[JZelle]

Sliding? Child please!

[Salman]

Sliding? It is being deliberately perpetrated by the people who run the schools. To create the kind of subject population the Democrats want.

[Texas Eagle]

Hopefully Trump will tackle this issue before he leaves office. Tax breaks for homeschooling and private schooling.

[Jonty30]

Act of war by Democrats to bring an end to the US.

[Angelino97]

The elite are getting smarter. Tech oligarchs keep their kids away from cell phone addiction.

The lower classes, and much of the middle class, are being dummied down. Easier to control.

[zeestephen]

Please keep in mind that the Census Bureau now conceals current on going national ethnic research (conducted in 2022 and 2024).

The most recent data I can find at the Census Bureau website is the 2020 Census.

From memory...

Close to 45% of USA public school students are Black, Hispanic, Immigrant, or first generation native born Americans.

[Frank Drebin]

Only the stupid parts.

[dfwgator]

"... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"

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[SamAdams76]

This is the strategy. Fail to educate our younger generations so we can call them ignorant.

[Navy Patriot]

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

What the Prog Marxist, Woke, DEI Democrat Traitors want, the Prog Marxist, Woke, DEI Democrat Traitors get.

[Openurmind]

AI is going to kick this problem into overdrive towards that cliff...

[T.B. Yoits]

The first step in solving the problem is correctly identifying it.

The problem is not illiteracy (being unable to read or write) but anti-literacy (being unwilling to read or write).

In their defense, who would want to read the garbage they're being intentionally fed? Back in the day, writers could write. Now, too many are propagandists at best and can't write worth a damn anyway.

[Captain Walker]

A must-read on this subject is, Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.

The United States is a country that is willfully illiterate. (It's not that Americans can't read; it's that they won't.)

[metmom]

Not sliding.

Falling off a cliff like lemmings.

[sauropod]

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[huldah1776]

Probably technology, not learning to think critically and most importantly, how is reading taught these days?

try the Raising Robust Readers program. I learned phonetically in the early ‘60s, but this makes soooo much sense!

“Take children beyond the alphabet to the world of phonograms. Phonograms show the 72 sounds in [ALL] the words we read. They may have 1 letter (the alphabet) or 2. 3 or 4 letter combinations; but only make one sound. Our multi-sensory songs, gestures and play-filled activities make them easy to learn and fun to teach.”

https://raisingrobustreaders.com/about-our-phonics-program/

[Albion Wilde]

At the start of the century, American students registered steady improvement in math and reading. Around 2013, this progress began to stall out, and then to backslide dramatically. What exactly went wrong?

Commie Core, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pushing it all over the place.

[CodeToad]

Sliding? Done slid!