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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Possibly your specific sample is a little off-sync. My two nieces are products of public school and they enjoy their reading very much. One of them bought a Kindle almost as soon as she got a job.
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There are definitely parts of the United States where ignorance is celebrated and considered "cool." Thankfully there are avid readers among our schoolchildren that can give us hope that all is not lost, but let's be honest: the quality of education is eroding in the US, and protecting and improving it simply aren't the priorities of our legislators. Class sizes are burgeoning, private, for-profit interests have intruded, funding is tied to test scores, and teachers are being wrongly pilloried as the "new rich." Combine that with the attitude that being uneducated is acceptable, and in some regions, it really does appear that learning and the desire to be educated are on the decline. There are parts of this country where
Idiocracy, minus its sci-fi elements, is becoming uncomfortably close to being an accurate representation of everyday life.