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Also materially this is due to, at least in the US, to austerity and the infamous no child left behind act by bush junior which cut funding for "underperforming" schools. This gutted school curriculums to basically become test mills since the penalty for a "underperforming" cohort was potentially millions of dollars in cut funding. Some of these measures were walked back by progressives, but the neoliberals already got what they wanted and the trump era cuts are about building a parallel school system entirely controlled by private capital.
This is very much not "the youth can't read" and more that the US, with its contradictions mounting, will gut the federal education system. Miseducation is the goal and the system is succeeding. The successful students are not the most accomplished or achieve the most growth but the most obedient and privileged.
These patterns aren't new, minority groups have been feeling this since the beginning but now its universal and so its bubbling up more to the surface.
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