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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I feel like it's easy to blame social media....I don't think students are challenged to read enough at any level of education

Yeah like I said earlier in the thread, I don't think this is anything new. I remember being in middle school over 20 years ago and tons of kids didn't read. People were blaming video games and MTV. A lot of it had to do with kids being made to read books they weren't interested in, so they couldn't read denser material, either.

Neoliberalism is focused on churning out a workforce using as few resources as possible. It's not interested in making educated human beings.