Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Children suffered the worst long-term consequences of the lockdowns. “The State of Global Learning Poverty: 2022 Update,” found that an alarming 70% of middle and lower-class 10-year-olds across the globe cannot read. There is no greater freedom than knowledge, and reading comprehension is essential to our modern-day existence. “Only the richer segments of the population—those with broadband connectivity, access to devices for the use of each family member, a place to study, availability of books and learning material, and a conducive home environment, among other conditions—were able to maintain a reasonable level of education engagement,” the study cited. We are now in the midst of an education crisis where children have fallen perhaps too far behind to catch up with their peers.
Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia saw the most notable declines in learning as schools there completely closed and many did not have access to online education. Sadly, many of the organizations that pushed for the lockdowns and school closures, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, would like to step in to help re-educate these children. They will try to reshape an entire generation of vulnerable children as they see fit. “Fighting this learning crisis is the challenge of our times if we do not want to lose this generation of children and youth,” the report said.
“COVID-19 has devastated learning around the world, dramatically increasing the number of children living in Learning Poverty,” said Jaime Saavedra, Global Director for Education at the World Bank. “With 7 in 10 of today’s 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries now unable to read a simple text, political leaders and society must swiftly move to recover this generation’s future by ensuring learning recovery strategies and investments.” They are calling this phenomenon “learning poverty,” but the issue was not based on class. This drastic decline in reading comprehension is a direct result of lockdowns and school closures.
The report tries to claim that “learning poverty” was prevalent before the lockdown, but there is no denying that allowing children to miss 273 days of school in certain areas of the world caused this problem. The report says learning poverty violates children’s right to education, but the lockdowns and tyrannical crackdown on a largely unlethal virus harmed ALL children across the globe.
So now, children risk losing $21 trillion in lifetime earnings, equivalent to 17% of global GDP. Our model has been targeting 2030 for many years as a major turning point. Unsurprisingly, this report claims that if we follow the guidance of the same agencies who forced school closures, we can attain a newly indoctrinated, I mean educated, population by 2030.
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That’s fantastic; the next generation needs all the retards it can get.
My 15 year old nephew has that problem, not confined to 10 yo’s
And you tell us that …. why? That is a very sad situation.
Odds are great that their parents can barely read. Too.
70% has got to be bullshit.
Glock I think it’s probably higher. Remember, functionally illiterate is not considered the complete lack of the ability to read.
Being functionally illiterate means you cannot read and then comprehend what you read, cannot extrapolate more complex thoughts and ideas from the information, lack the ability to infer more information that what the text gives, and cannot detect when you are being conned.
Trust me, these kids can read twitter drops and Meta garbage.
What they cannot do is formulate their own written words as they lack an inner dialogue with themselves.
They do not read books, at least nothing beyond the complexity of a comic book or pamphlet.
They lack the ability to follow written directions beyond a few simple words and generally must have pictures to go along with it. Forget complex diagrams.
This is an easily controlled population, fed on a steady diet of garbage from social media. Whatever they are told they believe because they have no way to confirm or deny it, and even if they were handed the materials they absolutely would not know how to take it in and digest it with any degree of accuracy.
They cannot form a cogent argument based on factual data. Everything in their world is feelings. And being told all your feelings matter 100% of the time then to them those are facts.
The best gift I was ever given was a love of books. Real books by real authors.
Vonnegut. Thank you for calling out the shitbags with humor
Tolkien. Thank you for giving me hope
Simmons. Thank you for your brilliant math and belief in God
Koontz. Thank you for your belief in good conquering evil. And your love of dogs
Herbert. Thank you for your world building, your massive genius.
The classics were there for me too:
Hawthorne. I read the Scarlet Letter when I was 15 years old. Amazing.
RL Stevenson. Treasure Island, need I say more? Oh, and how sad is it that the top google search is the casino, not the literary treasure.
There are too many to list here, and if I didn’t switch to an e reader I am quite sure I would be buried alive in a ton of books.
You want to help kids? Any kids? Bring back the real books and writers. Just don’t tell anyone because I am quite sure we would have our own Fahrenheit 451 on our hands if we did.
Everything you stated is true… Even our grands don’t read much but we’re changing that. They’re to young for phones and mom restricts all computer and internet time so theres still plenty of time for them to develope reading skills.
