Give the lower education system's government-mandated mission of teaching-to-test rather than teaching-to-learn (1), the use of participation-based grading rather than result-based (2), and a generational shift towards ridiculously over-protective parenting (3), I'm not surprised.
One of my best friends works at Student Legal here on campus. Her stories of student illiteracy are not only appalling, they are in the multiples per day. The problem isn't students' ability to read and write in cursive, it's whether or not they can read or write at all.
Brad
(1) Thank you, Common Core
(2) Thank you, continuing feminization of the education system. (Oh, competition is icky and how boys best learn! We need to make it more cooperative!)
(3) When you have fewer children, you are far more invested in your one child's future success.
Add to that the purposeful stealing of the future from "gifted" children born into poorer families.
1 We can't allow those children to ever be challenged because they would leave behind the less capable students, so we will trap them in classes with students who will never be able to keep up with them, leaving the bored
at best and often leaving them in a situation where their fellow student
actively sabotage them.
Our education system is just peachy.
1: I say poorer families because the more well-off families will most often ensure their children get the proper education they require either through private schooling, homeschooling, or tutoring. Poorer families don't generally have the ability to make those choices.
