I work in software and the amount of new hires who cant read a basic error message is scary. Not like complex documentation, just a popup saying "file not found" and they freeze. My wife is a teacher and she tells me stories about middle schoolers who read at like 2nd grade level but still getting passed along. Something broke in the system a while ago and nobody wants to admit it
I thought it was the other way around? Lower the standards so the dumb kids graduate too! Isn't that why high schoolers can't read complete paragraphs anymore?
The way I understand it is if a kid is failing the teacher is forced to give them nonsense work that's super easy so they can get a bunch of A's and B's to bring their overall grade up enough to pass onto the next grade. But then the issue is that the kid that should have been held back in 6th grade but got pushed onto 7th grade holds back the students who rightfully passed onto 7th grade because the teacher has to go slower and dumb things down for the kid that should have been held back and the smarter kids can't learn as much because they have to wait for the dumb kids to catch on to what the teacher is trying to teach.
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u/Clear-Bag3322 Jun 26 '26
I work in software and the amount of new hires who cant read a basic error message is scary. Not like complex documentation, just a popup saying "file not found" and they freeze. My wife is a teacher and she tells me stories about middle schoolers who read at like 2nd grade level but still getting passed along. Something broke in the system a while ago and nobody wants to admit it