Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

• CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  6th grade is 11. Unless you have a weird birthday or got held back High School starts around 13-14 years. Maybe you started late? That benefits a lot of kids but most kids graduate highschool at 17/18 not 20.

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  • Metacortechs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t think so, I have a 9 year old who turns 10 in February in the 4th grade in the US.

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  • Chunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or I misremembered. Sometimes your fellow commenters on Lemmy make mistakes.

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    • CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Definitely happens.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, I was thinking it would be the same as the UK system.

  Even better then. I was reading Lord of the Rings by that age.

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  • Pipoca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looking up the lexile scores, LOTR is written at a 5th or 6th grade level. Same with most of the Harry Potter series.

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