• g8phcon2@k.fe.derate.me
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    10 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
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      10 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.ee
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        10 months ago

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