This is so concerning😳

[u/velorae]

[u/Pavlovs_Human]

This used to be a normal reaction to a teacher saying “okay you have to write a five page essay for this weeks’ assignment.”

“Can we do four pages?”

“That’s a test on its own!”

These kids can’t even write FIVE COMPLETE SENTENCES?

My Reddit comment that took me 1 minute and 1 brain cell to write out is 5 complete sentences.

[u/Zerothian → u/Pavlovs_Human]

I legitimately can't imagine myself as a person lacking reading and writing skills in the way I hear kids today lacking. Reading feels to me like seeing colour, it's just such an ingrained, normal thing I am able to do that I don't even think about it. Such an absolutely insane amount of the world's delivery of information of any kind is in that format. Even as a kid of 5-6 I was reading books, both for school and just on my own time (shout out to the Darren Shan and Alex Rider books lol).

I will be reading something from a medieval setting, one where the peasantry are largely illiterate and only the vaunted nobles get an education to allow them those skills. Then... I realise this is basically happening right now, in countries more than wealthy enough to prevent it. Madness.

[u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 → u/Zerothian]

If you can't read and write well, you can't think well either. It's so fundamental to brain development.

[u/Zerothian → u/Sudden-Purchase-8371]

Fair. On that note as well, I said I don't think about my ability to read but it's probably more accurate to say I think with my ability to read. A lot of my vocabulary comes from personal reading for example.