BUT… My middle daughters, step daughter, is a twitter, tic toc, whetever junkie and yes… she’s a shallow, cries at the drop of a hat because someone hurt her feelings and disagreed with her. I’ve seen the same thing with other peoples children as well… all feelings, information and attention deficit future drones. Thank the public education indoctrination sites for this, supported by tax dollars.
Gotcha. I agree with that. I also missed the part where he said 70% around the globe.
Globally, and with no comparative baseline from pre plannedemic. It may have always been in the 60s for all we know. US only would be more revealing.
70%, that be unpossible.
So, before internet and Igizmos, no ten year olds could read. That is amazing.
If a ten year old can’t read, that is entirely on the parents. Entirely. My kids could read by the age of six. No internet and no igizmos. We used this thing called books. We read to them, first with alphabet books (A is for apple, etc,), then slowly, steadily, they read to us. Books. What amazing things.
These fucktards need to fucking wake the fucking fuck up. I don’t give a shit what else happens – if your kids can’t read it is almost always your fault.
Agreed 9000%. That means at least 70% of the parents are complete shit and don’t care about their kids.
Now that number is WAY HIGHER than that.
Agreed, LLpoh. My kids were reading by age 4. Along with reading to them all the time, my wife and I got them fun games on the computer such as Reader Rabbit and Math Rabbit. They worked like a charm to teach the basics.
How dare you criticize the parents? End sarc. People will use any excuse to blameshift.
All by design. They need the slaves to be stupid and complacent.
With the mental crisis we will see in this young generation as a result of the last 2 years, not reading properly is only part of the problem.
Not to worry, there will be wonderful pharmaceuticals to help them with their mental problems and by the time they die, they will no longer depend on them.
At first, I was going to call bullshit on that 70% figure.
On second thought, he said “across the globe”. Africa’s population is 1.2 billion. We all know the average IQ there …. so, 70% seems about right.
However, I strongly disagree that it was the result of Covid. I would bet Llpoh’s testicles that that situation existed well before Covid.
Bet my testicles? I sure hope you are right. I still need those occasionally.
Gotta scratch something in the morning.
There’s always your ass.
There is a silver lining – All of these 10 y-o can reach level 10 of any video game.
70% of the parents of these children are negligent.
You want to teach a child to read? Read to your child. Have books in your house. Read books. Take away their electronics.
Reading doesn’t require someone with a degree to teach, it requires modeling and good parenting.
Actually, a new study released showed that reading, like farming, is fraught with dangers and hazards, and should not be attempted by unqualified persons. The ones qualified to teach can be identified by their pronouns and should never contain the he/she designations. fify
I read that it leads to Covid outbreaks.
I would want to see the numbers from before the lockdown. I doubt they were much lower before.
Funny, online schooling helped my kids and they jumped ahead of their peers. They went back to public school to be around other kids.
My 4 years old daughter loves books. She could read quite some words now. I borrow books in big fonts and read them slowly and repeatedly. There is no internet and TV at home, but lots of books and organic food.
With no internet or other electronic devices and just 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from, my parents used flash cards,books from the library, books they purchased, and a strong commitment, to get me reading by 3 1/2. Conducive home environment is the ONLY thing that EVER MATTERS, and it has little to nothing to do with money. Believe or not, there are words on nearly everything. Want your child to learn how to read? DO IT!
13 ? !
3. And only 1 was ‘clear’. Was elated, to say the least, when it was advertised that Rollerball (original) would be on that network. Didn’t see an R rated movie until i was ‘legally’ old enough to drive. The sole exception being The Dirty Harry movies, with my father.
‘Regularly Scheduled Programming’? (sneaking suspicion that statement was one of the ONLY true statements heard)…
A billy graham special. i was ‘enraptured’. For sure. Another feather in my cap, ‘religion’ wise.
13 1/2 ? eye wuz deafanutly reeding bye then.
Just for good measure all the libraries should be closed, the books burned Fahrenheit 451 style and turned into LBGTQPIBN hostels or completely burned down because it would provide the opportunity to Build Back Better “edgeAkayshun” in the WEPH/NWO/Beast System sort of way.
Whatever else should happen, all the kiddies will still know about ALL of the Dizknee products, hip-hop scene, plus baseball, basketball and football team information. YAY!
They’re just trying to sell the grid and slave devices to the world. The coof proved it, thirld-worlders with no concept of germs or washing hands were wearing masks around.
The only gifts my daughter ever received from me were books. She received a $100 gift card to Barnes & Noble every Christmas and Birthday until she was 18 years of age. She doesn’t spend any time on Social Media and is still a voracious reader.