Multiple paragraphs contained characters that simply did not exist in the story.
Wtf are kids thinking like chatgpt now? This is so scary.
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r/teachers is a place for people who hate children to make up stories about how the youth are completely stupid and irredeemable and it is all their fault for being lazy kids on their tiktoks and fortnites. I wouldn't trust it to be any more based in reality than r/nosleep.
It is not uncommon for me to have situations when talking to americans where it is obvious that their reading comprehension is very very bad. I'm not talking about political conversations, just general conversations I might have in gaming forums, movie forums, discords, etc.
I've long since gotten in the habit of trying to rephrase and restate the core point I'm trying to get across multiple times when talking in general and generally to avoid making any sentence hinge on a single word to be interpreted correctly since even people who are literate tend to skim text and miss key words. I don't always remember or succeed though: even here I had one particular old power poster blow up on me on several occasions when we were actually in agreement, because he missed a key word and reversed the meaning of what I was saying.
Oh now that you mention it I have seen that situation occur here where people miss one word and don't realise they actually agree with each other. I may even be guilty of that myself though tbh.
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.
If 1/12th of what they say in that sub is true, it's terrifying
I hate that sub. Half of it is this kind of doomposting, the other half is utter hatred for children and teenagers, it's such an interesting example of "you start to hate the people directly under you in the class system once you get a tiny bit of power to oppress someone who has no recourse".
It's just the teacher version of retail workers venting about customers.
Teaching is a hard job with no pay that requires a uni degree to do. There's a baseline assumption that everyone who's in it is in it because they care deeply about educating children. And schools are usually set up in such a way that they're not really able to do that properly. And they see that every day and it hurts. The teacher version of "the customer is always right" is Solely Positive Regard. No matter what a kid does in the classroom a teacher (should) be trying to make sure that the kid still thinks the teacher thinks the world of them, and their parents should think the same and teachers (should) keep their cool in the classroom at all times. And that's just not sustainable 24/7. Like retail workers the repressed frustration from being patient and caring and giving 8 hours a day 5 days a week gets vented in situations where it's safe to do so. Teachers generally live in the community they teach and parents in the community are as much (often more) a "customer" as the kids are, often more, so only their families and other teachers (usually) get to see this.
The vast majority of teachers don't hate kids. If they did they wouldn't stay teachers, f you read that thread closely the vast majority of these comments aren't contemptous, they're saying "I wish I had time/capacity/permission to teach this kid in the way I know they need to be taught. The way I have to teach them is an actively harmful waste of my, theirs and all my other students time".
What's crazy to me about this thread (reddit), is the amount of posters that aren't typing at a teachers writing level...
How you type isn't necessarily a good reflection of your writing level, particularly in the case of touchscreen-based comments on forums.
I work with grad students and recently had some do an exercise where they had to do a short assessment with spell check turned off and no Internet connection. Only one performed at what I'd consider a reasonable undergraduate level. It's not looking great out there.
maybe this is the dyslexia speaking, but i really think that spelling and being able to comprehend a text are two skills of massively different importance. relying on spell check and/or phonetic estimations can serve you perfectly fine in almost all situations and changes nothing, whereas being functionally illiterate makes your life more hollow
I was pretty forgiving of the typos, the thing that bothered me was the lack of structure and coherence in the responses.
Really have to love the solidarity you all are showing. We wonder why teachers are treated like absolute dogshit.
The teachers in that sub sure as hell don't deserve solidarity. A handful of the posts are like this one, most of them and an even higher proportion of the comments are just pure hatred of the children and teens under their care and responsibility.
If the revolution ever happens in the US we will need Cuban style literacy programs in every corner of the country.
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.
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 :/
This is literally a copy pasta. Some dipshit brags about how his illiterate grandfather is the biggest anti communist he knows.
Education is bad, but r/teachers is not real
i used to take amazon returns at a retailer and iirc the official stats are an abysmal like 1/7 adults in my state being functionally illiterate but based on my time helping people through what's a really brainlessly simple return process I would believe it's closer to 1/5 or 1/4, like people staring at their phones like a westworld android just not seeing what's in front of them. I understood having to deal with the elderly being overwhelmed by it but there were innumerable younger people too who I'd have to help to such a degree that "these people can't read" is the likeliest explanation
and this is just like reading steps like "take this to a UPS and show them this QR code" not like parsing paragraphs of story
Every E-Mail Job I have the amount of people who can process any text longer than about 3 sentences is shockingly low. like 20% at the max.
Like some parts of it is "I don't care", sure, but the amount of meetings I've had where I basically just spent an hour explaining about one page of text to some people is shocking
1/5 adults in the US apparently cannot read and understand simple bullet list instructions, according to this post
89% of western adults cannot read books written for adults.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241210/dq241210a-eng.htm
Where are you getting that from this post? I'm seeing a lot of levels and scores but not what those scores mean in terms of ability. 89% seems high unless you mean like scientific journals or something
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I'm gonna be real, the thing that actually scares me is how many teachers are redditers, if I had suspected any of my teachers were posting on reddit, I'd have pretended not to know how to read just to enjoy the aggravation
Our school got rid of reading intervention because is racist and inequitable, apparently. Since latino students were disproportionately in intervention I guess it means that wanting to give targeted supports to them is actually a racist plot or something.
See what I mean
People always shit on the Hispanic kids but those dudes knew like 3 languages where I was growing up. People thought they were stupid for not knowing all the English rules even though their speech was fluent. No, you just hate them for being better at language than you and cause you're racist.
this was my experience in HS too, latino kids in french got shit on by our professor because they could already sus out the conjugation and gender of words before most people and when they'd maybe get it wrong instead of corrections like the valley girl chick would get they got scolded.
My first question was why the kids weren’t getting reading intervention en masse. What is this bullshit about ELL students getting services being inequitable?
The school admin is trying to save money and the user prefers to blame "woke" or the user is lying
It's more than people consider any program that disproportionately serves people of color as racist against white people, but they've learned to borrow DEI language to obfuscate.
Yes exactly. People have been using "well meaning progressivism is actually racism" bad faith arguments forever
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Our biggest challenge of the year so far was writing a singular scaffolded paragraph with sentence starters based off a short story.
I taught 11th grade students this 5 years before covid and it was nearly impossible then, too. I'm sure it's more impossible now, but "the kids these days" have never liked doing school
friendly reminder that everything on reddit is fake
Except for how much the teachers on that sub hate the children they teach, especially the ones that aren't white. So much racism disguised as "ELL is a waste of resources" and the like.
Western illiteracy is well documented though.
Skill issue.
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