[IronJack]

Ignored in this piece is the fact that kids can't read because their teachers are too busy indoctrinating them with leftist pap to hold them to any standards. And the participation-trophy generation can't be flunked because they're too lazy or stupid to learn because that might harm their fragile egos.

So they cruise through their courses without learning squat, while countless academics ponder a question whose answer has been clear for decades.

[goodnesswins]

Yes, I doubt today’s classrooms have Reading Groups set up by ABILITY...as ours did in 1st grade...the ones needing the most help were in the same group...that way they got MORE help, and didn’t keep the rest of the group behind. I ALWAYS hated slow readers, even in 1st grade. (And, felt sorry for them, too) We were forced to read OUTLOUD to our class. It probably made some make more of an effort to LEARN to read. (This was 1956-7)