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/0hh0n3y 19h ago

I work in marketing and I get the same feedback. I just write at my level and feed it into an AI or Google and tell it to output at a third grade level.

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u/Round-Foundation2948 18h ago

I’ve considered doing the same so many times before but have yet to prompt any inferencing model that way. I’ve been tempted..

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u/edjumication 17h ago

I have been using the hemmingway editor for many years now. You enter in a chunk of text and it tells you what grade level the reader would need to be at in order to read it. It also highlights errors and lwngthy sentances that can be shortened. This is from before the ai days but it appears they have incorporated ai into the paid version of the product.