We have to teach very rigid curriculums that — to my knowledge — didn’t factor in student agency at any stage of the process really. In a media landscape where everything is hyper-stimulating and hyper-curated, demanding these kids to focus on the random and often boring texts selected by …
(From their pov) random adults results in a task that’s much more complicated than just simple reading comp. It’s also asking for a huge amount of executive function that they haven’t really developed. Plus the unwillingness to hold kids back makes the gpa based feedback meaningless.
It also stops them from practicing in an environment where the challenge level stays consistent, instead of taking someone without the resources they need and then pushing them forward into an even more challenging set of obstacles. It’s so so so broken. I could say 100 more things about it tbh.