A significant percentage studentswhich exceeds 20% at the completion of compulsory education, faces serious difficulties in understanding school written language and to an even greater extent in the production of written language.

Corresponding findings are also recorded for Mathematics, with the difficulties not being purely mathematical, but also linguistic.

Essentially, Kathimerini reports on Saturday, one in five children is in danger of graduating from High school functionally illiterate.

What does this mean? He will not be able to adequately understand spoken and written language, formulate his thinking clearly, make deductive associations, develop critical thinking, take advantage of opportunities to improve his cognitive skills, as UNESCO defines functional illiteracy.

This is pointed out in annual report of the Authority for Quality Assurance in Primary and Secondary Education (ADIPPDE) for 2024.

This is a marking that resulted from the analysis of the results of the diagnostic tests carried out in the 6th Grade of Primary School and the 3rd Grade of High School in recent years in the subjects of Language and Mathematics.

The report even suggests that the age limit for enrollment in the First Class of Primary School in the country be re-examined.