AM Show Hr 3 | Literacy Crisis, Perverse Incentives & The Cost of Bad Policy

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.5	It's that time.
0:09.4	Lock and load.
0:12.8	The Michael Derry Show is on the air.
0:16.0	Hello, baby.
0:22.6	A high school student
0:24.6	in Philadelphia.
0:26.6	Exposed his classmates
0:29.0	and the fact that they're
0:32.1	practically illiterate,
0:35.5	unable,
0:36.7	or at least struggling mightily, to read very basic words, to comprehend relatively simple sentences.
0:47.3	In a viral series of videos on TikTok, he's done this.
0:52.6	It's amazing. A picture is worth a thousand words, but a moving picture, an actual video.
1:01.3	Not a single of his high school age peers was able to read the sentence.
1:10.3	She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary, but somewhat gauche.
1:18.4	Listen to this.
1:19.7	It is heartbreaking and disappointing, but frankly, not exactly shocking.
1:30.2	Read that in this car for me.
1:31.5	She wore a suit clothes that were...
1:36.3	Who's this for?
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