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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any idea how other countries are doing literacy wise and as readers? When I went to Seoul, Korea this year, phones were ubiquitous and even younger kids had them. Would like to know how East Asian countries and Western European kids are doing. Don’t they use screens in school?[/quote]

no but[b] asian societies never pushed reading[/b]/liberal arts etc... it was easier to compete on a global scale when you had distinctly measurable skills like hard sciene or math or business.  Its pathetic how english teachers pander to kids now.  My 9th grader has read 2 books - teh importance of being earnest and Things fall apart this whole school year! they've been reading things fall apart since October... its such a short book! [/quote]

Lol what the heck does this mean. Have you ever been inside an asian school - do you think most are uneducated in their native language?
Or are you simply judging based on the fact that many asian immigrants major in STEM (pls google the reason for this, it's not because asian societies undervalue language proficiency/verbal aptitude)[/quote]

I’d be willing to get that the typical Korean or Chinese student would score higher on an English grammar exam than an American kid. [/quote]

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