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“It's rather difficult to imagine a world where that was the norm and to compare how different our world now must be, when nearly everyone has completed high sc
by cudgy 3y ago
“It's rather difficult to imagine a world where that was the norm and to compare how different our world now must be, when nearly everyone has completed high school.”
Why? Are you sure that there was a significant difference between 4th grade in the 1930’s and 12th grade in modern days? Many students graduate high school barely able to read and write.
- stouset 3y agoSurely you’re joking that you don’t think there’s much of a practical difference between an era where 90% of the population had less than eight years of schooling, and one where the overwhelming majority have twelve to sixteen. I mean, you can literally just look up the statistics on literacy rates.
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- lmm 3y ago> I mean, you can literally just look up the statistics on literacy rates. From what I remember they're shockingly low for a world where everyone finishes high school. IIRC only about 2/3 have even basic functional literacy?
- stouset 3y agoYou remember incorrectly. https://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp https://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_State...
- cudgy 3y agoJust because someone went to school longer, doesn’t mean that they learned more or learned skills they need to function in society. Also, schools today are full of distractions, class changes, unnecessary technology, and much larger class sizes than was present in the 1930’s. It's just not the same environment and simply comparing years of attendance is a naive approach.