I think it's pretty clear that the critical reading skills required to handle the information density in a tiktok caption or the average message between 15 year

I think it's pretty clear that the critical reading skills required to handle the information density in a tiktok caption or the average message between 15 year olds is a little different than what we're aiming for in an educational setting. Language informs thought, in a very concrete way. If I can't write it, or read it, I can't think it (to some degree). We abandon formal reading and writing educational standards at the risk of handicapping a generation of young people with poor cognitive scaffolding.