Anonymous #1 4w

in my school we literally cant bc they won’t read. i assigned them 4 pages of the outsiders and they couldnt do it. i swear it really is the parents and that damn phone

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Anonymous OP 4w

CRYINGGGGG what about like reading it aloud in class? are their brains too shot to even have them pay attention for tht?

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Anonymous #2 4w

reading logs were dead serious in my day

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Anonymous OP 4w

the star reading tests 😩

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Anonymous OP 4w

deadass bring it back

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Anonymous #1 4w

they don’t get through it really well. its hard for them to read casually its like a robot kinda “ and.. then he.. wanted.. to.. go to the.. movies “ like bro cmon u read tik tok comments fast as hell ik u do

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Anonymous #2 4w

i wish i could but i fear their parents would burn me at the stake. its like they dont want to see them succeed

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Anonymous OP 4w

this is.... horrifying. deadass how are these people ever suppose to have JOBS in the future?? companies won't have competent people to run them

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Anonymous #1 4w

i just beg of all of our generation if they have kids to PLEASE take this seriously. the government loves illiterate children bc they wont fight them as adults so they’ll never push for more reading but this is getting embarrassing.

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Anonymous OP 4w

i blame no child left behind. good concept in theory but it’s pushing kids to the next grade that should be held back

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Anonymous #2 4w

and the parents too. i can’t say their kid is struggling without them coming at my throat and saying i should teach better. like maam this is 12th grade why am i teaching ur 18 yo how to sound out words?

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Anonymous OP 4w

in 6th grade i was sat next to a girl who couldn’t say “the”. my jaw dropped when we did popcorn reading cause she was so fucking slow at reading it pissed me off

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Anonymous OP 4w

100000%. i can't imagine abandoning the blueprint of tons of small books for kids to read, toys that teach reading, and toys that get a kids imagination creating their own stories 😭😭😭 thank fucking god i grew up in the generation i did

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Anonymous #1 4w

those millennial moms giving their kids gray and brown toys were the start of the end…

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Anonymous #2 4w

needed to be held back. 70% of my kids shouldve been. but now im being forced to “just help them graduate “ like bro they are not going to university if they can’t read. what do u not understand????? omgg

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Anonymous OP 4w

i think the downfall of education was the chromebooks for every student fr. kids nowadays think that 5 paragraphs in an hour is too much. that’s 25 sentences hello???

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Anonymous #2 4w

we have like a monitoring thing where i can see what tabs are open and they literally are using chat right next to their vocab assignments. cant even write a simple definition. cant write an essay unless i help them with sentence frames / starters. cant do anything

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Anonymous OP 4w

i work as a special ed para at my high school so obviously very different from mainstream classes. i’m grateful our school blocked chatgpt so students can’t use it but i still see some students just googling answers and not taking the time to learn or ask questions themselves

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Anonymous #2 4w

sooo lazy bc their attention spans are fried

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Anonymous OP 4w

when i was in hs (graduated 21) we were allowed to have our phones out on our desks with no problems as long as we weren’t using it. if we were doing independent work we could have an airpod in for music and some teacher would even let us listen to our own music during exams. i would never consider letting students nowadays do that. it’s crazy how much schools have changed in just a few years

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Anonymous #2 4w

we’re from the same class and had the same thing. theyre not that much younger then us the seniors and their hs life has been completely different bc they can’t handle anything.

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Anonymous OP 4w

it’s only a 5 year difference which is nothing in the grand scheme of things. covid stunted those students development socially and academically and why i believe they’re so attached to screens now. their most prominent years to develop were spent locked on the house with the only way to do school and communicate with others was online

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