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High school student exposes classmates' abysmal reading skills — as they struggle with words like 'silhouette,' 'extraordinary'

New York Post·Anthony Blair·29 days ago
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A high school student in Philadelphia exposed how his classmates are struggling to read easy words and comprehend relatively simple sentences in a viral series of videos. And he may have gotten in hot water for his trouble. The videos,  posted on TikTok , show the teenagers failing to read a sentence on a piece of paper while being filmed at the city’s Preparatory Charter School of Mathematics, Science, Technology and Careers. In the clip, made by user “ whatthevek ” earlier this week, not a single high school-aged student was able to read the sentence, “She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche.” He made a  follow-up video  a day later in which the students were apparently unable to make sense of the sentence, “The colonel asked the choir to accommodate the governor’s schedule.” A viral video purports to show students at a Philly charter school struggling to read basic sentences.…

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