Not only in your country, also here in the Philippines, reading and comprehension becoming poor for today's generation. And the culprits are as follows;

First, parenting style. Parents of these generation has the entitlement mentality. They are depending the teaching of there children to a teacher. Instead of teaching there child home, they go find a tutorial instead. Unlike in my time, I remember back in the day that everyday before I go play outside with friends. I need to read one story out loud in front of my parents. Answering all the question and they also made a custom question base on that story. Now I didn't see those kind of parenting.

Second, the pediatrician advice. I remember when my child, aged 4, our pediatrician told us, that a parent should not teach the child about academic, instead parents should focus teaching child on building characters and how they blend in the community.

Lastly, the Law. Back in the day, our teacher always bring in meter stick with them. If your not pay attention to the teaching, teacher back in the day will hit your butt with meter stick. These act of teacher are acceptable and permitted by parents during that time. Which is I think has a positive effect.

Also, technology has a big contributions to these problems. Most of the children on these generation depend more on technology and give most of their time on screen. Unlike in my time, I need to go to the public Library doing my research work. Now I my niece doing assignment with the AI, them use another AI to humanized it.

Maybe, children of these generation should be deal with the new technique of teaching. Since our education system didn't evolve. The style of teaching remains the same as it was 100 years ago.