[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.

[algore]

“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. “

I don’t know about that, but “Aoccdrnig to a study at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”