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I have got to stop reading teacher anecdotes about literacy issues in students, this is messing me up (old.reddit.com)

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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 yea

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With poor literacy it’s very easy to internalize propaganda because you lack the critical thinking skills and broader knowledge base that enhanced literacy provides you.

Sure. But even advanced literacy won't save you from an abundance of misinformation. Just ask Thomas Aquinas or Emmanuel Kant.

You can have an extremely well researched and erudite debate over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.