I'm sorry but a child reaching freshmen year with their documentation that shows they are developmentally at a third grade level for reading and writing is unteachable. I know that may be a crazy opinion but I've never seen it this bad till this year.
Half a co-taught class developmentally 6 years behind where they should be. My co-teacher is losing their mind. I'm losing my mind. We're doing stories that are 3 pages long and they forget what was 1 paragraph before. They don't know how to operate a google document. Many have lost their homework sheets in their folder less book bags.
I don't even really know the other half of my class since I have no time to talk to the students who are demonstrating the basic ability to follow a 2 step direction since I'm busy putting the fire extinguisher to other half who seemingly have never been told to do anything their entire life.
I cannot scaffold things any lower without it literally being a third grade level class. One child literally had documentation showing they don't understand that stories begin and end.
Our biggest challenge of the year so far was writing a singular scaffolded paragraph with sentence starters based off a short story. Multiple paragraphs contained characters that simply did not exist in the story.
I'm losing my brain
As the joke goes: before the re-education camps we need education camps
"We can't teach communist theory to people who can't even read a short pamphlet."
"The Commies just want everyone to know how to read so that they can make you read communist propaganda! Reading is for flithy pinkos!" - Something I'd be unsurprised to hear an American media outlet say.
This is literally a copy pasta. Some dipshit brags about how his illiterate grandfather is the biggest anti communist he knows.
I've seen the copypasta. I'd be unsurprised to hear an American conservative unironically spout it, though.
Not in those exact words, but Ive read articles claiming the high literacy rates are so people can be indoctrinated, and that's why Cuba has such high voter turnouts
Well, when you have democracy that works and people who feel like voting does something, you get good voter turnout! (Or you can just do like Australia does and make it mandatory to show up. Which led to Democracy Sausages, which is neat, but people are still going to just turn in a spoiled ballot if they don't think voting will do any good.)
If literacy rates are so linked to voter turnout, sounds like America needs some literacy programs. But no, they don't decide to bemoan American illiteracy, they just start accusing Cuba of nonsensical bullshit recycled from Cold War accusations thrown at the Soviets, because the Red Scare never ended, baby!
Are communists, or anarchists for that matter, even capable of making their pamphlets short, though?
Yeah, sadly the PuagerU people have nothing to worry about :/
That's a good point. Communists, in general, are not known for being short-spoken or to-the-point.