Some of the most important statistics from the National Institute for Literacy, National Center for Adult Literacy, The Literacy Company, and U.S. Census Bureau underscore the critical need to address illiteracy in the United States:
As of 2019, 45 million Americans are functionally illiterate and cannot read above a fifth-grade level
50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth-grade level
57% of students failed the California Standards Test in English
1/3 of fourth-graders reach the proficient reading level
25% of students in California school systems are able to perform basic reading skills
85% of juvenile offenders have problems reading
3 out of 5 people in American prisons can’t read
3 out of 4 people on welfare can’t read
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The solution is obvious, text-only internet for children and you have to do math problems instead of captchas
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That's pretty close to how my parents tried to restrict my internet access in my early life, as you can see from me being a http://rdrama.net user it didn't have the effect they wanted.
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There's worse places to end up in life, you could be a reddit janny
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I unironically like this idea. No microblogging or politics though.
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That would create a form of autism so powerful the Earth would never recover
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We might actually see...
Factorio 2
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A separate internet for children sounds really good by the way
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Let’s bring back yahooligans
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