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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the screens. That’s the final answer. No one reads anymore. [/quote]

This.  Kids aren’t reading.  Kids aren’t even learn to hand write.  Kids aren’t learning grammar or spelling either.  All of this ties together to make for terrible literacy.  EdTech is also an epic failure and doing no favors for kids that already get too much screen time outside of school.  Plus there has been a HUGE push to make reading selections in school “inclusive.” Schools don’t read classics anymore, but rather they intentionally pick books with black, brown, or from some other marginalized group at the main character and with the storyline revolving around that. It’s dumbed down literature that they slap an Newbury award on. Example: my 6th grader in honors English had to read New Kid and whatever the sequel was for their class.  It’s a graphic novel with a Lexile level of 320 (basically a 1st-2nd grade vocabulary)On top of that, they didn’t even have to read it!  It was played on audio in class.  I wish I was joking.

Now compare that to my public middle school experience in the  late 90s.  We read Treasure Island, Julie of the Wolves, Island of the Blue Dolphin…probably others.  And actually read them- as in we would be work with the teacher in smaller groups and have to take turns reading aloud.  These books have a Lexile level of 850-1000.[/quote]

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