These days, the disastrous results obtained by students in the Spanish state in the PISA tests are on everyone's lips. It is true that the trend has not been positive for years, but rather the exact opposite; however, there is one issue that is especially alarming: reading comprehension. For years, the educational system has been balancing between constant legislative changes, pedagogical experiments, budget cuts, and forced digitalization without achieving the desired results. All this paraphernalia has overshadowed a fundamental issue: schools no longer guarantee that students know how to read and write. Degrees are given away and students are passed to the next grade to gloss over a terrifying reality, which is that every year the system spits out students with an ESO degree in their hand that is useless for anything other than allowing the government of the day to exempt itself from the responsibility of having a high school dropout rate. Students with an ESO degree unable to hold a basic level conversation in Catalan; students with an ESO degree who do not know how to place the continents on a map; students with an ESO degree who do not know what a percentage is; students with an ESO degree who cannot link two sentences in English and now, with you all, the icing on the cake: students with an ESO—or high school—degree who do not understand what they read. Unfortunately, it seems that the system is no longer designed to educate children, but to keep them while their parents are at work.