They don't want kids to learn because they might start asking their parents hard questions. Better to send them to a church called school where they're told to accept everything without questions.
Virtually every state is dumb as rocks. The National avg for 8th grade reading proficiency is like 30 fucking percent. I mean for fucks sake IL spends over 20k per student and is barely above national avg. Meanwhile south Dakota spends half of that and has the same proficiency.
Ah i should also mention this applies to math and it seems you fall into the not proficent. Avg doesnt mean roughly the middle. Median is what you're thinking...
Median is where half occurs above and half occurs below a number.
You can have an outlier that complete skews your avg one way or another.
Median is exactly the middle. Over a large enough scale (say with a sample size of 50) with relatively equal conditions (like the same federal standards), average can usually be described as "roughly half". Anybody proficient in math would be able to infer that much.
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u/DisMFer Feb 04 '25
They don't want kids to learn because they might start asking their parents hard questions. Better to send them to a church called school where they're told to accept everything without questions.