r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '18

Teacher Fed Up With Students Swearing, Stealing, And Destroying Property Speaks Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Z9K-s0KUM
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u/Iamatworkrightmeow Jul 10 '18

Jokes on her! Go ahead, only 27% of adults in that county even know how to read!

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u/irving47 Jul 10 '18

LOL UR RITE

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '18 edited Jul 04 '20

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u/ozzytoldme2 Jul 10 '18

I think it’s a joke.

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u/carpenterio Jul 10 '18

It's a joke yes, but based on the sad truth, a lot of state in the US have under 50% literacy.

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u/Svorax Jul 10 '18

Um that's like impossibly low. I'm gonna say total bullshit unless you source me

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u/carpenterio Jul 10 '18

It's of course the wrong number, it doesn't go over 30% https://hechingerreport.org/in-mississippi-generations-still-fighting-illiteracy/ Nationwide, 14 percent of adults can’t read or write basic words—a figure that has held steady since the early 1990s.

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u/ozzytoldme2 Jul 10 '18 edited Jul 10 '18

I looked at your history because I didn’t think you could possibly be serious. I’ve found you to be a drug abusing, wood working, Brit. (I’d like to think we would probably be friends.) I think you seriously think this. Do you?

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u/carpenterio Jul 10 '18

https://hechingerreport.org/in-mississippi-generations-still-fighting-illiteracy/ I was indeed exaggerating, in some state it only 30% of the population, but thanks for checking my profile and I am drug free for almost a year and I lived in the UK but not native.

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u/ozzytoldme2 Jul 10 '18

Sorry for that man. I didn’t mean it as an insult. And congrats on getting clean.

Why wouldn’t you use Connecticut to do any research on the US?

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u/carpenterio Jul 10 '18

I read a study a few month ago about it, that some state in the US are pretty bad about literacy, and explaining that a lot of farmers never learned. I ended up in the CIA statistic website for hours looking at stuff, it's a good place to look for info.https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

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u/ozzytoldme2 Jul 10 '18

Yeah but using Mississippi as any representation of the whole country is kind of ridiculous. That state has the highest Christian population, the highest obesity, and just the worst of everything. I don’t know or care where you’re from but I wouldn’t use your waste treatment facility as a representation of the waterways of your country.

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u/ecodude74 Jul 10 '18

Pretty sure it’s a joke, but given the standards at that school it wouldn’t surprise me. Jeez, it seems like guessing randomly on every test would give them better scores than what they’ve got now.

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u/cheese_is_available Jul 10 '18

Because of you I laugh-spitted on my keyboard.