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
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
This is the exact reason why so many meetings and phone calls have to happen even though it can be resolved through a short email chain. It’s because they literally can’t follow an email that’s more than 3 sentences.