Kids Are Graduating… But They Can’t Read

MY STEPMOTHER IN 1977 WAS A COLLEGE ENGLISH TEACHER AND THEY COULD NOT READ OR WRITE THEN??

We really need to start holding parents accountable for not parenting

To be fair, as a lifelong reader, that sentence about accommodating the governor's schedule employed terribly old-fashioned and, to a modern ear, awkward phrasing.

This is definitely not new From 1997-2000 I was a U.S. Army Recruiter in Baltimore, Maryland and kids had High School Diploma’s and couldn’t pass the ASVAB or the 30 minute test given inside the Recruiting Station Basic math and reading So many wanted to join but they couldn’t because they didn’t have the basic skills they should of had

What race of kids? This isnt a "crisis" its just measuring diverse schools.

The problem is that education in this country since the start of the millennium has never been about actually educating and gaining knowledge. It's only been geared towards following directions and executing a task. And it's been this way because the workforce is exactly that. Following directions and completing a task.
We aren't educating kids for the sake of education and gaining knowledge. It's about being a good worker drone, being meat for the grinder, another cog in the machine. They've purposefully made us experts in a small task without having understanding of the greater whole. The bare minimum to keep the capitalist economy running. To make rich people richer while the rest ofbus get dumber and poorer.

This was made clear during the pandemic when fast food worker became "essential" workers. Before, being an essential worker meant being a worker in an industry that was beneficial to society, like healthcare workers. Now it's just any worker that keeps the capitalist machine alive. Any worker that keeps the money flowing.

My daughters spelling is dreadful. She has a type of dyslexia, and just cant spell out words. She had to learn a whole word. But sometimes she will spell a hard word correctly, other times spells a short word wrong. But she can read and write.

I went to school in the 70's and 80's and yes there was a fear of having your butt lit up at any time and it was, but at the same time the school taught us to respect authority whether it was your parents, a teacher, law enforcement or just someone older than you. People didn't have a fear of correcting someone's child for being out of place or acting out by politely saying, "does your parents know what you are doing?" or "I'll be letting your parents know what you did" and then the parents would punish the child for their behavior in public. Children were looked at as an extension of the parents and when the child did something wrong the parents took it personally that this happened.

There was no "everyone is equal" or no punishment for your actions, that didn't fly. If we didn't do the work, we failed and were held back or had to go to summer school. They separated the kids into groups that excelled and those who didn't, so that one group didn't drag down the other. No one was treated special. It's time to go back to some authority in the class.

"The hot cheetos girls became parents first" 😂

This is seriously alarming!

College standards have been lowered too and it sucks for everyone. College should be exclusive and not for everyone instead of the default post-high school choice.

28:23 omg as a later genZ this unlocked so many memories. 😭 I don’t think I type “correctly” to this day but I’m still a fast typer.

I remember SOBBING in anger when my dad would respond with “look it up” in the encyclopedia/thesaurus/dictionary to almost every question I asked.
Don’t let it be a question where I asked him how to spell a word…

I can’t spell it, so how do you expect me to look it up, DAD!😭

Anywho, thanks dad. You were a real one! lol

This is happening in Canada too. The kids don't get homework, they don't get held back a year if they fail everything, they don't get taught how to write past what they learn in grade 1. We had to do most of the work at home to ensure things were learned by our child. Not every family has the resources or time to do that. Luckily they don't teach kids how to read by looking at the pictures and guessing what it says.....sheeeesh! PS I love your necklace.

So at what point do we look at the parents? Are you not monitoring your kids homework? Are you not getting involved? Why is bad parenting acceptable?

They need to bring back the reading program.

Teachers arent teaching the problem , the teachers would rather be buddies and instagram stars with the kids … What needs to be talked about is the total lack of education in the education system by teachers … Blame the source of info no real info given is equal to lack of teaching standards it’s DEI in teaching .

did you really just say “more smarter” in a video about literacy, comprehension and education? 😭

The US is doomed. It's just the beginning.

I was in the military, and when I tell you the fresh high school graduates that are enlisting at 17 genuinely are some if the least thinking individuals I have ever met. Its not just the kids who were in elementary during Covid. Its been happening for a while. They really have no critical thinking skills. Even if they can read and sound out words, they cannot comprehend it. It feels like it isn't critical thinking, it's basic thinking. "Put it in your own words" is impossible because they don't retain or understand what they just read.

