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’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
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.
lmao, I’m pretty sure the ESL students were held to a higher standard. the difficulty had a noticeable dropoff after I got out of ESL—suddenly it didn’t matter so much if you knew how to spell “restaurant”.
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
Yes exactly. People have been using “well meaning progressivism is actually racism” bad faith arguments forever
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.
isn’t it literally equitable if it’s targeted?
I’ll play devil’s advocate and say that there are plenty of teachers, especially white ones, who take one look at Latino ELL students and just throw up their hands and insist on services because they insist there’s a disability. “They can’t do anything” is a phrase I’ve heard many times. But the solution to that isn’t to discontinue the availability of services. It’s to insist on high quality data for referrals and educate teachers on how to provide that data. When done well, yes, this is equitable.