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"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.

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.

The school admin is trying to save money and the user prefers to blame "woke" or the user is lying

isn't it literally equitable if it's targeted?

1/5 adults in the US apparently cannot read and understand simple bullet list instructions, according to this post

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

If I were to guess, these kids aren’t trying because businessmen aren’t trying anymore. The whole point of education is for jobs, and employers have proudly announced time and time again just how satisfied they are with the workers they got, they don’t even need to make jobs anymore.

These younger students likely know many older siblings or cousins that did go through college and are now basement dwellers because no one’s hiring. Ergo, why would they take school seriously if even when you do well, you’ll be treated like you failed? Same logic why we have so little people actively trying to become actors in Hollywood, because only a tiny 0.000001% of the people that go for it will be successful. Now all industries have the Hollywood logic: if you’re not a nepo baby, forget it you’ll be lucky to even wash dishes no matter how well you do.

TL;DR: With business owners just kicking back and refusing to ever lift a finger to put people to work, even children understand that they’re doomed and react to this nihilistic culture.

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.

this one sounds like long covid, the kid that doesn't know stories begin or end is either fake or sequel fatigue

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.

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.

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".