Os EUA, e em Portugal deve ser igual, já se podem gabar de formar iletrados funcionais. Jovens que concluem o 12º ano sem saber escrever e incapazes de ler o que diz no seu diploma.
"A nineteen-year-old college student is suing her former high school for negligence because she graduated despite being unable to read or write.
The student, Aleysha Ortiz, graduated from Hartford Public Schools in the spring of 2024 with honors. She earned a scholarship to attend the University of Connecticut, where she’s studying public policy. But while she was in high school, she had to use speech-to-text apps to help her read and write essays, and despite years of advocating for support for her literacy struggles, her school never addressed them.
Nationwide, 54 percent of the American adult population reads at or below a sixth grade level. Put a different way: only 46 percent of American adults gained even a middle-school level mastery of literacy — let alone high school or collegiate levels.
In a first-world country where we spend nearly $16,000 per student per year to educate our children, that’s a horrifying statistic.
Even with record-high per-student spending, the broken status quo has left 1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.
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