Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.
I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.
Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright 
The scapegoating and inability or refusal to identify the systemic issues gets to me tenfold more than the sorry state of education.
I looked at another thread in that sub and there was literally someone who went "it's all ipads -> tiktok is a Chinese conspiracy to dumb down its enemies." I only saw 2 posts that had anything deeper.
Still can't believe that TikTok conspiracy is still so widespread when the US government hasn't been hiding its ties to the app.
they do have poor comprehension.