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re: Teacher warns about kids' illiteracy today
Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:36 am to prplhze2000
Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:36 am to prplhze2000
Her purple hair notwithstanding, she's right. I was talking last night to a education professor at UGA. Most of her students are kids with 1400 SATs and 10 AP classes to their names, but they can't answer open ended questions. They can only figure out multiple choice tests. They can no answer anything that requires critical thinking. They know how to jump through hoops and take standardized tests because that's what they've been taught.
You wonder what happened to kids? Bush junior fricked us all over with No Child Left Behind and the Patriot Act. While his dad was busy eating babies, he was destroying our future.
You wonder what happened to kids? Bush junior fricked us all over with No Child Left Behind and the Patriot Act. While his dad was busy eating babies, he was destroying our future.
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Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:43 am to Rex Feral
I can speak to this as a middle school teacher at a public school. I have some incredible students who are going to go to college and be very successful. I have others who are at a tipping point for where their life takes them. AI is a problem. They're using it to complete homework, and write papers. Just like a lot of tools over time they've made the worker do less and less. I've gone back to a lot of paper and pencil just to get them off of their chromebooks, but it seems like the parish wants less and less paper b/c of money spent.
If I could change one thing it would be bringing textbooks back.
If I could change one thing it would be bringing textbooks back.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:44 am to Rex Feral
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You wonder what happened to kids? Bush junior fricked us all over with No Child Left Behind and the Patriot Act. While his dad was busy eating babies, he was destroying our future.
Add to that the lowering of standards in academics and behavior especially for minority students and you get what we have today. The top level kids are still doing great. But the average student is less capable in 8th grade than their grandparents were. Can answer test questions but have zero problem solving ability or social skills.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:44 am to fightin tigers
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Maybe teach your own kids.
Parents do share some of the blame for sure
I’m probably going to sound like an old man yelling at clouds even though I’m on the younger side on this site. But when kids get iPads shoved in their faces at a very young age and watch Tik Tok and You Tube all day, it’s probably going to have some negative impacts in terms of attention span, reading, and comprehension
Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:51 am to 1BamaRTR
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I’m probably going to sound like an old man yelling at clouds even though I’m on the younger side on this site. But when kids get iPads shoved in their faces at a very young age and watch Tik Tok and You Tube all day, it’s probably going to have some negative impacts in terms of attention span, reading, and comprehension
Parents play a huge part.
Tons who are on government assistance won’t even wake up and get their kids ready for school which leads to excessive absences.
Electronics without limits
It all has consequences.
My kids get 1 hr in the evening with their Ipad then they are locked out of them.
The rest of time they read or play.
My oldest is almost 2 grade levels ahead in reading.
Youngest fell behind due to some disabilities but is slowly catching up. She has to be a grade level next year or she will he retained.
I want my kids to do better than me and put themselves in a spot to be successful and tell them that frequently.
Yes my kids play sports. They don’t rule our schedule though.
This post was edited on 2/9/26 at 9:53 am
Posted on 2/9/26 at 9:58 am to idlewatcher
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We have teachers here - shitty teachers mind you - who are paid over $100K/year
What districts are dishing out these six-figure salaries?
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:00 am to prplhze2000
This an opportunity to provide your child with a competitive advantage....teach them to read, write and think. It ain't hard. Or warehouse them in school for 12 years and blame the system or home school them by waking up and 9 AM and spending 3-4 hours a day at Walmart....they are your kids...if they can't read or write that is your fault, not the systems....not a teachers, it is your failure to parent that is to blame.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:01 am to prplhze2000
I mean leftist have been in charge of education for so many years now. How can anyone be surprised they are failing at this too?
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:02 am to prplhze2000
Lil frickers are too busy protesting ICE. No time for reading, riting and rithmatic.
This post was edited on 2/9/26 at 10:03 am
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:02 am to friendlyobservation
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people are just now realizing.
Not true. I sent a letter to the Texas Education System and the local school district warning about remote learning and face coverings impacting language development in April 2020. You didn't need to be a genius to figure this out.
Parents shoulder 100% of the blame for shoving tablets in their kids faces as soon as they can hold them. It *destroys* the attention span of kids, which carries over into being unable to read more than a paragraph before getting distracted.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:04 am to beebefootballfan
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Anybody who works in education who isn’t focused on liberal indoctrination can tell you we’re screwed as a country.
Hear ya. And now even the purple-hairs are deeply disturbed about it (as in the vid).
Dubya's ballyhooed "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" , facilitated by the Marxist-led DoE crippled America's brain-power permanently. Of course by design. Can't have the rubes realize they've been lobotomized.
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Conservative states are starting to wake up to it but its going to take some massive swings to fix.
"Massive" is the word. But only if the DoE and "nationalized"standards are first actually eliminated can "education" become local and real again. And even at that, instruction on teaching and encouraging critical thinking and logic (instead of memorizing "facts" and "social studies") is where the turn around would begin.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:05 am to prplhze2000
8th graders who can’t read or write should be given 1 year to fix the problem, then they should be sent to do had labor like picking vegetables.
This is the solution to supposed labor shortages and illegal immigration.
This is the solution to supposed labor shortages and illegal immigration.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:07 am to prplhze2000
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Purple
Hair
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Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:08 am to prplhze2000
Every generation thinks kids are dumber/more lazy than they were as a kid…but yet we keep advancing. I think well somehow be okay! 
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:12 am to El Segundo Guy
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I wouldn't let my kid attend a school where they hire purple haired weirdos to teach kids.
Slight change of topic but I think still relevant-
That’s pretty much all we have left! On the dating market try restricting your woman of choice to: 1) believes in God
2) No tattoos
3) Never married
Chances of a hit: ZERO
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:12 am to KWL85
I did, after 15 years.
This post was edited on 2/9/26 at 10:14 am
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:12 am to soccerfüt
When I went to school teachers would not have purple hair nor would have be allowed to.
I guess things have changed.
I guess things have changed.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:16 am to prplhze2000
If your kids can’t read it’s likely not the fault of teachers. It’s the fault of parents who didn’t make it a priority at a young age and outside of school hours. Instead those kids are handed phones, iPads, etc. to watch videos all day.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:16 am to idlewatcher
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Yet they demand raises at every turn.
Is that supposed to contradict anything?
Strange how people recognize that private entities have to pay top dollar to get top talent, but then don’t ever want the government to offer competitive pay, and then turn around and bitch that government can’t get anything done. Hello??
I guess if the crime rate is high that proves we should pay police less
Posted on 2/9/26 at 10:17 am to czechtiger
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Slight change of topic but I think still relevant- That’s pretty much all we have left! On the dating market try restricting your woman of choice to:
1) believes in God
2) No tattoos
3) Never married
Chances of a hit: ZERO
Y’all have no clue how hard you tell on yourselves with this shite
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