HISD Teacher Says He ‘Broke Down’ After Seniors Struggled to Read and Write on Second Day of Classes
Darius Williams said seniors could not complete a four-word exercise and could explain answers aloud but not in writing.
- On Tuesday, Wheatley High School teacher Darius Williams shared a viral video on Instagram and Threads describing his struggle to get senior students to complete a simple reading-and-writing exercise.
- Williams, an educator in the Houston Independent School District , recounted how his 17 and 18-year-old students could not fill in four words despite having annotated the passage together earlier in class.
- Students appeared capable of verbally defending their reasoning but struggled to transfer those skills to paper, while HISD defended its record, pointing to significant academic gains at Wheatley High School.
- Data from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, called the "Nation's Report Card," found only about 30 percent of fourth-graders read at proficient levels, suggesting literacy struggles extend nationally.
- Educators cite overlapping factors for declining literacy, including pandemic-era learning loss, shrinking attention spans from short-form video, and artificial-intelligence tools, though no single explanation has gained consensus among teachers raising concerns.
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High School English Teacher Brought to Tears as He Reveals Some Seniors in His Class Cannot Write a SINGLE SENTENCE
by Margaret Flavin A high school English teacher took to social media to share his concerns about the state of education in the U.S. He was brought to tears as he revealed that in his class, he has seniors who cannot write a single sentence. “I literally broke down in the middle of class because...
Texas High School Teacher Broke Down as Seniors Struggled to Read and Write
A Texas high school teacher reportedly broke down in tears after a senior high school student could not complete a paragraph writing exercise. He was teaching a 3-hour class when he broke down in the middle after realizing that students were unable to do simple exercises. He recorded the video during the school break and later posted it on social media. According to the New York Post, the teacher, Darius Williams, from Houston Independent Schoo…
High School English Teacher Brought to Tears as He Reveals Some Seniors in His Class Cannot Write a SINGLE SENTENCE * The Gateway Pundit * by Margaret Flavin
A high school English teacher took to social media to share his concerns about the state of education in the U.S.
In a video posted on Instagram this Thursday (13) Darius Williams, Texas high school teacher, in the United States, cried during a class after realizing that last year's students could not complete a reading and writing activity. The episode happened at Wheatley High School and was reported by the teacher himself. Initial plugin text According to Williams, the activity consisted of completing a sentence from a text that had already been discusse…
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