There are a lot of factors. The biggest one is they want people stupid. Stupid people are much easier to control.
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@toosoon You must be ill-informed, quite biased and in favour of Québec bashing. The government has English translations available for its minority in “La belle province”. Educate yourself. The information is out there.
http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/documents/publications/DepStatAlpha_eng.pdf
My mom: "because you're always on that damn phone!"
I have coworkers that were in the last few years of high school when covid broke out. They spent all day playing video games or watching Netflix and when it came time to graduate, well.... there wasn't a ceremony or anything. They just got their diploma in the mail.
Not saying covid is the absolute reasoning for it, but it did play a huge part in our youth having a hard time reading and writing
It's not just that. It's not understanding words either. One example that Annoys me to no end is when I tell someone to flip a card over and they rotate it. This is in a upper middle class neighborhood. ( Just to be clear on the definition a card being rotated turns around the y-axis. Fliping a card rotates it around it's z-axis) while the issue is clearly there it's a bit more complicated than bad schools clearly.
( Just to be clear on the definition a card being rotated turns around the y-axis. Fliping a card rotates it around it’s z-axis)
Ok professor, what if the card is in your hand and not laying on the table?
Then the card has changed it's orientation in three dimensional space and the action needs to be adjusted accordingly ;)
If you need it in easier language, student, then rotating it would mean turning it upside down, and flipping means turning it around. :)
It's not just that. It's not understanding words either. One example that Annoys me to no end is when I tell someone to flip a card over and they rotate it. This is in a upper middle class neighborhood. ( Just to be clear on the definition a card being rotated turns around the y-axis. Fliping a card rotates it around it's z-axis) while the issue is clearly there it's a bit more complicated than bad schools clearly.