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From an 11th Grade Teacher at a good suburban high school
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:35 am
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:35 am
"Your children can’t read. We are in the midst of one of the greatest literacy crises ever encountered, and we are fighting an uphill battle. Every day I experience firsthand what it means to be illiterate in a high school classroom. At best it means sleeping away a unit; at worst it means depression or aggression. Average students with average abilities can fervently text away, but they cannot read."
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Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:36 am to anc
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fervently
Googling
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:37 am to anc
How is one able to write without being able to read?
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:38 am to anc
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fervently text away, but they cannot read."
Wait.....what? How would they know what they're typing?
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:38 am to anc
quote:
erage students with average abilities can fervently text away, but they cannot read."
Unls dey meen texing lik dis.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:39 am to pioneerbasketball
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quote:
fervently
Googling
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:39 am to anc
If they can't read how to the know what to text?
This sounds like b.s.
Also, you're a teacher. How bout doing some teaching instead of posting on Facebook about how tough your job is.
This sounds like b.s.
Also, you're a teacher. How bout doing some teaching instead of posting on Facebook about how tough your job is.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:39 am to anc
quote:I'd think back around when half of the country couldn't read would be much worse. This person is greatly exaggerating. Not that it's not an issue, but to call it one of the greatest literacy crises ever encountered? Please
We are in the midst of one of the greatest literacy crises ever encountered
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:40 am to anc
And colleges will continue to dumb down their curriculums while raising tuition so that the dumb kids can get in so that they keep hitting their money and enrollment numbers.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:41 am to anc
Well we just don't have much time for reading anymore.
33% of the curriculum has to be devoted toward critical thinking exercises for remedial students, another third to figuring out what gender students should be, and the last third is spent memorizing every incident that occurred during the civil rights movement.
33% of the curriculum has to be devoted toward critical thinking exercises for remedial students, another third to figuring out what gender students should be, and the last third is spent memorizing every incident that occurred during the civil rights movement.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:41 am to Henry Jones Jr
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I'd think back around when half of the country couldn't read would be much worse. This person is greatly exaggerating. Not that it's not an issue, but to call it one of the greatest literacy crises ever encountered? Please
hyperbole from a public school teacher? shocking
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:42 am to Pettifogger
The 4th third is devoted to math, though.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:43 am to fr33manator
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How is one able to write without being able to read?
ri8ing lk dis 2 ur :friendemoji: and reading are completely separate.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:43 am to anc
I once interviewed for a high school teaching job in south Alabama. The principal's first question was how did I intend to improve my student's reading levels since almost every student was two years behind in reading. This was for an upper level economics class.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:43 am to OysterPoBoy
she's slightly exaggerating and i wouldn't call it a "great literacy crisis", but the kids in high school and middle school do have an uphill battle ahead of them if they want to be functioning members of society.
my old lady teaches middle school math in inner city Houston. One of the better schools as well. And half of her kids can't grasp simple concepts like multiplication tables, fractions, and graphing. After it being taught to them for years and her fellow teachers and her reteaching it this year.
They don't care. Their parents don't care. And the test scores show it.
my old lady teaches middle school math in inner city Houston. One of the better schools as well. And half of her kids can't grasp simple concepts like multiplication tables, fractions, and graphing. After it being taught to them for years and her fellow teachers and her reteaching it this year.
They don't care. Their parents don't care. And the test scores show it.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:44 am to fr33manator
Bcuz twitter haz takn ova n err1 rites liek dis
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:44 am to anc
This is why I live in Katy, TX, my kids are doing science labs and learning how to do research and structure a research paper in elementary school.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:44 am to fr33manator
quote:Who said anything about writing?
How is one able to write without being able to read?
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:44 am to anc
maybe instead of attention whoring it up this teacher should walk across the hall to ask the literature teachers what's up and why aren't they doing their jobs?
Posted on 10/8/15 at 8:44 am to anc
quote:
From an 11th Grade Teacher
I know there's some blame to go to the parents if it's this bad at age 17....but um, shouldn't most of her ire be directed at the teachers 10 grades before now that never addressed this issue?
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