US high school students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

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• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The fact that a nontrivial number of grade 12 students are functionally illiterate is a civilizational disgrace.

  Part of the problem is the cargo cult of the diploma. People who tend to be successful financially finish high School, therefore the numbers for people who finished high school look better, so people assume that it is a piece of paper that makes them better and not the sort of attributes that would let you graduate from high school. But that's not how it works, it's the other way around.

  Unfortunately, the United States isn't magic. It had good people becuse it had high standards, but once those high standards go away oh you're left with is a nation full of people who aren't good enough to compete in a global market.

  We just haven't realized it yet because the economy is still largely supported by boomers.

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  • realcaseyrollins ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The people around me are literate (and surprise, many of the children in my social circle are homeschooled!), but I really am noticing that so much written content online now, probably made by people my age (25) or slightly younger, is borderline gibberish, and people in comment sections don't ever seem to notice. "Engrish" might just end up being the common written and spoken language of the next generation, and I'm not happy about it since I know this was done intentionally by those running our school systems.

    • amerika@annihilation.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      @realcaseyrollins @sj_zero
      
      I also blame corporate buzzword addiction and politically correct terminology for this because it makes it easy to write gibberish and throw in a few tokens to make it seem important.

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    • amerika@annihilation.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      @realcaseyrollins @sj_zero
      
      Someone on Slashdot was talking about how writers now are imitating AI slop, possibly unconsciously.

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  • amerika@annihilation.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    @sj_zero @realcaseyrollins
    
    The magic of diplomas! They do the same with college.

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