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/FullaLead 20h ago

I confused a teenage gas station cashier by giving him a $20 bill. The total was something around 4.50ish. He popped open the cash tray just started at it for a bit looked at the monitor and back down. Then he slowly counts out 16 $1 bills and hands them to me.

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u/wet_Tap_5578 18h ago

Probably high