This young woman is not functionally illiterate, she is totally illiterate. She went through the Hartford, Connecticut school system, and somehow, is enrolled at the University of Connecticut.

Near the end of the story, predictably, CNN points to money, possible racism, and the President’s effort to defund the Department of Education, but ultimately the fault appears to lie in a failed education system and the girl.

Idiots. Funding isn't an issue. Period.

How did she get through 12 - TWELVE - years of schooling like this? Pass the SAT/ACT/whatever. Submit an application to UConn (who filled out her app for her)? If she has parents, how could the parents not know.

Fucking nothing to do w/ funding, especially if the 500 other students in her class can read/write. She failed - why didn't she raise this with her teachers that she can't read/write? Her teachers failed - how could they not have known? The school failed - how could they continue to pass her? Her parents failed (assuming she has a guardian) - how could they not have known?

Funding isn't the problem. Fucking CNN. Fucking liberals.

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How did she get through 12 - TWELVE - years of schooling like this? Pass the SAT/ACT/whatever. Submit an application to UConn (who filled out her app for her)? If she has parents, how could the parents not know.

That part is answered in the video, she uses technology to read and type for her. Obviously, that doesn’t address her grade school years, but she explains that teachers would just tell her to draw pictures or nap in grade school.

Abraham Lincoln taught himself by candlelight after work…..for free.

Like others of her ilk, she expects everything in life to be handed to her on a silver platter. She's 'special', ya know?

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Originally posted by konata88:
Idiots. Funding isn't an issue. Period.

Fucking nothing to do w/ funding, especially if the 500 other students in her class can read/write. She failed - why didn't she raise this with her teachers that she can't read/write? Her teachers failed - how could they not have known? The school failed - how could they continue to pass her? Her parents failed (assuming she has a guardian) - how could they not have known?

Funding isn't the problem. Fucking CNN. Fucking liberals.

Money is what they thrive not education.

Hell NO, money is not the answer.
I started school in Iowa in a one-room schoolhouse, one teacher, three grades with 5-10 people per grade and even a outdoor outhouse toilet.
No big deal - we were fine albeit they built a school and I was modernized by the third grade.
It was the 1960's grade school.
We learned just fine.

The cry for money goes deaf on my ears.

If the policies established by the Department of Education allow an illiterate individual to be accepted into college, then the administration, which possesses the authority to withdraw funding from the Department of Education, has a responsibility to take such action.

President Trump has superpowers. His defunding of the DOE can go back in time and make this girl illiterate during the Obama administration.


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...and the President’s effort to defund the Department of Education.

DoE obviously wasn't doing much.

Wouldn't this be another reason to get rid of them?

Before I watch the video, let's see, 54% admittance rate, 50% of admitted score between 1,210 and 1,420 on the SAT and an ave. GPA of 3.7 on a 4.0 scale. She's not on the football team. Oh I see, UConn is test optional until 2026.

Now I'll watch the video.

Ah, she used text to speech and speech to text programs in her computer and phone instead of reading and writing. Easy to fill out the common app for college then. Probably first Gen college student, college essay that speaks to difficulties overcome growing up in Puerto Ricco, moving to Connecticut with hopes of making a better life and really wanting to make a difference for people like her when she leaves college.

Easy to see how she got in. I hope she uses her time there to take responsibility for her education and does well. The lawsuit indicates otherwise.

Honestly, she's obviously capable, so none of the issues the video mentions would have made a difference. It's not the school, it's not money, it's not the government, rather it's the family. Classic you can lead a horse to water but can't make'm drink story.

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Originally posted by TMats:
That part is answered in the video, she uses technology to read and type for her. Obviously, that doesn’t address her grade school years, but she explains that teachers would just tell her to draw pictures or nap in grade school.

Got it. Still, in my experience, the speech recognition technology is still insufficient w/o proof reading and corrections. Her illiteracy should have been detected by the school system. And that still leaves friends, family, etc.

Bottom line: she failed herself. As did her family, friends and the system. But it all started with her. She knew she was illiterate. She should have sought help. To blame others and not hold oneself accountable is so leftist.

I did not watch the video, so keep that in mind. All fifty states have special education programs mandated by the Feds to test kids who are having academic problems. Some states like Wisconsin have a school psychologist in every school that evaluates kids for learning disabilites or special education. I would bet that the story did not cover that aspect.

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So UConn accepts UCant

I've heard some universities don't rely on SAT's or GPA's but rather "lived experiences".

My mom had both my sister and myself reading before we went into 1st grade. My wife had my son and daughter reading and doing simple addition / subtraction by first grade. I'm not quite sure what was going on with this girls parents but if she can't read by 3rd grade where were they?

Mom doesn't speak English well. I bet, mom is at best functionally illiterate in Spanish.

I drive a school bus. In our district we have schools that have ELL ( English Language Learners ) and students get transported to different schools ( from their home school ) to one of the different ELL or ESL ( English Second Language ) schools.

I know for a fact that a lot of these kids come from homes that don't speak English, mostly Spanish, but we have other non English speakers. But a lot of the Spanish only speaker family's mom and/or dad are illiterate or functionally illiterate in their own language.

The non Spanish, non English speakers are mostly literate in their home language.

That's from years of letting anyone come into this country.

She failed herself, her parents failed her, the school system failed her.

This is a shinning example of why we need school choice ( if the school your in isn't working, then choose another ) and why the Department of Education is worthless. Their failures breed the corruption of not looking out for the students best interests, but their own best interest.

Back in the day, you were held back, if you were a Discipline problem you were expelled. Not anymore. The students are passed along whether they can read or write, and no matter how disruptive, they stay in the classroom disturbing others from learning, and taking up the teachers time trying to get them under control.

**** side note- personal point of privilege ****

As a school bus driver, I have had problem students that get escorted out of the school by two or three adults, and put on the bus, because they can't control them. But I'm expected, by myself to, while operating a 40' long 36,000+ pound school bus with 45+ students, up to 90. Yes 90, safely.

Everything about the school system if messed up from the Feds, State, and local.

ARman

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So UConn accepts UCant

Might as well change the name to UCon.

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This is a shinning example of why we need school choice ( if the school your in isn't working, then choose another ) and why the Department of Education is worthless. Their failures breed the corruption of not looking out for the students best interests, but their own best interest.

Don't forget the F'in unions.

The bottom line is that the school system in Connecticut, and perhaps many others, is thoroughly corrupted by the Woke B.S. Her teachers were probably too afraid for their jobs to grade her honestly. And if push had come to shove, no doubt, the teachers' union would have defended teachers who refused to do the "right thing". Makes me wonder how many more such cases there are in universities across the U.S. A very sad commentary on the state of public education in some parts of the U.S.

When I went to school in the snow and hail and rain on my own two feet, we used to do things on the chalk board. Solve math problems, make lists, etc. Maybe white boards today? Or nothing at all? What a shame.

If there is board work, how did she escape it. I find it very difficult to believe that no teacher was unaware she had issues. What about driver's license? I guess anime with subtitles are out. Or Kdrama. What a sad person she is, not wanting to be literate. Live in a country that offers any opportunity, and she wastes it.