When people talk about war, they imagine Battleields abroad, no primary school corridors. But America is involved in a civilian crisis – a war that quietly destroys the brains of children and our future.
The battlefield is our public school system. The victims are the spirit, dreams and potential of an entire generation.
Apart from the enormous indoctrination in the schools of our country in the alphabet (LGBTQIA ++) ideologies, the actual alphabet has suffered. The literacy of America is crater in the last century. A new study marks that 28% of American adults perform the third grade at the lowest level of literacy. Even worse, the share of adults who read below a sixth degree level clocked at around 54%.
Only 42% of 9-year-olds and 17% of the 13-year-olds read ‘almost daily’ for pleasure. This marks the lowest in 40 years. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty images)
Our children are doing even worse. Naep-Leesscores fell in 2024- fourth and eighth class players since 2022, two more points, which started a trend that began before the pandemic that marked the lowest reading skills in 32 years.
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That’s not a blip – it’s a dive. The Fallout: Weaker critical thinking, poorer work views and citizens who cannot even pars basic news heads.
And while we lose ground in literacy, we pay much more money. Inflation-corrected income for K-122 rose around 25% per student from 2002 to 2020. In 2020–21, public schools spent no less than $ 16,280 per student, with a stunning $ 927 billion in general.
What a waste! The extra money built the bureaucratic administration while the learning outcomes fell. It’s like you’re upgrade to a Ferrari without a motor.
Despite billions spent on technology to teach literacy, reading is falling. Only 42% of 9-year-olds and 17% of the 13-year-olds read ‘almost daily’ for pleasure. This marks the lowest in 40 years. We gave them child lessons and Chromebooks, but forgot to realize their curiosity.
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One in three eighth classes cannot read a textbook well enough to pass a history quiz. And that is just “basic”, which was not before. Indeed, the “educators” have relegated the word “skill” so that they could stack a bunch of lower performance to see if it was looming. To cover their tracks, they shifted the national conversation of “what do our children know?” To “How do they feel?”
They gave priority to soft skills over hard knowledge. Participation -Trophies replaced performance stimuli and blown up figures with real learning. Children left high school emotionally confused than intellectually prepared. They even came up with a new term, ‘adults’, because adult behavior became such a foreign concept. The schools have been producing eternal children for too long.
They also teach children to outsource thinking. (Just Google it.) Artificial intelligence and calculators can help with homework, but they also train in dependence. Students remember less, understand less and trust more.
The question is whether America can afford to outsource our intellect.
The US once led the world in innovation, from the cotton gin to the traffic light. Now most of our students wind in the direction of complacency and mediocrity. Our unlimited imagination was fed by reading, not by consuming the visual pablum of our streaming services.
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This is not a partisan injection. Naep scores fell before Covid, before a curriculum debates woke up before someone warned of ‘too much technology’. They have fallen since we started the Ministry of Education and since the training started.
Pandemic interruptions deteriorated things, but the rot were already there. If we do not turn the course, we write a death advertisement for American exceptional. We can be overshadowed by a world that takes competition seriously.
There are simple steps to recover that entrepreneurial spirit that provided the engine for almost the greatest triumph in human history. Instead of sending our healthy children to institutions that are essentially imitating prisons, you return to the intuitive and curious character of children – their natural urge to learn.
The parents’ voices have to matter more at our schools. Parental involvement is the number one predictor of academic performance. They must be included in every dialogue about learning children.
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We have to teach Phonics instead of the failed “whole word reading method” that is pushed at our schools.
Standards must be clearly defined: if you cannot read above the eighth grade, you will not graduate.
No more participation prices for mediocrity. Show children that efforts matter, not just feelings.
Money must flow to classrooms: textbooks, teachers, coaches – no longer diversity officers. Streamline school budgets and reduce costs for unnecessary overhead costs.
Invest in logic, rhetoric and debate. Children learn how to train argument and arguments will train them to think deep, which scrolls superficially every time.
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Make books sexy again. Reading family nights. Library trips. Book “Flirtation”, not forced indoctrination.
We have effectively taught children to edit their selfies, but not their sentences. We are not doomed – but we are dangerously eager. The war against reading – the war against thinking – is real, but the front line is in living rooms and school board meetings. The fate of America is not lost. It is in the courage to demand more – for our children and our country.
The future of America should not be scripted by bureaucracy – but by smart, curious, literate children. Let’s fight back.
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