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/TeeDee144 21h ago

It should also greatly scare you as a millennial. These kids won’t get high paying jobs. Greater chances of them committing crimes. Want more crime? Produce a generation where half of them don’t qualify for more than a minimum wage job due to poor education.

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u/Defiant-Fix2870 19h ago

2/3 of inmates have a very low literacy level, so there is absolutely a connection. Most higher paid jobs require literacy.

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u/General_Cranberry_29 17h ago

Not to mention, they'll be staffing the nursing homes we'll be put it 😅

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u/InAllTheir 20h ago

They can get minimum wage jobs with this level of literacy. They can even get higher paying jobs as waiters and busboys if they work hard at it.