Dear Uncle TM,
Since I know the government is looking for ways to save money in order to spend money on other things, I got to thinking. From everything that I read the average reading level for people in this country is just about the eighth grade. For some it is more and for others it is less. Anyway Uncle TM I figure that most of the money we spend for grades 9 through 12 is wasted because if they aren’t going to be able to understand it why should we keep on trying to feed it to them? It is like leading a horse to water and trying to make it drink when it doesn’t want to. Anyway it was just a thought.
Signed,
Anna Conda
Dear Anna,
I can tell that you are thinking outside the box but the bitter truth is that you need to crawl back inside the box. First, it is true that you would “save” money on education but all of the high school teachers would have to get government assistance or get a grant to go back to school. Second, America’s weight problem would explode because all of the idle teenagers would demand more and more fast food. And finally, while it is true that the reading level does average out at the 8th grade, it takes our system 12 years to get it up to 8. Sorry.
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