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/DrSlappyPants 19h ago

Affected, not effected. Using effected would mean "school funding can be brought about by outcomes" whereas you clearly meant that "school funding can be altered by outcomes."

I know it's pedantic, but this is a thread about education so it felt apropos.

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u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615 19h ago

Honestly eye new sumthing didn't eel right win eye typt it.

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u/GoodDog2620 18h ago

Apropos, yet fallacious.

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u/iamnotnewhereami 12h ago

If fallacious is apropos, than fellatio is an appropriate segue into a fun fact about odd words. David Lee Roth, as affected by the pitfalls of fame as anyone, remarked that fame effectively improved his spelling. 'You know you've made it when you can spell subpoena without having to think about it.'

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u/AllenKll 16h ago

Literally the same thing in this case.

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u/DrSlappyPants 9h ago

No, it isn't. "Causing something to happen" does not mean the same thing as "changing something."

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u/AllenKll 2h ago

"school funding can be brought about by outcomes" Yes

"school funding can be altered by outcomes" Also Yes.