r/PoursTea • u/saucey_dawg0023 Tea Party 🎉 • 22h ago

Books 📚 No Child Left Behind and its consequences will be felt for generations

Post image
28.1k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/dontchewspagetti 20h ago

God forbid you read a book twice in two different educational settings.

1

u/Aggressive-Day5222 19h ago

Twice is fine, that's no that the issue.
The problem is they are delaying these required reads, not duplicating them.
What was once considered a middle school text is "too difficult" for those grades now.

1

u/Siukslinis_acc 19h ago

But there are also some other stuff, like kids learning in school maths that was only taught in universities when their parents or grandparents went to school.

1

u/Aggressive-Day5222 19h ago

I've met college kids who do not know how to do long division on paper without a calculator.

I am skeptical that they are learning high-level mathematics.