I've talked to a few high school and young college students in the last few years to get a feeling for what pandemic and LLMs have done to education, but this seems near apocalyptic to me. An inability for a majority of English majors to read 19th century literature, or for their teachers to even bother teaching with books? I think the students I've been talking to have given me a false sense of hope.
https://nataliewexler.substack.com/p/struggles-with-bleak-ho...
the "soft bigotry of low expectations" has come for AP classes and college curriculums.