I’m a high school English teacher, and I am dismayed at the lack of literacy I see among my students. The majority don’t read, only the really smart ones do, and texting has dumbed them down so much it’s chilling. The gen pop kids have no idea just how stupid they are. The smart kids are in IB and AP.
What’s IB?
You’re a high school teacher, you should be able to make a difference.
If you’d like to write a tell-all so people know what’s going on, i’ll fix it so your identity is hidden and I’ll publish it somewhere.
Bruce Deitrick Price
I retired from teaching last summer. I taught high school biology and chemistry. Low literacy was a serious problem, even among AP students. Average students couldn't extract meaning from their textbooks and mostly ignored reading assignments. Kids are being cheated of their future.
I have a McGuffeys Eclectic Readers Series, Primer to Fourth.
THE primary English books of the late 1800’s into the 1900’s. What a fourth grader was exposed to then versus now...we’ve lost so much.
A1912 eighth grade exam: https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html