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America’s kids are falling behind, far surpassed by China in education, but it’s no wonder, given the steady diet of toxic social media and divisive gender- and race-obsessed materials they’re bombarded with daily.
US students ranked eighth in reading, 11th in science and a dismal 30th in math in the most recent results of the Program for International Student Assessment, an exam testing 15-year-olds every three years.
Mainland China bested every other country in all three subject areas out of all the 79 countries tested.
Why is this happening?
No doubt in large part because more than half of Gen Zers spend four or more hours on social media every single day, per a December 2022 survey from business-intelligence company Morning Consult.
The survey also found 93% of boys ages 13 to 25 in the United States have YouTube accounts, and 62% are on Chinese-owned TikTok, while 84% of young women are active YouTube users and 75% have TikTok accounts.
What are they watching?
The Post’s Asia Grace investigated, posing as a 15-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl on Youtube and TikTok.
As a teen girl, Grace was fed a toxic algorithmic diet of content glamorizing underage binge drinking, violence against women and memes about depression and mental illnesses.
This no doubt impacted the results of a disturbing government report last month showing most teen girls (57%) felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, double the rate for teen boys (29%). Nearly one in three teen girls seriously considered attempting suicide.
The algorithms provided Grace, when she was pretending to be a teen boy, with online personality Andrew Tate laughing at the thought of stoning a Muslim woman to death for standing up to her husband, as well as content discussing killing orphans and hanging black people.