I wish women would stop filming themselves talking while putting makeup on when it is NOT a makeup tutorial video. It's getting very common. Talking about kids not being able to read then getying the lip gloss out to slather on. It's not super weird, its just because a pointless trend. You can literally take 2 seconds to apply lip gloss before you start recording yourself.

I'm ready for all the disagreements and defense to come my way. In the words of Kuzko....


"Bring it on"

Also, this is so eye opening as to another reason why school was so important for that generation. It also shines light on why a lot of people in that generation didn’t have a high school degree.
I can honestly say I always wondered, but assumed - was conditioned to be believe by society- that it was simply because they were “lazy” or “not smart”.
Watching this video I see it’s nowhere near that simple

“More smarter”

…grammar matters…

There are a list of things you should be able to read. A map, a recipe, the bill of rights, terms and conditions, policies, etc. It's scary that so many can't comprehend most of these things and they will be parents soon. So another generation who will not be able to read. It's a slippery slope and we are flying down it.

Did anyone pause to read the student marriage policy 😳?

I remember back in the 70s they used to advertise on tv book mobile in neighborhoods

im js happy im gen z and smart like no one in my class cant read 'silhouette' for example even the ones who are no offense kindaaa failing

Yeah this coupled with the rise of AI in place of free thinking and curiosity just gives me sinister vibes for the future.

source?

Man, I graduate next year and the amount of kids I can't have a basic conversation with because they don't know basic words is astonishing. The spelling itself is... I can't beileve they made it this far, and so often will I be the one they ask how to spell "future" or even "know." Don't even get me started on puncuation.

Is that problem happening in Europe and progressive African/Caribbean nations? No. This is an American problem. Have fun solving it.

I wish this wasn’t true. But my little cousins is going into the 5th grade and doesn’t read where she needs to be. The comprehension just isn’t there.

I taught before, during, and after COVID and I will say I’ve found the most student success and growth is when the Chromebooks are under/in the desk. The only thing I do on technology is their assessments because their state tests are on the computer. Besides that and the few simulators we use it’s all pencil and paper.

How vexing. My tax payer dollars at work to produce a generation of incompetence. You don't have to be a parent to be affected by this. I'm not a parent, but I own my own home and it's infuriating to me to know that my tax payer dollars are going towards a broken system. Yes, that means non-parents who are often ignored, do have a place in the conversation around the problem, though too many do write it off as "somebody else's problem."

Plus, after the broken school system fails them, we have to deal with them in the work force and it's a real problem. At work you need the new hires to have wheels turning upstairs to learn on the job and step up to become an asset to the company. We don't have time to teach them the fundamentals they should already know and they'll be let go in favor of hiring someone else who does know them. Even college grads often end up in the work force completely missing the most basic critical thinking skills. It's a real national crisis and as tech like AI is poised to completely change the world, it needs rational human oversight to be able to change it for the good and that can't happen if the humans coming out of school can't even handle the most basic of tasks.

How many times have i seen the exact same tiktoks in these kinds of videos...

The drop out rate in 1972 was 14% . Today it is 5.3%.

There are phrases here in South Africa for that"Cram,pass, forget" and "pass one ,pass all" 26:13 its so sad

Read the Bible to them it works it gives them meaning and purpose of reading

as a 7th grader, THANK GOD my school did phonics. i mean i have gone to private schools my whole life, but i dont think that affects it

Its everyone's fault but the parents...

Some schools also don't teach parts of speech and sentence diagramming. How are they gonna get practice understanding sentences fully if they dont understand what goes into making and breaking apart sentences. When I was in school I hated sentence diagramming but when I come across a sentence that doesn't make sense to me, I can ask myself questions to help me figure it out. Who is the subject of the sentence ? What is the subject doing? Do I have any discriptors about the subject or discriptors about how the subject is doing something? That's extra practice finding nouns, identifying verbs, adjectives, adverbs. All these things help kids not only make sense of sentences but also to write more detailed sentences as well.

Both my parents were public school teachers and I saw the effects of this first hand and both my parents hated no child left behind. They should have provided funding to the failing schools and figured out why they were failing.