(March 14, 2019 at 6:16 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: One of my relatives, a young man, shared my enthusiasm for the USN. He took the screening tests preliminary to enlisting a few days ago and got the results today. According to his scores he's functionally illiterate.
His parents homeschooled him and he passed all the tests the state requires for a high school diploma. I know the proctors, relatives of mine. I'm sure they didn't want to "embarrass" anyone by flunking him.
He let me know about all this while he was in transit to another relative in California. She's a school teacher there. We'll get the boy fixed up.
I know a guy who used to be a school principal in western Kansas.
When parents brought their home-schooled kids to rejoin the school system they invariably tested years behind their age groups, and then the parents invariably flipped out -- they couldn't believe they hadn't been superior.
More dumbing down.
