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

sj_zero ⁨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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