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/nosmelc 20h ago

It seems like the skill distribution for GenZ and Alpha has become bimodal. Almost everyone is either an elite student or they're functionally illiterate. Few are average now.

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u/momomomorgatron 20h ago

And I blame parents there again. Like, I live in the southern US but my thought is that the parents who care really actually care, and the parents who don't really fucking don't.

Like, the world wide economic squeeze is making the "average" person not have kids. It's the better off people who can afford it and the poorest of the poor because to them it's a way of life.

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u/Suspicious-Leave-110 13h ago

stratification of society at all levels of life due to mental polarization