Christina Villegas has written an excellent and very important article but the problems she cites go way deeper into the present and more importantly the future of America and the world.
The dumbing down of America's schools and our students has created several generations of progressively less well educated Americans.
Once America recovers the political will to reverse this horrible trend where will the necessary well-educated people come from to initiate and carry out the reversal? We will need many thousands of great teachers. Where will we find them?
America has been the gravitational center of world freedom for a couple of hundred years. That center has now lost a large portion of its mass. What is going to replace this crucial centering mass? China and Russia? Their core education is way ahead of ours.
So while "the plan" has dawdled along waiting for the normies to realize what's going on, a generation of American children has been sacrificed to leftist, radical progressive ideology. That generation will be seen to be very important to the preservation of America's role at the center of world freedom. And it is gone.
The learning years are a physiological reality. You can't get them back once they've been squandered. Mathematics is taught to young eager minds for the reason that those minds are able to absorb mathematics. We don't teach maths to middle aged folks, do we?
So we need to get the damn plan moving. Even a crash program with a complete reversal of teaching priorities will not suffice to replace what we've allowed to slip away. Time does not come back. Youth does not return.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-purposeful-degradation-of-americas-schools/
Learning does become more difficult than the sponge-like capacity of a pre-adolescent, however it is not impossible. The learning will be slowed somewhat, but the reformation of schools and the teaching system will be pivotal in catching some of the new generation up. Homeschooling, private schools, Christian theological based schools will play a major part in this reformation. The larger concern is the last two to three generations that have been heavily indoctrinated to a warped view on reality. The most recent generation has been terribly warped and will have a very difficult time overcoming CRT and Common Core programming. These are the ones that will require the most attention. Some will be lost, but I hope that the rest can be salvaged. The elementary students will adapt more easily than the older, more thoroughly indoctrinated middle and high schoolers, but the college level brainwashed are going to be the greatest challenge. All of us are going to play a big role in the post-globalist reformation. We are going to have to pitch in and do a lot of the heavy lifting to help these people understand what is truly happening and to help them grasp what was done to them. We will need to be there to provide them with support and simply provide them with the truth about the world and humanity. I pray that 4-6% that are lost is at the upper limit of what we cannot salvage.