{
  "id": 6381938,
  "title": "Los suspendidos",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/los-suspendidos",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-09T03:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais",
    "slug": "el-pais",
    "url": "https://elpais.com/opinion/2026-09-09/los-suspendidos.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "The disappointing results of the PISA report on Spanish students' academic levels have led many to speculate that the adults criticizing them in the media have been penned by AI. It seems that they have outsourced the criticism to digital domestic servants, targeting those lazy, illiterate children. I haven't done so myself, but I certainly wouldn't mind joining in. This isn't to absolve the students, but rather to point out that the blame should be spread: they are products of their time, and that time has been shaped and encouraged by adults. For instance, we've never read so many words yet taken in so little information: WhatsApp, TikTok, Google, headlines, subtitles, chats, tweets, Instagram captions - we can spend a half-day reading without lifting a finger to build any mental architecture. In a perverse way, we've confused literacy with simply having texts in front of us. This is a weighty political issue: for years, the educational conversation has focused on what to teach (those fickle political swings producing erratic education laws) when the more relevant question seems to be whether anyone is prepared to learn it. One could debate curricula, homework, or exams, but if a person, be it a child or not, cannot endure 15 minutes of intellectual complexity, the debate is above the problem.",
  "summary": "No quiero eximir a los alumnos, sino más bien extender la culpa: son hijos de su tiempo, construido y fomentado por adultos",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}