Who Teaches Your Kids English?

 Disappointing, but expected.

     We placed the 85 subjects from both universities into three categories of readers: problematic, competent, and proficient. A summary of our major conclusions gives some basic data for our ensuing discussion:

    * 58 percent (49 of 85 subjects) understood so little of the introduction to Bleak House that they would not be able to read the novel on their own.

    * 38 percent (or 32 of the 85 subjects) could understand more vocabulary and figures of speech than the problematic readers. These competent readers, however, could interpret only about half of the literal prose in the passage.

    * Only 5 percent (4 of the 85 subjects) had a detailed, literal understanding of the first paragraphs of Bleak House.  --Vox quoting Johns Hopkins study

Those 85 subjects are ENGLISH majors, mind you, and a number of them are enrolled in "ENGLISH education," meaning they will be teaching your children how to read............English.

And you're going to depend on them for your Social Security payments?