A long-awaited federal study finds that an estimated 32 million adults in the USA — about one in seven — are saddled with such low literacy skills that it would be tough for them to read anything more challenging than a children's picture book or to understand a medication's side effects listed on a pill bottle. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
Tell Mr. Toppo that not everyone are in a position to be as smart as I assume he is. The economic situation in some places might not be the same as his. There is in this country two classes. The middle class is almost becoming obsolete while the so-called upper class are becoming the norm in educational schools. Try teaching a child who's hungry, who's mother, if she's around , doesn't give a shit. Father, what father. If this country doesn't start giving the poor a fair shake, forget about 1 in 7, it will be a nation of prison's, and we're almost there.
Sometimes people need to just STOP! Look around at the people from the inner cities, who can't even go to school because of fear of gangs, or drug addicted parents that don't give a shit. Perhaps if people would quit writing about the uneducated and did something to help we might make it 1 in 6.