[algore]

the original article is unreadable, I tried to excerpt it in a way that made sense.

Why can't Shaqu'ra or Johnny read?

[odawg]

“Recent years have seen successive waves of book bans in Republican-controlled states...”

As far as anyone needs to read on this stupidity.

I have seen what students are forced to read in school today. It is dreadful, they way they are taught is dreadful, and the result is students recoil from reading.

[Gaffer]

I have been teaching in small liberal arts colleges for over 15 years now, and in the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch

Yes. The 'switch' was you. When you first allowed mush brains to create words like 'conversated' and 'commentated' to sound educated. You should have immediately corrected them - converse and commented. But you didn't. You didn't because you didn't want to hurt their little psyches.

[Mathews]

Stopped reading a half-dozen words into the first sentence.

[Angelino97]

current cohort of professors, who are by and large more invested in their students’ success and mental health.

Why are they "invested" (whatever that means) in their students' mental health?

I'm so sick of everyone always blathering about their "mental health." People don't show up to work because "My mental health requires that I take a rest." And when they commit mistakes or even crimes, they blame it on their "mental health" and seek sympathy for their wrong-doing.

Whatever happened to "Feeling depressed? Well, suck it up and tough it out."

[rbg81]

I’m convinced most K-12 schools don’t teach real subjects anymore. It’s all about behavior management and self esteem. You get a B for simply showing up.

That being said, the author felt compelled to start the article off bashing conservatives. Only toward the end does he concede that cultural factors may be playing a role.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Because they are being taught using "whole word" where you learn a certain series of shapes mean a certain word. You memorize this list. If you are very bright you can remember thousands of series of shapes. If you are average you can remember a few hundred.

And that is the answer.

People will not like this answer because it puts it on the teachers. They prefer the answer that the "children of today are stupid" because there is nothing you can do about that.

[Fury]

Last year I took a class in ConLaw. I was shocked at what I observed.

Students could not read well. Their timing and pace was off. Paragraphs were read as though they were one longggg sentence. Students could not easily pronounce multi-syllabic words.

The professor would ask what the holding was in a case. Just blank stares. I hated chirping in with the answer as the other students rarely answered. Just a lack of engagement.

I talked with the professor after the course was over. He said it was like this before COVID-19, but its gotten worse post-COVID.

[Colorado Doug]

Somehow, many generations learned to read without porn.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Another groomer who wants to encourage children to have sex at a young age so they can have sex with them.

I know a retired teacher who now subs and tutors in elementary school. She says that there are fewer and fewer "smart" kids who get everything easily. And most of the rest are in special ed - turns out there are financial incentives both for the schools and the parents to have more kids with IEPs. And each kid's IEP mandates different conditions - one has to have the questions read to him on a test and only given 2 choices instead of 4 or 5, for example, so the teacher is testing multiple children in different ways in the same class. Who can teach or learn anything in an environment like that? And whenever a "SPED" kid acts up, they are not allowed to be punished unless they physically hurt someone, so they all know to act out to avoid doing anything they don't want to do.

This is the future of America......