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I'm sorry I haven't posted in awhile I recovered from opioid addiction and stopped being obsessed with muppets.

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do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)

It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:

It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)

It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.

It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.

It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.

It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.

It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.

It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.

It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.

It’s the learning loss from covid.

It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.

It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.

It’s increasing phone use.

It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.

It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.

It’s starting to also be generative AI.

It’s the book bans.

what did I miss.

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never ever ever gets old

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nothing could prepare you for the opening of the second paragraph (source)

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It's not easy being green 💚💖

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i feel like people think im some form of parody account

am not.

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HIIIII!! im right here!!!

where is the muppets fandom

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this woman came up to me and went you need jesus yada yada which is insane cuz i literally was wearing a huge cross and was trying to hand me pamphlets and i was like move away from me, and then she started quoting corinthians at me and like SHOUTING it and she kept trying to touch me and i basically had to push her off me and then quoted Ephesians at her and walked away cuz like if youre gonna quote the bible at me youre gonna get it back i dont hold any like anger towards her like shes obviously very indoctronated into whatever chuch shes apart of, but i feel more and more these london preachers are getting worse, i had one literally get on his knees and pray for me in sheppards bush last week which hurts me a lot, cuz jesus would not care about my tattoos or piercings fuck jesus even had a tattoo himself (and piercings if you count yk) and like my body is a temple adorned with art, people do not judge the Sistine Chapel

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The rot is gone?

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Smell of the rot not so bad today, maybe the rot is the friends we made along the way or maybe the rot is going into it's true form, if I find the source of the rot i may or may not consume it in order to be closer to God or I may or may not become God

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I am the rot

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The rot smell is gone from my room!!! Or I've just got used to the smell

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@hexedvampire hai :3

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i smell the rot and then bleach the rot and then bleach rot bleach rot bleach rot bleach