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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Computers, social media and lack of printed newspapers and easy entertainment are to blame. Even I can't read the longer more intense novels I used to as a teen in the 90s. [/quote]

It's not just kids.  Adults are scoring lower in reading comprehension as well.  It started, for kids and adults, in [b]2012/2013[/b], although the pandemic exacerbated it.  (In 2012, 4G LTE was rolling out nationwide and we went from slow 3G smartphones to fast 4G smartphones.  And that was it.)[/quote]

Yep.  This is when the smartphone became ubiquitous and it became normal for little kids to carry ipads everywhere in the same way they used to carry a coloring book to a restaurant or the doctor.  It's not rocket science.

I don't understand the confusion around this ... is it Covid? What else could it be? Etc.  It's none of those things.  Get rid of the computers and ipads in elementary schools for goodness sakes!! Ban phones in school ... not "keep it in your backpack" but the student should not be allowed to have it at all during the school day.

Can't you see the myon books and the ST math and the Lexia is all low-quality learning? Just take a look at them.  At the least, it's not even close to reading real literature or references books, working through hard math problems on paper, and being taught how to read and write directly from a knowledgeable adult and then putting pencil to paper.  It's not hard to figure out you guys, parents just need to be stronger and more vocal than the greedy tech companies.[/quote]

I’ve never heard of myon books or ST math.   What books are middle school students reading?   Mine reads a lot of paper books in school but they seem on the easier side.  [/quote]Not much. [/quote]

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