How are they even in high school? The literacy crisis is getting worse!

“No child left behind”? They fucking left the entire generation

No Child Left Behind was really the War on Education. They just didn’t frame it like that.

I know every generation thinks that the generation after it is doomed but this is staggering. We might actually be cooked. Thankfully AI will be there to do half of the jobs. Best they can hope for to survive is that governments implement some kind of universal basic income to keep them fed and housed.

Even with the shitty education system we have, I don’t understand how a teenager can be THIS illiterate. To the point their writing is gibberish and can’t spell basic words. Unless there’s a learning disability, how can they pass ANY of their classes?

You also gotta remember there's a lot of kids who were "learning from home" during Covid. And the system is about passing them without addressing their issues

Auto correct, predictive text, and talk to text has made a whole generation unable to spell.

This is why Trump is president.

As someone who works in education, I gotta caution about confirmation biases and these posts. We are definitely seeing a starker contrast between the haves and have nots when it comes to educational attainment but it's not the apocalypse as others have said. Kids with involved parents who achieve higher post secondary educational achievement are still doing quite well with raising kids that can do the work.

But there is a more stark contrast, as I said, between the haves and have-nots. This is probably caused by the outright end game assault that conservatism is putting towards public education but that's not going to be quantifiable until years after these cuts and attacks have passed.

Because parents from higher income enclaves will tear local schoolboards apart for engaging in any of the political nonsense you've seen in middle income areas. Parents in Bergen County in north Jersey had a couple nutballs elected to the school board who tried the same shit they were doing in Florida and it got shut down, fast. Nobody who's paying several hundred thousand dollars for a house in a good district, and shouldering the tax burden for great schools is going to allow them to fuck with the system.

I'm torn on this subject because I have two 15 year olds who both struggle in school. They struggle in different areas where one has trouble reading and the other has trouble with math. They have a supportive household and they go to a good school and have plenty of resources to help them improve. The thing that is shocking to me about kids this age right now is how FAR they will go to be lazy about their work or getting out of doing their work. They absolutely will submit work like this if they think they can get away with it. They just do not care at all about school or trying to learn new skills. In their minds why should they try when they can just have AI do everything for them? It's pure laziness. It's got to be exhausting being a teacher and having to babysit every single thing that kids are doing because they are just lazy and don't want to put any effort in. I know it's exhausting as a parent.