That might explain younger workers, but those in their 50s and above are just as bad.
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The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 days agoSchools (both K-12 and university) keep loosening their expectations of students, and now we have kids starting college with 6th grade reading levels.
School administrators don’t want their graduation stats to look bad, and universities don’t want to lose $$ by flunking students out, so there’s a massive conflict of interest that is ultimately resulting in a disservice to students and society at large.
The other day, I saw this 8th grade graduation exam from a small town in Kentucky in 1912, and it drives home how much things have changed:
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 days ago
whostosay@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m sorry but what the fuck is number 2 under arithmetic?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
…but some things don’t. “Locate Servia on a map?”
They can’t even blame that on autocorrect; obviously the text was originally written on a qwerty keyboard though.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 days ago
In 1912, “Servia” was the accepted English spelling. British journalists started using “Serbia” around 1914.
otp@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
A whole bunch of angry Americans would fail to answer that question correctly these days…