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
Wtf are kids thinking like chatgpt now? This is so scary.
That also sounds like the sort of shit I would write as a kid just to fuck with a teacher I didn't like, to see if they were even paying attention. And if they're posting on reddit about how dumb and terrible their students are, they probably have a lot of students who don't like them and just want to fuck with them.
Having used AI story bots, I've not had an issue of new characters that aren't meant to exist. I've had a lot of issues of characters in theory leaving the scene and then hey right back in it. And forced appearances of other people who are in the story, but definitely shouldn't be bursting in immediately.