One in three Australian adults suffers with low literacy skills | Sky News Australia

More than one in three Australian adults has literacy skills so low they are vulnerable to unemployment and social exclusion, according to new figures. The problem stems from students falling through the cracks at school, with one in seven failing to reach baseline literacy standards by age 15.

Terri Martin from Dymocks Children’s Charities says adults often succumb to literacy problems if they do not have access to good quality books when they are young. She says ‘you don’t actually have to go far from inner city areas to find children with literacy challenges, so there’s a widespread problem’. By providing brand new books to children and schools across the country, she says Dymocks Kids Charities is trying to reduce those statistics.

dccaustralia We still have local libraries do we not and free.

dccaustralia What happened to the books? They used to be in abundance. Have the virtue signalling functionally illiterate leftie progressives masquerading as teachers burnt them?

dccaustralia Its not just about knowing how to read. I knew a young reader who had no idea how to comprehend.

dccaustralia Is English still taught in schools?🙄🙄

dccaustralia Once parents actually spent time with their kids and read books with and to them. Appears to gone out the window

dccaustralia I will suggest a crazy thing - stop brainwashing kids with gender fuild bullshit and start teaching them how to read. I know a 8 year old kid who doesn't even know how to read and she goes to school every day. 😒

dccaustralia Give em electronic readers & cease trying to make parents shell out money to grubby censorious book sellers.

dccaustralia Much of the material taught in the English curriculum's about minority issues, virtue seeking stories, slavery, what its like to be abused by whites, anti church, feminist diatribes laced with left wing progressive ideals. Thankfully, Orwell, Goldman & other classics are taught.

dccaustralia Here’s a crazy idea 💡Use all the time and money wasted on gender fluidity lessons and aboriginal awareness lessons on books and reading!!

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