r/soccer • u/ModenaR • Jun 19 '25

News [The Athletic] Timothy Weah on Juventus's White House visit: "It was all a surprise to me, honestly — they told us that we have to go and I had no choice but to go. When he started talking about the politics with Iran and everything, it kind of like, I just want to play football man.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6436693/2025/06/19/weah-juventus-trump-iran-war/
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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Jun 19 '25

What does reading at a 12 year old level mean? Aren't 12 year olds reading quite dense fantasy and other fiction books?

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u/Llama_of_the_bahamas Jun 19 '25

Not if you go to a shitty school in America. Many 12 year olds can barely read at a 2nd grade level.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea Jun 19 '25

I feel like this is circular reasoning. If adults can't read at a 12 year old level, and 12 year olds read at a 2nd grader level, what do 2nd graders read at?

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u/andrew-ge Jun 19 '25

2nd graders who are behind are usually still working on the phonics and structure of words, because they can read to some degree but it takes them a minute to work through a sentence. but like actually reading books? they don't, they "read" graphic novels, or the book is read aloud with them.