• g8phcon2@k.fe.derate.me
    151·
    11 months ago

    It’s not just America. I heard on Public Radio that practically every country in the world has scored worse on reading tests since 2020. I think Japan was the one excpetion.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
      11·
      11 months ago

      Of fucking course the country with the most convoluted writing system ever devised by men is the one that’s able to maintain literacy scores lol

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        It’s not at all that complicated. I’ll take kanji strokes over spelling any day. (I passed ikyuu a decade ago.)