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Cute Blonde Helps Repug Gov Dig His Own Grave

Apr 18, 2009 09:29

Teen sues S.C. on stimulus standoffA Chapin High School senior has filed a lawsuit asking the S.C. Supreme Court to decide who - Gov. Mark Sanford or the Legislature - controls $700 million in disputed federal stimulus money ( Read more... )

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moropus April 19 2009, 14:59:10 UTC

No matter how you want to measure it SC schools are in the bottom 2-3 states and have been for many, many years.

They say about 1/3 of the adults in this county are functionally illiterate. I believe this because when I was still in the USAF, I couldn't go anywhere in uniform without somebody asking me to read something for them. Instructions on a tube of epoxy, how long until you should apply the second coat of paint, stuff like that. They always said they forgot their reading glasses. Yeah? How many people can use the same excuse before I had to conclude none of these people could read and knew if you were in the military, you had to be able to read?

We need to use this money to teach people to read if nothing else, and then maybe some of them could get a better job than stuffing chickens in the processing machines that turns live chickens into Mc Nuggets.

nebris April 19 2009, 16:37:50 UTC

When I was homeless, I met quite a few folks who were just functionally literate. They could read those instructions, the Point A to Point B stuff, but were unable to comprehend more than say the headlines in a news paper. Forget books. Those were beyond their reach.

And keep in mind that I was homeless in Los Angeles, not Charleston.

This brings to mind that Bill Moyers/David Simon piece I posted yesterday in my own LJ.

~M~