School has changed a lot since many parents were young. And it’s not just the technology. Though many kids now do most of their assignments on a school-issued laptop, while we were lucky to play a few minutes of The Oregon Trail on an Apple IIc, there’s more to it than that.

School is different in ways many of us can’t quite put our fingers on.

Educator and content creator points out hidden reason school feels ‘off’

Jamie Ruffner is an educator, former teacher, and education content creator with a social media audience of over 60,000. In an Instagram Reel, she explored a question she’s been hearing a lot from teachers and parents alike.

“Why does school feel so off lately?” she asked in the video. “How is it possible it’s changed this much since we were kids?”

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“You really wanna know?” she said, playing two roles in the sketch. “I went down a rabbit hole. In 1983, a report, federally funded, mind you, called ‘A Nation at Risk.’”

Ruffner explained that the report said schools were failing and pointed to falling SAT scores as one major red flag. Its findings sparked a national panic about the state of public schools.

Commissioned by President Ronald Reagan’s Department of Education in 1983, the final report cited a “rising tide of mediocrity” and claimed that U.S. students were falling........

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