Watch: When Asked to Read Short Sentences, HS Students at One of Philly's Most Diverse Schools Collapse
By Michael Schwarz
May 4, 2026 at 1:29pm
Besides enriching themselves, America’s leadership class has failed at everything, including their promises to educate young people.
In a pair of viral videos posted on the social media platform TikTok, students at Philadelphia’s Preparatory Charter School of Mathematics, Science, Technology and Careers — one of Pennsylvania’s “most diverse schools,” per the New York Post — struggled either to read a simple sentence or to make sense of it in their own words.
The first video, posted by TikTok user “whatthevek,” featured students who could not read the following sentence: “She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche.”
All five students stumbled on the words “silhouette,” “extraordinary,” and “gauche.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-asked-read-short-sentences-hs-students-one-phillys-diverse-schools-collapse/
