• weremacaque@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    That’s still really bad. If 2/3 of illiterate people were born in America, that really highlights how inconsistent education is in America.

    When I was a kid, I lived in a regular suburban neighborhood but the middle school and high schools that I was zoned for were so awful that my parents enrolled me into a charter school. (The elementary school was fine) Since then, some of the crappy schools in my city are now magnet schools and so my parents’ house appears to be zoned to different schools. There appears to be less public schools now. That’s probably not a good thing.