This is truly concerning seeing this happen first hand. I learned today that there are viewers that come to my stream who can't read or write. Society is failing us.

It was never about protection. It's all about control.

54% of Americans cannot read at a 6th grade level, if you are able to fully comprehend this comment in its entirety along with every word I'm using with minimal hesitation, you are not part of the majority.

Some schools just "socially" advance kids to the next grade, including those who fail or barely show up. Some districts now have to bribe students just to attend. The bar is on the floor unfortunately.

It is unfortunate, but yes. and the schools are just churning them out, because 'easier to push them than hold them back and risk funding loss from poor performance.

Yes, you can thank No Child Left Behind + all these iPad kids. NCLB meant kids that weren't doing well were advanced a grade instead of being held back until they improve. The iPad is bad for learning b/c it doesn't form the neural pathways like writing does.

I'm sorry, but it's actually true. The bar has been lowered so much, somehow people are graduating high school without knowing how to read or write. We need the aliens to come and help. Please!!

Been getting a lot of mileage out of this story recently. And, if you’re willing to look into the stats further, certain demographics are more suspect to fail.

Crossing my fingers that's just someone learning English

My niece is 8 years old and had a tablet when she was a toddler. THANKFULLY my sister wasn't like most parents and got her into reading, physical copies by the way. Geez, how bad has it gotten with kids nowadays that reading and writing is so piss poor?

Too many low IQ and low EQ parents in this world, Miia 😔

The school system. has failed society.

Kids these days. They even try swiping pages from books with their finger like they would on an iPad

The American department of education was a money launderying scam.

Truly. I just need to open Twitter ans I get assaulted by the illiterate like its a riot, its insane!

Wait really?

yep this is how it is now, i mean i can right but they never taught me to improve my writing skills or how to write cursive

It's pretty sad when these same "modern kids" don't even know how to use a computer since they are glued to their phones/tablets all the time.

My son is 4 and is learning how to read. He really shows an effort in learning how to read. Also his primary school also really encourages learning to read. On another note me and my wife also love reading books and light novels we don't really like reading manga because we prefer to use our imagination.

Thats awesome! Your kid will definitely have a bright future ♥

I was homeschooled and became a peer tutor in college. It was there I learned I was vastly ahead of my peers in regards to literacy.

I have a solution. GO BACK TO SCHOOL! Parents really failed kids by letting them have mobile devices.

Goes to show why no child left behind is a mistake & the education system needs to be reformed from scratch

This is the fault of no child left behind. Such a shitty policy that even I thought was wrong when I was in Middle school

It gets even worse as we keep lowering the requirements to pass school. There are SOOOOOO many kids graduating from school who can barely read, write, or do basic math

it's only going to get worse too, reading will always be needed but hand writing will become a lost art eventually.

that really sucks... hopefully they are looking to figure out how to read atleast. that has to be so debilitating....

Currently some school administrations have lowered the bar so badly that it's becoming more common

I missed this part of stream. What? How are things this bad?

Wait... Seriously? Is that actually the case?

sadly yes, there was recently a video that went viral of a teacher (I forget the grade but I think he was teaching High School Seniors) actually crying because a lot of his students couldn't read. Turns out that "No Child Left Behind" policies mean that everyone else gets stuck at the start line.

When the results of the propaganda show

I saw a post a little bit ago that showed that teachers were discouraging kids from sounding out words, instead telling them that if they don't recognize a word they should just guess what the word might be.

Welcome to the aftermath of "no kid left behind" mentality for schools We didn't try to help them keep up, we made the mistake of lowering the bar onto the ground.........and they still hitting their head on it and going under it

Tiktok was a mistake

There was at least one high profile case of this that hit the news