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The Average College Student Is Illiterate

Students are not what they used to be. The crisis is worse than you think.

I understand why the professor who wrote this is staying anonymous.

This is what is happening in pedagogy, at least in America. young adults are significantly dumber. They can read anything at or below the complexity of Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, but they are missing the major themes and concepts, i.e. they aren't understanding magic = white supremacy or that Katniss is being groomed by the revolutionaries. its like how people watch severance or any movie, and "analyze" the "underlying" themes but they are just stating what blatantly happens and calling the text subtext, but they somehow seem amazed by their ability to do this.

Young people reach a 7th grade level and cease all intellectual developmental milestones. when they reach a road block they will literally just do something else. they either immediately reach for tiktok or chatgpt or they will entirely give up and freeze until classtime ends. they are also doing this bizarre guessing game with the rest of a word after seeing a familiar start, confusing words like embellished/embedded, substitute/substantial. This is feasibly a simple mistake but I mean 2-3x per paragraph.

In 2022, I was SHOCKED to see that these are completely able bodied, normal, upper/middle class people who are not only falling behind all the old milestones but they seem to all have serious intellectual disabilities. like they seem to have a real impairment or some form of brain damage, things kids used to be held back for remedial courses with extra tutoring or summer cram schooling to resolve, like, we had to build the extra brainpower to make it through advanced calculus ii or classical to modern philosophy. but they have replaced all difficult thought exercise with chatgpt, so nobody is addressing any of it

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you know what?? hot take for y’all with OCD.

who gives a shit if you have bad thoughts??? like seriously—

now i do NOT mean that like “nobody cares about you or your mental illness”, i mean that like “you’re not a horrible person”.

i don’t care WHAT you have intrusive thoughts about. i’m serious. THOUGHT CRIME DOES NOT EXIST. so as long as you aren’t out there doing horrible things, it’s okay if you have horrible thoughts.

you have a disorder. and your intrusive thoughts are a symptom of that disorder. the content of your thoughts does not say anything about the quality of your character. you are not a bad person for having a mental disorder.

if you’d like to reblog this, that would be great. i’d love for more people to read this. however it’s also ok if you don’t. (reminder that telling people to reblog or else they’re horrible is very ableist to people with OCD!!)