I’ve run into this sometimes with my own kids - such an overwhelming level of incoherence that I don’t know where to start. Usually it required going back to a single basic skill. Write a single paragraph. If that’s too much, write three sentences in sequence. Do basic calculations with positive and negative numbers, page after page of them. Day after day of adding and subtracting fractions, until it sticks. Finally.
An ignorant poplar is easier to manipulate.
Look at the young morons supporting Bernie. They have no knowledge of the history of Marxism and no ability to critically evaluate the absurd promises of Bernie’s campaign.
Instead of thought the young are taught to use personal attacks (racism, phobia of the day) to attack opponents, or result to screaming or outright violence.
They took away rote memory learning many moons ago. Too “boring” and “hard” for helicoptered special snowflakes.
I can’t tell you how many 30-somethings answer the phone “this is HER.”
This is thought process is precisely one of the biggest problems with the way children are presently taught. If anything requires that much repetition, the teacher entirely failed to relay the underlying concept effectually in the first place.
A professor just told my granddaughter yesterday that a paragraph can be one sentence?
Good plan. When they can’t run, make them walk, if they stumble there, force them to crawl until they can prove they’re ready to get back up. I’ll have to remember that for my kids.