Despite relatively high education rates, an analysis of international assessments by Statistics Canada in 2013 showed that more than one in six adult Canadians fell short of passing the most basic set of literacy tests.

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    3 hours ago

    “This sounds wrong so it must be a bad study, I won’t even bother checking” :(

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        Spoilers, Robert Maxwell fucked over Canadian schools too. I’m not sure why Canadians believe they’re so separate from the U.S., but you should probably re-examine that belief.

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          Do you think 50% of americans can’t fucking read well? Because if so you are fucking wrong.

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            Brother in 2023 54% of adults in the U.S. read below a 6th grade level and 64% of our fourth graders did not read proficiently.

            You need to take a step back, because the only one here who’s dead wrong is you.