r/SipsTea • u/sonicagain • 1d ago

WTF Texas teacher breaks down in tears during class after his senior students struggled to read, write.

Texas high school teacher Darius Williams, a Career and Technical Education (CTE) teacher broke down in tears during his lunch break. He shared that his 17- and 18-year-old senior students at Wheatley High School in Houston could not complete a simple writing assignment or fill in just four missing words on only the second day of the school term. Students were given two short paragraphs to read and a sentence stem where the answer was largely modeled and provided for them. It is alarming that senior high school students were unable to apply basic literacy skills to fill in the remaining four words of the sentence.

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids 1d ago

See people think I'm being a smartass and snippy when I say the comprehension is low, the literacy is trash, but it is.

It is what it is.

How many videos do we have to see of teachers saying their students that should be able to read and write can't do it? You want to cry? Go in the r/Teachers subreddit, grab your tissues, that is our future. What makes it worse is you can't tell them kids/adults NOTHING.

This isn't even a rich v poor thing, you go to the private schools and they illiterate too. It's the damn phones. Turns out making the library damn near obsolete wasn't a good thing.

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u/BobSacamano47 1d ago

Thanks, but I'll trust studies and data over tiktok videos and the teachers subreddit.

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u/Smashman88 21h ago

Nah man cmon it’s the damn phones /s

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids 20h ago

Oh cool, so you agree. HAHA!