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Written by: onewheeldave

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Written by: ...Lightning...

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1) Read

2) Demonstrate a basic understanding of the American political system.

3) Have an understanding of basic science (i.e. why viruses can't be treated with antibiotics, or why mixing bleach and ammonia is a bad idea).

4) Do addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, basic tric, and have an understanding of basic statistics (the latter being

conspicuously absent in american high school curricula).

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I find this mildy offensive as a person who has struggled in a inflexible public school system to accomplish item 1 and 4.



I can now read fairly well and enjoy doing so. Although I never figured out untill grade 5 what was going wrong with my attempts to read and I figured it out largely independently of the school system (I pretty much accepted it as fact I would never be able to read and completly withdrew from their help)



I still can't do the things in item 4, despite the fact I obtained the required maths credits (2 academic high school level maths credits)



so, if you lived in america am I on your list? Because you pay taxes and expect me to do these things?



Home schooling would have helped me tremeoundly. Hell the only reason I know a lot of the academic things I do is because of my mother.



Oh yeah my hand writeing is extreamly difficult to read unless I spend a great deal of time/effort. so is my cursive.
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