Are Aussie kids dumber than they've ever been?

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Are Aussie kids dumber than they've ever been? #breakingnews #australia #children #education A damning international report card from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has revealed that Australian teenagers are now recording their worst mathematics, reading, and science scores on record. According to the study, the average 15-year-old in Australia is now two and a half years behind students of the same age in the early 2000s, trailing peers in 67 other participating countries. Experts like Blaise Joseph from the Centre for Independent Studies point to screen addiction, plummeting attention spans, and disruptive, noisy classrooms—which cost students up to 12 weeks of learning time every single year—as primary drivers of the collapse. Remarkably, this rapid academic decline comes despite a 27% real per-student increase in public school funding over the past decade, sparking urgent calls to overhaul classroom discipline and early literacy programs. Con

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