US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by cevn on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:17AM (#45198063)

Wow, I spent 90% of my free time as a kid in the school library. Reading this hurts. At least they are protecting them from using their brain

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Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by OhMeadhbh on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:37AM (#45199278)

+1. Libraries are about more than just lending out books.

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Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by wing-_-nuts on Thursday September 11, 2025 @12:04PM (#45213175)

I got shunted into remedial reading in the 1st grade because I had a visible disability. I was there for about a week before the teacher noticed I was bored to tears. Bless her, she had me tested. Turns out I was reading at a 4th grade level, so I immediately got taken out of that class and put into the 'gifted' class.

That class was the best kind of unstructured. We had a new teacher with little experience, but she just turned us lose on the school library and let us read whatever and then talk about it in class. I *ADORED* that class. It was getting an hour a day to basically do what I wanted to be doing anyway.

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