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
tbh the bad am*rican literacy rate could explain why so many arguments on hexbear get so out of hand
I have seen a few arguments here and there where people have just seemingly refused to analyse what the other person has said and has just gotten mad at something they assumed they said. That is much more common elsewhere on the internet though.
I haven't experienced it here at all so I don't know about that. I just think hexbears are spicy and extra catty when getting into disagreements.
Yeah I don't think it's just a bias because I am one, I think it's safe to say that the average hexbear is significantly more well-read and educated than the average American. But that doesn't mean miscommunication isn't a common occurrence here too, even specifically miscommunication due to someone not taking the time to really read and parse a comment. It's happened to me several times and I don't even comment all that much, but I see it often enough when just lurking. Not always during disagreements either, though the anger that can flare when there are disagreements makes it much more likely to happen.
¿Por qué no los dos?