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
I have noticed the "admin is worthless and the system forces wastes of time and resources and fails all the kids" posts. Those are good. I do understand the venting. It's just that... I have seen some posts there where they seem mad at parents who stand up for their kids and lump truly right ones in with "My Little Johnny can do no wrong!" ones, and mad at admin who won't let them mistreat a "problem child" in even more egregious ways than they're already getting away with or remove that child from their classroom (they never care where that child would go, just "I need him Not Here"), and stuff where... they're mad that they're expected to have complete control over things they're not given effective tools to affect in any way. Which is sometimes an obvious admin fail that they correctly blame admin or partially misblame parents for, and sometimes control freak behavior from admin that they're angry at both the admin and the students for.
It's very possible I'm seeing a lot of it come off a lot worse than it was intended, just because I was on the receiving end of in class explosions by fed up and just plain abusive teachers and support staff a lot as a kid.