I wonder what kind of SAT scores these kids have.

Yet, somehow, they were all promoted to the next grade, many with honors.

Seems related to the increase in homeschooling.

our education system in the US is failing?

How or who filled out their college application if they can't read sentences?

They're for education, just not for the non-Whites. And they were willing to sacrifice what they thought would be a small portion of poor Whites for the cause. Instead, here we R! See: John Birch Society or Heritage Foundation

A literature professor talks like this?!

"It’s not even an inability to critically think -- it's an inability to read sentences."

What she means, I suppose, is "I can't teach analysis because they can't read full sentences."

The length of a work -- book, novel, short story, blog post, poem, song lyrics -- does not make it more or less worthy of a serious approach. Kids read all day long so what we are really dealing with is that kids won't stop reading one format for long enough periods of time to read novels (?) Studies show that "children who spent more time sending text messages had greater reading comprehension."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5036529/

"leaving colleges no choice but to lower their expectations" They could flunk them. They could steer them toward a good trade school. Plumbers make decent money.

were ‘educated’ in the same system.

Funny story: niece’s friends were so fed up with endless ‘fill in the bubble’ tests, they began a contest to see who could make the best art with filled-in bubbles.

I remember a dolphin was a top scorer.

Ha.

I understand literacy is not a requirement there.