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Love this. So many reasons - and all fixable with time, resources or funding.

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?)

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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look I know it’s supposed to be a joke but that “irradiated wasteland” is the unceded homeland of the Paiute and Shoshone peoples and consists of fragile Mojave and Great Basin desert ecosystems that are actively being exploited and destroyed by mining interests who utilize the perception of desert as wasteland to justify their destruction of indigenous lands and communities. the joke's not funny. fuck off with this.

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Saying "voting doesn't matter" might reach your younger peers online but it certainly hasn't reached Clangus Hargbarg who was part of the kkk in 1951 and still sends in his ballot. He hasn't missed a one.

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Unmute !

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Why yes. Yes she is. #oscars #oscars2023 #oscars95 https://www.instagram.com/p/CptMA9tvUw2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reset. #journal #fountainpen https://www.instagram.com/p/CprlvjfP2Sr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Tea. Coffee. Water. 2 paracetamol. #podlife #couldlosethecommute https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpll6EqvVDl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Nearly a full moon. This explains a lot of this week. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpUq8lTPRtH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Did…is….did I just get to third base with this avo? #fresh https://www.instagram.com/p/CpKiGDCPvGz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Full moon in Leo. Figures. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoUhkWjPsr0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#whatawaytomakealivin🎶 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoUVsF9vMLR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The people you meet when you put out the bins late. #brisbane #backyard https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4hFPuvwaD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Yep. This oughta do it. #upandatem https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm1rP8PPj0y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It’s weird the things you remember. 33degreesC in springtime Brisbane today and I’d give anything to be standing on a London Underground station watching the mice living their lives. #travelbug https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck-RfLOPxgp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Great day for a rainbow. #lotto #$160M #brisbane https://www.instagram.com/p/CkNXAr3v9w4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When you’re not sure you’ll hear the alarm. Not just me right? #anxiety https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjk1N3VPLvm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It’s a hard life. #scenicrim #carneys #australia https://www.instagram.com/p/CibG3SKL-XR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=