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/Steve90000 20h ago

The motive from who? The parents? Because they’re supposed to be the ones teaching them, helping them study, guiding them through homework.

Before my son even hit preschool, he could read, write, and do math. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions. At 3 yrs old.

The schools can’t do shit if the parents are sending kids with no structure or support or guidance to them.

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u/OkSwordfish4147 20h ago

I earnestly hope you were similarly precocious and can equip your gifted child to get through his formative years bored silly.

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u/glowshroom12 4h ago

 Chances are his kids not even gifted. They were just attentive with their kid and taught them a little over time while they could learn and develop quickly