Meanwhile, half of them are illiterate. The parents need to get themselves and their children off the internet.
Let’s start with you then.

Done. I don’t have any children and am not using a device to occupy them.

In all seriousness, this outright angry reaction is really surprising. People should be angry that their children are illiterate, but I suppose if they were, the children wouldn’t be.

Using slang doesn’t mean they’re illiterate dawg

I didn’t say or imply that. The spread of the slang is over media they consume because parents are using devices as babysitters. Them being illiterate means they’re illiterate, dawg.

newsnationnow.com/…/students-cant-read-education/

Two-thirds of American kids can’t read. This may be why

Many point to the pandemic to explain learning loss, but experts have been debating reading education for decades.

NewsNation
It’s a little sensational for the headline. 72% of fourth graders are reading below expected levels. And they are blaming decades old teaching tactics, which seems odd as you would expect a larger percentage of adults not to be able to read if this was truly the problem.