From https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/14phpbq/how_is_it_possible_that_roughly_50_of_americans/

Question above is pretty blunt but was doing a study for a college course and came across that stat. How is that possible? My high school sucked but I was well equipped even with that sub standard level of education for college. Obviously income is a thing but to think 1 out of 5 American adults is categorized as illiterate is…astounding. Now poor media literacy I get, but not this. Edit: this was from a department of education report from 2022. Just incase people are curious where that comes from. It does also specify as literate in English so maybe not as grim as I thought.

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    My wife is a teacher. She had a student that would do no work in class, or even detention after.

    Suddenly would have a college level writing skill at home.

    Kid could not replicate or even summarize what was in his essays at school.

    When the parent was contacted and was asked why the kid performs so poorly at school and suddenly the vocabulary and sentence structure is amazing at home is because my wife sucks and should “do better”

    Admin would not confront or address the issue.

    It happened 3+ times with the same student last year. This is at one of the better schools in the state.