If kids are reading what is on the internet, then they can READ.

Is the question reading or comprehension?

At what level of reading sufficient for an adult?

Is the issue reading out loud?

Is it spelling?

I remember elementary English class grading was based on comprehension and spelling.

Pronunciation wasn't part of the grade.

I do remember highschool and kids never wanting to read out loud because they couldn't pronunciate or they couldn't read a sentence without messing it up with the next sentence.

A lot of adults can't read a simple passage out loud.

Nervousness and public speaking can be attributed to poor reading and speaking.

So glad I did Toastmasters over the years.

How about Germany?

Context on Ectopic Pregnancy and Data in Germany Official Statistics: Germany's overall maternal mortality ratio remains low and relatively stable (around 3.4 to 4.2 deaths per 100,000 live births).

Per Publica

National Increase: Rates rose to 9.8 deaths per 1 million live births nationwide between 2023 and 2025

Germany says it's low. 3.4 to 4.2 per 100,000

US says its high. 9.8 per 1 million.

Have fun working those numbers.

Here's more data from Germany

"Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. "

"University of Liverpool researchers have identified that hospital admissions in England for ectopic pregnancy (when a fertilised egg implants outside the womb) have been increasing since 2021, with more than twice as many admissions of women from most deprived areas than the least deprived areas."

Doubled.

More than twice as many.

How did abortion bans in the US cause double the number while twice as many in England that has more abortion rights.

Google a worldwide search. It's increasing worldwide.

Trump and the GOP really hate women throughout the world. Abortion bans in the US has far reaching effects.

Um, unless kids are watching and not reading while on their devices, what is the reading problem?

Perhaps the topic is wrong.

Is it kids can't read or is it the kids can't answer questions about what they read?

If they can't read, media must be a watching tool, not reading tool.

If they can read,then we need to see the tests and determine the real issue: comprehension?

Honestly, I hated multiple choice tests on reading comprehension. I could explain everything I read, but questions sometimes were more confusing.

I'd rather have a teacher ask the question,I would answer or ask to clarify their question, and give an answer.

Those multiple choices sometimes were hooked on a specific answer yet multiple choices were just as correct as the next.

Darn,missed one more.

Epstein and Maxwell. That's it. The pimp and the hooker went to jail.

NOBODY ELSE THAT MATTERED.

Pedo Repubs and Pedo Dems.

But but but,the filed were sealed! There wasn't enough evidence!
Two people did it all and nobody else.

Two party complicity.

Can't define rich.
Can't define a living wage.
Can't define what minimum wage should be.

Deficits. Your party spends more than our party. That means your party doesn't care about debt. Our party cares more because we add less debt than you.

The USS Lincoln has bad conditions. The cruise ship isn't offering all the amenities. Damn, the rest of the convoy has it good.

The US has 900+ foreign military bases.
US law demands the US have 60,000+ troops in Europe! WWII ended in 1945.

Afghanistan: the US took too long to withdraw. Really? How long is too long?

If the US recognized the ICC, both parties would have members arrested for Crimes against Humanity.

Close the borders, scorch earth the military bases, and bring everything and everyone home to the borders.

America first: education, health, housing, jobs.

Kill the trade deficits.

Both parties suck.

Where's the bitching from the rest of the convoy? It's the Navy, not the Y

Got links?
Lots of assertions, no links ...
#22 | Posted by LampLighter

Got links to the sailors, being publicly made, by those sailors?

Lots of families batching. Where's the links to their letters detailing all the things they are complaining about.

Where's the proof of the conditions?

Did they think the military is a comfort zone like a living room?

From a family of war vets, they crying children, not soldiers.

Soldiers go through their chain of command, not mommy.

No mention of the other ships in the convoy. Carriers don't go out alone.

Talk to anyone in the Navy. The carrier made the news, but the complaints are typical non-military crap.

Most vets call these complainers exactly that. Suck it up.
The other ship crews are laughing at the weak sailors on that carrier.

