Stats Blog
After reading the stattistics on literacy, I found it interesting in the Children’s statistics that “62% of partents with a high socioeconomic status read to their children every day, compared to 35% percent of parents with a low socioeconomic status.” I remember in elementary school being in a class with about 5 or 6 students who would economically be labled as “rich”, or well off. These group of students were always talking about how they were read this book, and knew this story.
The health and literacy results shocked me quite a bit. I guess I found it hard to beleive that lower literacy levels affects a person’s ability to take care of them self. I found this sad knowing that the 31% that they allude to in the statistics are usually people who don’t have opportunity vs people who lacked the ambition to learn reading (Product of Their Enviornment).
