyz
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       @Gnomeshatecheese Their little lighted boxes makes them intellectually lazy. Gen Alpha doesn't think they need to learn to read because computers can do everything for them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7xzhdAaRnJYmPJkUC by LadyMont@spinster.xyz
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       @AnungIkwe @Gnomeshatecheese And their parents couldn't give a rat's ass. Which is worse. And TPTB are clapping their hands, because things are going exactly as planned.