Even prior to the "digital generation", the reading and comprehension skills of a lot of students at my grammar school in the UK were piss-poor, even when I lef

Even prior to the "digital generation", the reading and comprehension skills of a lot of students at my grammar school in the UK were piss-poor, even when I left at sixteen. These kids weren't diagnosed with dyslexia either. Part of what we blamed was the switching between techniques of teaching reading. It seemed every few years a new gimmick to teach it came along. Kids, parents and even teachers thought the methods became worse over time, but they had to teach what was on the curriculum. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jan/19/focus-on-phonics-to-teach-reading-is-failing-children-says-landmark-study https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/jan/19/focus-on-p...