It’s worth pausing here to point out that you can’t really blame younger people for struggling at what were once seen as academic basics. The school system is in shambles, their education was bisected by the COVID pandemic, and they’re been reared in a world that’s increasingly deemphasized reading in favor of videos, voiceovers, and other emerging forms of communication.

I can gurantee that most children of affluent families suffer less from this. Most of my colleagues in tech spent fortunes in private schools, private online education during covid, and academic training for their kids. Their kids are already interning at companies owned by others in their circles as freshmen. The gap between haves and have-nots is expanding at a truly alarming rate.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago

We're moving closer and closer to feudalism, and what's feudalism without illiterate serfs with no rights?

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

My kid is still in middle school, but in elementary, they had a focus on "Sight Words" not phonics. I remember vividly, learning phonics as a kid in school. I had to teach my own child phonics, because the school seemed to think sight words would be enough, they're not