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majesticdirewolf asked:

do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)

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visenyaism answered:

It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:

  • It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)
  • It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.
  • It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.
  • It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.
  • It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.
  • It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.
  • It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.
  • It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.
  • It’s the learning loss from covid.
  • It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.
  • It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.
  • It’s increasing phone use.
  • It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.
  • It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.
  • It’s starting to also be generative AI.
  • It’s the book bans.

what did I miss.

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Cannot believe I forgot to also blame charter schools, voucher programs, and the conservative push to lower the teenage working age and get poor kids tracked out of college prep and into vocational training for this. i have let everyone down

#we also don't fail kids anymore#as bad as that sounds#the grade forgiveness programs they all cheat through means they don't try anymore#sad to not be a teacher anymore but also don't miss it at all#just the people#text
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Anonymous asked:

wait i gotta know more about the Ellen Pompeo thing

Lol it was a request that spiraled. Ellen tweeted something and used black emojis (which to me is weird because she's white but that's just my opinion) and my friend who is black asked her not to do it anymore. Ellen decided to pull the 'my husband is black' card as her reasoning instead of just saying my bad. It just devolved into discourse after that. Since then I've learned Ellen just has foot in mouth disease.

Some articles that were written because of course the media caught wind (1), (2), (3).

#ana if you're seeing this you're still iconic for this#anonymous#answered#also this is not an invitation to resume discourse#tell it to your momma
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