A high school English teacher took to social media to share his concerns about the state of education in the U.S. He was brought to tears as he revealed that in his class, he has seniors who cannot write a single sentence.
“I literally broke down in the middle of class because I’m teaching seniors,” he shared. “These kids are leaving high school and going to college, hopefully, after they finish.”
“We had two paragraphs to read, one sentence, complete, to write. I gave them the sentence stems. I basically completed the sentence for them in the model.”
“These are 17 and 18-year-old kids, and they couldn’t fill in four words. Four words.”
“I gave them the scenario. We annotated together. I gave them the answers before we even had the problem.”
“And they couldn’t do it.”
“I don’t know. I simply don’t know where the problem is.”
Hellbound and Down 