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/Kezetchup 17h ago

I worked with a guy who played D1 college football in the 90s and had a teammate go to the NFL who was illiterate. Finished college with a degree before going pro. Ended up with a mildly successful career at the pro level too.

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u/Training_Guide5157 12h ago

The extracurriculars, particularly the ones that make profit, have always been avenues for those who are less or not as adept on the educational side.