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High school student involved in viral literacy videos in Philadelphia.

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Amala Ekpunobi
He Asked Classmates To Read A Sentence. The Result Went Viral.

A lot of these schools are allowing students that by no means are meeting the standards for reading, writing, math, science, you name it, to just be handed a diploma and to go out on their merry way into adult life, which is leading to the adult literacy problems that we're now seeing in this country.

Amala Ekpunobi
He Asked Classmates To Read A Sentence. The Result Went Viral.

Some had no schooling at all, which could be contributing to just how far behind these students seem to be in some of the videos that we're watching.

Amala Ekpunobi
He Asked Classmates To Read A Sentence. The Result Went Viral.

I've seen other videos of teachers saying that their students are showing up without book bags.

Amala Ekpunobi
He Asked Classmates To Read A Sentence. The Result Went Viral.

And now you have students all over the place who are not learning don't even

Amala Ekpunobi
He Asked Classmates To Read A Sentence. The Result Went Viral.

A lot of teachers are also making videos saying that parents are reinforcing the narrative that the students shouldn't have to meet standards.

Amala Ekpunobi
He Asked Classmates To Read A Sentence. The Result Went Viral.

And this issue goes much further than students simply not meeting standards.

Amala Ekpunobi
He Asked Classmates To Read A Sentence. The Result Went Viral.

come kind of down to their level and try to show them the standards on a text they do understand like is that a possibility like yeah there's a lot of questions i guess for teachers out there and when i tell you i can find hundreds of videos of teachers explaining that none of their students are at the reading level or the grade level that their grade