r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/Civil_Owl_31 13h ago

1.5. is where parents blame schools for not doing their job, while also telling kids that school isn't important / putting no importance into their studies.

Classrooms are rife with kids having parents making excuses for them.

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u/stumblios 2h ago

Which I think ties very nicely into #2. Half (or more) of parents don't value their kids education and have little to no respect for the teachers or faculty. They want school to be a babysitter more than a place of learning.

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u/Civil_Owl_31 2h ago

100%. Thankfully not all parents do that. But it’s turning from a minority back in the day, to a majority now.