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High School Dropouts Aren't Reading This Intel!
The numbers are startling. A national disgrace. Of the 50 largest cities in the US, barely half finish high school. Why? What's changed in the past 25 years? Is it the government's fault? Do we need a cabinet-level "Poverty Czar" to fix this? Nope. Is it the school system? Do we need to spend more? Hire better teachers? Upgrade the infrastructure? Sorry. We spend more than almost any country in the world. So, what is it? Simple. The kids aren't reading any more! You can blame single-parent households. Or couples working two or three jobs. But it's the technology, stupid. Those dropouts are mostly living in households with precious few books, but of course, they have to have the latest 50" Plasma TV! And video games? Playstation, XBox, Wii, or all of the above. Cell phones? How can a dropout live without a cell phone? Libraries? What are those? Dinosaurs. Book stores? You mean that wierd shop at the mall they bypass on the way to the record store? To buy mind-numbing hip-hop lyrics? Yeah, that one. MP3 players, PDAs, and other contraptions all serve to reduce the chances of a kid doing any meaningful reading. The result? The further they get behind in their reading and comprehension skills, the harder it is to compete for the grades. The lower the grades get, the less incentive they have to continue. The "oh, I'm just not any good at school" has replaced the mantra of last century's "oh, I'm just not any good at math". Well, duh! If you don't start reading at an early age, you're toast in today's world! And there lies the great irony of it all. What SINGLE SKILL could lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and lower-class living standards? Writing! What is required to be a good writer? Reading! Lots and lots and lots of reading. Why are kids falling by the wayside in our current education system? They don't read any more. To add insult to injury, rub some salt in the old wounds, guess who's reading? And learning to write? Yep, the third world. With barely enough money to shove a pump in the ground so they can have access to clean drinking water, people across the planet are LEARNING ENGLISH! And buying books. And gaining access to the Internet. Why? Because no single activity can do more for them economically than becoming proficient in the business language of Planet Earth. |
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