On November 20th, I was selected for jury duty. The trial in which I was a juror for, was a man charged with 8 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree.
I had never been on a jury before and had no idea what to expect.
He was an older man. Caught because he sent himself CP from his email to the same email. Duplicating it across multiple devices. When he sent it, the AOL server scanned and identified CP and then alerted the authorities.
When the police questioned him, he denied that anyone had lived with him during the time those photos were sent. Only after becoming the target of the investigation, did he change his story and claim someone lived with him.
In 1979, the percentage of people ages 14 and older who were illiterate, was less than one percent. Today, itβs upwards of 16%. And 19% of high school graduates in the US can't read.Β
This is what 45 years of government education has given us.
Stratified by race, only 1.6 percent of POC were illiterate. Now, 38.5% of Black or African American students are below or well below the early literacy benchmark.
And this is how your tax dollars are prioritized. Increased executive level bureaucrats. While teachers get the shaft.