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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Fugelsang mocks Pres. Dumpster Fire's "literacy."
From my Facebook feed.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)62 Million are also "functional illiterates"
A result of our failing educational system... and, to be honest, probably devolution of general IQ due to diet, exercise, and chemicals in our environment.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)For at least 3 decades, Republicans have been attacking our public educational system. The functional illiterates are the result of those attacks.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)and EXPECT better results and hold students and teachers accountable will continue to plague the US.
For much too long we have depended on importing the "best and brightest" for technical innovation.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help us with purely domestic "political IQ", add to that the brainwashing by right wing media of over a generation of Americans... and President Trump is the result.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)we have Betsy in there to straighten out the mess - "only the best!"
TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts)lettucebe
(2,336 posts)Hee-lair-e-us!
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)he was definitely being sarcastic