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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

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] boboblaw@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

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.