And they should flunk their classes. Professors Issue Warning Over Surge in College Students Unable to Read - Slay News
But no. The professors will bend over backward to pass them, because anything else - like meritocracy - would be too conservative.
A growing number of college professors are sounding the alarm over a quiet but accelerating crisis on American campuses, as Gen Z students are arriving at universities unable to read at even a basic level.
Why should they be able to read. Their "teachers" haven't been teaching. They have been indoctrinating.
Jessica Hooten Wilson, a professor of great books and humanities at Pepperdine University, told the outlet:
“It’s not even an inability to critically think.
“It’s an inability to read sentences.”
Professors say it is the predictable outcome of a K–12 system that no longer ensures basic competence.
Standards were lowered, accountability eroded, and reading increasingly treated as optional.
Read the whole depressing thing. And then thank a Teachers' Union.
I've been watching this get worse for years. It seemed to accelerate about the time smart phones got popular. And it's mind-boggling for me.
ReplyDeleteI started FIRST GRADE already knowing how to read. (My sister taught me when I was FOUR. She was EIGHT.)
That people are graduating high school illiterate tells me the issue isn't merely incompetent teachers.
These students are being actively sabotaged.
This was starting back in the early '70s in my first year of college. There were stories about kids going into chemistry that couldn't do high school level chemistry, or worse.
ReplyDeletePeople point out that not one measurement has improved since Department of Education got started. It's more than that, just like it's more than just incompetent teachers. But it wouldn't hurt to get rid of both them and the teacher's unions.