Student reading deficiencies are becoming a generational problem

The numbers regarding reading ability should be shocking to everyone.

A library in Scott’s Run is pictured in 1936. The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress reports showed both fourth graders and eighth graders in West Virginia scored the lowest reading scores ever. Courtesy photo/Work Projects Administration

Of all the pastimes the older folks among us acquire a taste for, concerning themselves with what the next generation of children will make of themselves is always in fashion. The habit of fretting, cajoling, or pontificating about those…