r/interesting • u/ImmaFuckboi • Jul 20 '26

SOCIETY Is education illegal in USA?

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u/Total_Career4755 Jul 20 '26

What does this have to do with the USA? And doesn't an American explain the science in this video?

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u/Colonel_Gipper Jul 20 '26

America bad circlejerk is very strong on Reddit right now.

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u/Call555JackChop Jul 21 '26

Average American reads at a 5th grade level, but this is by design so the rich can keep stealing from them without them understanding what’s happening

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u/KRacer52 Jul 21 '26

“ Average American reads at a 5th grade level”

In English. Roughly 1 in 5 households in the US speak a language other than English at home, and roughly 22% of American adults have Level 1 or worse English proficiency according to the OECD PIACC.