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I have got to stop reading teacher anecdotes about literacy issues in students, this is messing me up
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Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.
I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.
Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright 
I don't know how it's done, but I assure you that I have tried to teach people basic tasks which amount to "read this sentence and then press the button it says to press" and been unable to even with coaching. Fully grown adult people in their 20s and 30s who have jobs and families and hobbies and all.
Well, not so much hobbies. A lot of them do nothing with their (dwindling) free time but watch TV, movies, or anime.
Honestly. If i was in that position: were i have to read a sentence and press the button i would also pretend i cant do it. Just to mess with whover is making me do it.
As for watching anime dont you have to read a lot of subtitles for that? Or do they speak japanese and chinese?
I'm not making anyone do anything, if you can't read don't get a job doing paperwork
Every popular anime since 1980 has been dubbed in english
Dont do paperwork period. Thats the devils work.
I didnt know about the anime thing. I was under the impresion that most anime was not oficially localised for english. And fans were only able to aford subs.