Someone said recently, carriers make the news. Now listen to the support ships. They're embarrassed of them.

If it was wartime, the fleet doesn't sit still, it doesn't lounge in ports, and their movements are always sealed.

Right up there with,let's just print money and pay off the debt.

Or better yet, let's all stop working, make everything free, and just take it from the rich.

#1 from Axios

Part of the platform

Rewrite the mandate of the state intelligence service that investigated the party.

Allow homeschooling, give the government greater control over which textbooks schools can use and end its public broadcasting agreement with neighboring states.

Create a deportation task force.

Require state-funded organizations to demonstrate a "patriotic basic attitude."

Fertility?

Fertility affects getting a girl pregnant.

So, not getting a girl pregnant will not increase birth rates.

Oddly, abortion doesn't help either.

Every President since the ICC would face Crimes against Humanity of only the US recognized the court.

It will continue unabated because neither party will declare war. It's easier to let the Executive act first and get blamed later.

Complicit.

Every President, quite a few judges, and many in Congress should have faced expulsion, impeachment, and removal.

The power to do so has always existed.

If the US recognized the ICC, that court would act faster than the elected acting.

The lesser evil is evil.

Outlaw the one lever.

Take the party name off the ballot.

Force voters to know who they vote for.

If everyone consistently voted for the less bad option, the country would rapidly become less bad.

#28 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

And that's pathetic.

The husband wastes 2 billion dollars.
The wife wastes 1 billion dollars.

The lover of both these wasteful fools wouldn't waste like either.

SCREW the correct choice! We want the lesser of two evils because our evil is not as evil as yours.

Those two ladies wanting to play in the WNBA should get a chance to tryout.

Many would pay just to watch the tryouts.

All these transphobic idiots need to let these ladies pursue the dream. How dare they ask for 'proof' of their personal choice

0% of judges believe he can run for President again.

Polls may matter to politicians, but Trump is arguably not a politician in the traditional sense.

MY daughter is 19.5 years old. In 1.5 years, she will no longer be allowed to reside in Germany."

Sounds like she has some paperwork to renew in the next eighteen months.

#56 | Posted by snoofy

Why should she get her paperwork done? It shouldn't be necessary.

Why can't she just stay if she's done nothing wrong and just wants to live where she is.

What should be the consequences if she doesn't comply.

This country will collapse because morons like you still say BOTH SIDES when one side is vastly worse on nearly every issue.

#14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

One party cheats more than the other.
One party creates more debt than the other.
One party commits more crime than the other.
One party is worse than the other.

Both cheat, create debt, commits crime, etc.
One is better at it than the other.
Ignore the one that does all those horrible things because, well, they just don't screw you as much.

Worse on ever issue. But the one they're better at being worse is BAD.

Yup, single lever voters.

"Third party votes are wasted," say both parties.

Third party voters, "Are you one lever voters this stupid?"

See Also: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, which Republicans wouldn't sign to save their own life.

#40 | Posted by snoofy

At the time of the Declaration's adoption by the General Assembly in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt said, "In giving our approval to the declaration today, it is of primary importance that we keep clearly in mind the basic character of the document. It is not a treaty; it is not an international agreement. It is not and does not purport to be a statement of law or of legal obligation. It is a declaration of basic principles of human rights and freedoms, to be stamped with the approval of the General Assembly by formal vote of its members, and to serve as a common standard of achievement for all peoples of all nations."

Why the hell isn't it a treaty, a binding agreement, or law?

1948-2026.

Any administration could have made it to permanent.

Why sign off on a worthless, unenforceable document? Symbolic gestures don't prevent atrocities.

Make it a treaty and let's see how many nations sign off on it.

Most likely, it'll be just like the ICC.

Easy to play defense when the US has 80,000 to 100,000 troops in Europe.

WWII ended in 45.

Time to leave Europe.

Congress though we were in Afghanistan long enough.