Are literacy rates actually falling in the USA?

So something I've been noticing, is that kids seem to be getting dumber. They spent so much time in front of screens that they seem to have a harder time reading. I have heard from some teachers that their students are only barely literate and cannot write well or comprehend text in any meaningful fashion. Is this true? Is Common Core to blame for this? Or is something else going on?

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>Kids spend so much time reading shit on computer that they forgot how to read

Seems like all they do is watch youtube videos

They read long winded Facebook posts also

> % brown increases.
> % literate decreases.

This one is a real brainbuster, OP.

Reading the barely literate ramblings of retards on social media is not reading.

Tell you what else happens: when you are only fed a diet of edited english you only see correctly spelled words and proper sentences. It makes it easier to remember and offers a standard. Being online with morons all day dilutes that and even journalists cant spell or write anymore so unless you pick up a book you arent guaranteed seeing english done right.

Now kids arent even taught in school and can just write muh dick 100 times on a college entrance essay. No one knows even plural rules. Most black kids dont even have primary school english and maths literacy and get sent to college on scholarships. No wonder they chimp out and say shit is racist when they csnt keep up.

Sounds like we need to make people afraid to be stupid

this is probably closer to reality. Anyone got the picture of that SAT test score newspaper article? Read something to the affect of:

>While test scores in america are on the rise, less and less blacks are choosing to take the SATs.

>They read long winded Facebook posts also
full of emoji cave drawings.

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Yes so is comprehension of basic instructions. Especially in Universities.

I play Tera Online. And I have been noticing that peoples writing in that game is getting absurdly bad. I dont know if its to many foreigners are just that people are becoming more illiterate.

They frequently dont know what words mean. They cant type out words. They cant form sentences. Sure this is been a problem with MMOs but it was never this bad.

But thats what we do here. Why Sup Forums has never gone the way of normal forum speak. Its going to get to the point that if you meet someone anywhere else on line that can form a sentence, they must be from Sup Forums. They will identify us by our literacy!

Makes sense. If your family is making a million dollars a year you probably wont be getting a part time job when you turn 16. If your family is making less than 20k, you are probably getting a full time job when you turn 16.

Who cares? You realize this younger generation is learning a whole different value set to contextualize history?

Most of the classic American love of second amendment and distrust of government grew from a seed planted by public school’s handling of history.
That shit is on lockdown now. You will be alive to see America fall without much of a struggle.
Think about that. They may even grandfather your guns so they don’t even deal with a geriatric insurrection, then quietly pick them up after your funeral.
America and freedom dies with you, and you will never be given a valid reason to fight back.

>mongrellus awakening
Yes. You are dumb, you always were dumb and you are getting dumber each day.
Now elites rob you off the one thing providing upward social mobility: education.
You think the world laughing about your rock-bottom retardation and degeneracy is a meme?

>people on phones 24/7 and type out half assed sentences with incomplete words
>phone auto completes words so you dont even have to know how to spell
>many of the people ive known have trouble spelling 5 letter words, even before smart phones became a thing
fuck i could make a bigger list, but whats the point?

Here it is in digestible meme format

Of course they are, you bring in millions of people that don't even speak english and the literacy rates will plummet.
> buttttttt the fooooooooooood
shut the fuck up, the nation that mastered spaceflight and computers can make their own burritos and kebabs.

>Are literacy rates actually falling in the USA?
Haven't you heard? Literacy is raycis.

this likely points out that it's actually harder for a white person to get a job due to higher competition, pushing the intelligence of those that work, higher.

>I think this
>I know people that also think this.

You're an actual fucking idiot. They are reading more due to the internet. And school curriculum has them reading the same amount of literature. You might think they're acting dumber but that's just your own illogical biases, and the current internet culture of bringing popularity to retarded people and loving stupidity might make it seem like it, but no kids are reading more then before.

>muh BBC literacy

You 56% percenters have nothing to do with black population and white population, because you are equally retarted lol

Your country will forever be a cow-farm country full of gun-blazin 56% hillbillies, nigger slaves who rebel you and the rest of the worlds zionist scum.

>muh Savin' Ryans Privates
>muh bbc cuck porn
>muh only right-wing left-wing/ Democrat vs Republican party choice
>muh gay marriage law by nigger slave president
>muh better red 'den dead
>muh nahzee fascists
>muh left cucks

God damn it looks like your country is getting its morals dissolved into carbonic acid

>be me, ''white'' american
>200 years ago owned a plantation for niggers to do my work cuz too lazy
>200 years later
>is 2017
>watch nigger slaves fuck muh white daughters on BLACKED.COM

>yeehaw yall Erobean's gettn' cucked by all dem muzzies
>yeehaw muh baby raycis
>yeehaw muh gay marriage and trans kid freedom
> we r amerimutts n shiet
>childfree KFC deepfried right-wing
unathletic fat vidya playin' manchildren
>cucked MickieD's left-wing cute trap soibois

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It's true here too.

More and more children know how to read, but don't understand what they read and are unable to criticize what they read.

The fuck are you trying to say? I think you just memed your self in to retardation.

>the fuck ur tryn'a say?

Your shit country is expected to have low literacy, high crime rate and radical idiots from both sides of the spectrum, so get used to it

Importing millions of illiterate spics and mudslimes lowers the literacy rate? I’m shocked

Neural intelligence implants better come sooner than later then

>it's the colors fault
Racism isnt for everyone, mutt!
Your own "white" people are illiterate and dumb!

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It worked for the german nation, but it will never work for you. It is a foolish man's excuse to blame other races in your predominantly 72% white nation justifies that your country is filled not with niggers, spics, and 'migrants but with dumb, ignorant to the bone people who are perhaps the most illiterate nation in the world.

Lok u rsict crakah. You is bein a rasict sum bich and shud get shat bah the poleece

No one ever got good at reading and writing just from school. There simply isn't enough of it there. So yes, schools are dumbing them down, Common Core is designed to dumb them down, but that wouldn't matter much if they were reading a half-dozen books from the library every week like we used to.

Reading text messages and FB posts is more like reading a transcript of someone talking. You're just taking in words in order. You're not getting new vocabulary with context to help you understand it, or much sentence structure that requires grammar. It's nothing like reading a book or newspaper article that was written and edited to have a particular structure with main points and supporting points, to have scene descriptions which build a world and activate the imagination.

I've noticed Youtube comments and tweets from people around 10 years younger than me are a lot worse in terms of spelling and grammar compared to people when I was their age.

But based on that, can you say that people that browse this website read better than people who browse facebook?

I would think the answer is yes. I read things other than Sup Forums ever day but even when I used not not read I still wrote and maintained my ability to read. Partially thanks to this website, I think.

Yes, but I don't think Sup Forums makes people better at reading and writing, so much as it attracts people who are already better at reading and writing. Specifically people who care about getting their exact point across with words. Since we care about that, correct writing -- even when it's short and heavy on idioms -- is the norm, and scares away sloppy writers (and thinkers).

>Scares away.

They just post on Sup Forums.

they speak in emoji and ebonics cause they are all niggers

Parents think their job is to raise kids when their job is to raise adults. The result is a bunch of man children trying to raise their kids in the babying way they were raised and everyone is dumber. Nothing to do with computer screens

That could be. I do hate normal forums because of the way people type and the forced politeness and the moderation.