"Is your bed a constellation? Is it Friday?"Students' literacy is "serious."

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A survey found that nine out of 10 teachers recognize that "students' literacy has declined compared to the past."

The Korean Federation of Teachers' Associations conducted a survey of 5,848 elementary, middle, and high school teachers nationwide ahead of the 578th Hangul Day. .

According to the results of the survey released on the 7th, 91.8% of the respondents said that students' literacy was "lower" than in the past when asked, "How are students' literacy compared to the past?" Fifty-three percent of respondents said they were "degraded" and 39 percent said they were "very degraded."

When asked about cases where the students were in trouble due to lack of literacy, there were absurd cases such as "the sixth grade doesn't know the meaning of the name," "I thought my hair was two legs while discussing the liberalization of my hair," "I think of my bedside as a constellation," and "I know Jokbo as a set of jokbal bossam."

A teacher said, "I said it was the starting point of the incident, and the teacher told me if I was swearing." 始 點 is a word that refers to the starting point. Another teacher answered, "Some students mistook today for Friday," "I don't know what blood ties are in the first year of high school," "I was shocked to not know that a third-year middle school student was the capital city," and "I was at a loss when a high school senior asked me what wind power was."

Another teacher said, "I don't understand the word degradation in explaining the deterioration of performance, and I think it's a degradation used to refer to a king and queen, and I don't understand the context before and after."

Teachers cited "overuse of digital media such as smartphones and games" (36.5%) as the top reason for the decline in student literacy. The survey was followed by "lack of reading" (29.2%), "lack of vocabulary" (17.1%), and "lack of knowledge acquisition education" (13.1%).

"Deterioration in literacy not only reduces learning ability, but can also negatively affect interpersonal relationships and social life after becoming an adult in the future," an official at the Korea Federation of Teachers' Association said. "Starting with a national diagnosis and analysis of student literacy, measures should be taken to strengthen laws and systems to solve the problem of overdependence and overuse of digital devices, reading and writing activities."

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team