From an 11th Grade Teacher at a good suburban high school

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fervently text away, but they cannot read."

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Wait.....what? How would they know what they're typing?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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From an 11th Grade Teacher

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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?

I don't remember knowing hardly anything until Kindergarten.

Now to get into schools your poor kid has to be tested in...I'm tutoring my 4 year old nightly on words and writing.

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Average students with average abilities can fervently text away, but they cannot read."

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hmm - they can read, but they lack understanding. They don't have the capacity for complex thought. And they certainly cannot write.

I taught high school math for 12 years, mostly at the junior and senior levels, and found you had to be really careful in writing out instructions. And having a scientific background, I was pretty good at being precise in my writing. I found I had to include 'this does not mean ______" statement to guard against stupid interpretations.

However, when I asked them to perform a project and write their results in report form, it was really a useless endeavor. They just could not grasp the concepts of describing a process, presenting the data, and explaining conclusions. It was maddening.

I taught 11th grade English at a terrible inner city hs in Tulsa in 2009.
I could not assign reading assignments to my kids because they could not read. I literally had to read to this kids every class.
These kids were not dumb, they were illiterate.


Six years at LSU did not prepare me for what I encountered.
I quit after a semester.

Ask yourself this question:
How do kids get to the 11th grade without being able to read?