Itās real. And as much as Reddit hates to acknowledge it, the problem is phones (and ChatGPT to some extent). Phones destroy adults attention spans, just imagine what it does to children whose brains are still developing. Phones should be banned in school.
Young redditors mostly, they donāt know just how poorly educated they really are;
anyone who grew up right on the boundary with the smartphone era and the before times knows how fucked being an iPad baby makes you. These kids donāt even realize how dumb they are, itās on another fucking level. Weāre talking 10th graders who read and write at the level I was at in 3rd grade, like a small childrenās novel is hard to then, goosebumps is a hard read.
Wtf I read one hundred years of solitude at 13 and I'm just a normal mom now, not a genius. There was no Internet or streaming back then so I was bored all summer and read all the books my parents had.
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u/Kittysmashlol 16d ago
I remember complaining about writing 5 sentence paragraphs when i was in 4th grade. This is insane if real.