If I had to guess, it’s partially due to the inability or unwillingness of schools to fail a student, rather, they just simply pass them on to the next grade level. Also, I’m not going to blame it. 100% on the students. From the videos I’ve seen, some of the teachers probably shouldn’t be teaching as well as they seem to be spending more time complaining about things than actually teaching basics like reading and writing.
The good teachers are leaving and the schools are only able to hire the bottom of the barrel.
They can’t teach the basics and there in lies the problem. The higher ups make them teach this crap. If they could just teach the basics they would.
Even one teacher in this video said she wish she could start her own school. Why can’t she? Marva Collins did it back in the 1970s. Marva’s school was a gamble but it paid off.