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ECP NetHappenings Kurt Vonnegut 2006 advice to students

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

228 E 48 NYC 10017 212-688-2682 November 5, 2006
Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely,
Batten, Maurer and Conglusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a
really old geezer (84) In his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice
any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s Inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your
lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give It to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you
if you don’t do It: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed, No fair
tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell
anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even
your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely
separated trash receptacles. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!
Kurt Vonnegut

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ECP NetHappenings Over 50% of U.S. adults read below a 6th-grade level

AMERICAN ADULT LITERACY

TAGS: #adult functually illiterate, #reading, #literacy instruction, #Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) #CCC

Over 50% of U.S. adults read below a 6th-grade level,
with roughly 130 million people having low literacy skills.
The average American adult reads at a 7th- to 8th-grade
level, while 21% are functionally illiterate, struggling with
basic, multi-step, or complex tasks. Literacy has declined
since 2019.
National Literacy In… +5
• Low Literacy Statistics: Approximately 45 million
adults in the U.S. read below a 5th-grade level.
• Adult Literacy Levels: In 2023, 28% of adults scored
at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3
or above, according to Wikipedia.
• Declining Trends: The number of adults with the
lowest literacy levels increased by 9 percentage points
between 2017 and 2023.
• Academic Impact: Only 32% of fourth-grade students
performed at or above the NAEP Proficient level in
reading in 2022, as shown on The Nation’s Report Card
(•gov).
• Economic Impact: The low literacy “silent crisis” costs
the U.S. economy an estimated $2 trillion annually.

(1933-1942) |FINANCIAL LITERACY| The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps were in operation.

In fact the CCC did a better job with literacy than the Department of Education which should have shut them down in 1945. People realized their gov’t jobs were in jeopardy so the department of education mounted a campaign to kill off the CCC and they did. Sadly for America they won the battle – we still have the incompetent department of noneducation.