Ex-NHL Coach admits that he's illiterate!

[BeBMan]

You forget that this is the OT. We usually don't read OPs here.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Asher
How can you get past the fourth grade, even, without knowing how to read?

Can you drop out of school at pre-school in Quebec?

Are you saying there are no people who can't read in Alberta? Oil sure has some interesting side effects, doesn' it?

Yep.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Well, the good part is we don't have to worry about him reading these posts and feeling bad.

[SlowwHand]

First, I fail to see the humor.
He did become successful in spite of this. No easy task.
Mere functioning would be laudable.

Second, and here I'll share in the humor, it was in a sport where a "goon" is recognized as a part of the sport.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Richelieu
Are you saying there are no people who can't read in Alberta? Oil sure has some interesting side effects, doesn' it?

Yep.

You can't honestly be using that site as a reference...

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
Well, the good part is we don't have to worry about him reading these posts and feeling bad.

Are you kidding, he'll have them read to him!

My wish list (age 7)

1. Get own thread on 'poly
2. Win Stanley Cup
3. Work out how I can write a list but not read it

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Asher

You can't honestly be using that site as a reference...

Just to make it interesting i will say yes. Now you have to prove that their numbers are wrong.

But i will admit that you're probably right. The site must have been created by Ontarians to piss Albertans off.

[Asher]

Richelieu, how about some real references?

http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/89-573-XIE/89-573-XIE.pdf

Percentage of population 15 or older with less than 9 years of schooling (1996):

Alberta (English native tongue): 4.6%
Alberta (French native tongue): 12.2%

Quebec (English native tongue): 10.9%
Quebec (French native tongue): 18.5%

For whatever reason, French people aren't very academic and/or bright.

It goes on to discuss literacy in a detailed manner. Excerpt:

If we now look at the results according to the main linguistic groups that interest
us here, we can see from Table 4 that the disparities are substantial. Thus, on the prose
scale, three times as many Anglophones (27%) as Francophones (9%) in Canada as a
whole are at the highest skill level, while twice as many Francophones (25%) as
Anglophones (13%) are at the first level

For Quebec, considering the smallness of the Anglophone sample, it is necessary
to rely on the results of the 1989 survey. In that survey, it was found (Table 5) that
Anglophones in that province also did better in the tests of reading and numeracy skills
than Francophones. While, as noted above, the 1994 survey was more thorough than the
1989 survey for purposes of assessing individuals’ literacy skill levels, the 1989 survey
provides a similar overall picture. Whereas in 1994 the gap between Anglophones and
Francophones in Canada on the prose scale (levels 3 to 5 combined) was 14 percentage
points, the gap was 13 points in 1989 for level 4 on the reading scale, as well as on the
numeracy scale.

[duke o' york]

Maybe they're so bright that they don't have to spend as long at school as the Anglophones to learn the same stuff.

DanSed! By Asher! The shame.

[Asher]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Maybe they're so bright that they don't have to spend as long at school as the Anglophones to learn the same stuff.

That would be contradicted by the huge disparity in Francophone and Anglophone literacy.

[Ninot]

Stanley Cups won by Jacque Demers: 1

Stanley Cups won by Don Cherry: 0

[Asher]

Fans of Jacque Demer: 10
Fans of Don Cherry: 30 million

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Asher
Fans of Jacque Demer: 10
Fans of Don Cherry: 30 million

Yeah, sure.

Keep dreaming.

[Asher]

The man's handicap is reading and writing. That's boring.

Cherry's handicap is his fashion taste. It's awesome.

Plus, Cherry isn't a sissy French guy.

[Ninot]

again...

Cups won by Don Cherry, Zero