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Posted on 08/13/2026 5:11:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN
A Texas high school teacher was reduced to tears and broke down in front of his class when he realized the seniors he was teaching couldn’t complete a writing exercise.
Darius Williams, a teacher for Houston Independent School District’s Wheatley High School, said he couldn’t get through the first class of the second day of school before his students’ poor literacy skills were too much for him.
“I just finished a three-hour class, and I literally broke down in the middle of class,” Williams said in an Instagram video during his lunch break on Tuesday. Williams, a New Education System (NES) Career and Technical Education (CTE) staffer, said he gave his class full of seniors two paragraphs to read and asked them to complete another sentence he had practically filled out for them, but was left stunned when they couldn’t finish the task.
“I basically completed the sentence for them, he said. “These are 17- and 18-year-old kids, and they couldn’t fill in four words. Four words!” exclaimed Williams.
“I gave them the scenario, we annotated together. I gave them the answers before we even had the problem and they couldn’t do it. I don’t know I simply don’t know where the problem is,” he said frustratingly.
“This is only day two, and I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write. They cannot write,” Williams cried out.
“Our young black men, our young brown men, our young black girls, and our young brown girls,” Williams said as he began to sob before ending the video.
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My niece and goddaughter is in her mid-late 20s, teaches fifth graders near us. A few months back, we were discussing education in general, and I brought up the novel Animal Farm. I mentioned that I read that book in 5th grade.
I was flabbergasted when she said she had never heard of it. As I described the plot, she then said, "it's probably on the banned list."
THIS PROBLEM HAS A LONG HISTORY—THESE KIDS ARE SENIORS..... THEY COULD NOT READ/WRITE LONG BEFORE THIS SUMMER.
Back when my son was young, he completed 1st grade and was passed on, but he could not read. I asked why he was passed on when he could not read at a 1st grade level. Answer was that’s what they did. So my wife and I sacrificed and we enrolled him in a Christian private school. He repeated 1 st grade. At the end of that year, he was at a 4th grade level in reading. We did the same with his sister. They taught phonics, which is how I was taught. Too bad the public schools haven’t “learned” anything even after all these years.
Yes, I know but ...
I live in Central Kentucky and to my observation the problems in Appalachian Kentucky have some things in common with the blacks/Hispanics in the ghettos: they don't value education, they don't value speaking the language properly, there's way too much drug use, they always seem to be looking for a "get rich quick" scheme, etc.
No. Their "case worker" will fill out all the welfare application forms for them.
ROFL!!!
The problem isn’t that the so-called “valedictorian” plagiarized the whole speech ...
The problem is that the so-called “teachers” didn’t recognize the plagiarism.
And you failed him too
When I went to primary school in the late 1950s, I remember thinking my teachers were a bit scary. They didn’t tolerate failure. You couldn’t get too far out of line before the teacher would single you out and subject you to some well deserved “public shaming”, which often involved letting the rest of the class laugh at you. If you didn’t finish an assignment you’d be held after class until you did.
And if the parents had to be involved - the same pressure was continued at home.
The bottom line is that our parents and teachers didn’t forget that although we were adorable little innocents, we needed to be exposed to the fear and consequences of failure because that is what we all encounter in real life.
We all saw kids being held back a year if they didn’t make the cut - or having to attend summer school - and avoiding those prospects kept many a child on the straight and narrow.
It wasn’t that different when my children went to primary school in the 1980s.
I doubt very much these black and brown kids are being subjected to any such pressure or facing any such consequences. That would be ‘racist’.
They just advance them to the next grade - and the fact is most children need a little fear of negative consequence in order to straighten up and fly right.
Sure, there are kids that don’t need much of a push - they are naturally competitive or naturally curious to learn. But many children need a push here and there - then something magical happens and they get up to speed and read their first real book... and get a taste of what that feels like.
Learning to read and write for the first time is just as exciting as learning to ride a bike or learning to swim - and let’s admit - these experiences were a bit scary when we did them for the first time. But it was also unthinkable NOT to do those things - no one wanted to be that kid who never learned to swim!
I remember not being the first of my friends to ride a bike - and I sure remember not wanting to be the last! It became very important to pass those hurdles - there was peer pressure - and that was a good thing. Getting my drivers license - getting accepted to a college of my choice - my first real job.
Can you imagine if you were never pushed into trying to swim across the pool or ride a bike for the first time? Or read and write?
Nothing should be taught in schools until reading comprehension and basic math skills are mastered for grade level. No history, geography, civics, science. Nothing. Get reading and math down first. You can worry about everything else later.
For particularly dumb and lazy students, at least they would graduate high school eventually with competent reading and math skills. Nothing else matter if they can’t do that because they can’t function in society anyway.
If they want to learn other things, that is what youtube videos are for.
I am not saying schools shouldn’t teach a wide variety of important subject. I am saying thiose other subjects should be put on hold until every kid in class can read at grade level.
First things first.
Yeah, no surprise it is mostly black students that can’t read or write or do math. Too many live in a poison culture where learning is demonized as “acting white”.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole, watch the YouTube videos from teachers about their students who can’t read, write or do math, and how they don’t even want to try to learn.
Even worse many parents are supportive of their kids’ attitudes.
Nah, out public schools aren’t broken or anything... Nah. Couldn’t be.
He didn’t even mention the discipline problems and the threat of a teacher getting beaten if he tries to force a black kid to do a lesson or homework.
“he gave his class full of seniors two paragraphs to read and asked them to complete another sentence he had practically filled out for them, but was left stunned when they couldn’t finish the task.”
And now they’re all headed to Harvard with full scholarships.
I don’t see any girls in that class.
Also ... it takes TWO teachers/class??
Good thing they have Civil Rights posters .... that the kids can’t even read, tho.
🙃
It is completely unnecessary for parents to read to their children. It is a huge help and a big head start in school, but flat unnecessary.
There are millions of FOB immigrants who came to America without knowing 10 words of English and didn’t speak it in the home but their children became fluent English speakers in school.
Black illiteracy is mostly about a culture of not valuing education or providing discipline to children and requiring them to obey their parents.
I will give you that too many black mothers don’t insist that their children do their nightly homework.
I don’t even know how much absenteeism there is for these kids. Do they even attend class half the time or do they cut classes half the time. It could be that the parents don’t even bother making their children go to school everyday. I just don’t know.
I have driven throught the hoods in Oakland while I was on night shift and seeing entire blocks of people out partying at 1 am and 2 am, with children of all ages playing in the street among the drug use. Those children are probably sleeping all day either missing school or sleeping during school.
It must be tempting for a teacher to just let a bunch of kids sleep rather than deal with their discipline problems.
““I gave them the scenario, we annotated together. I gave them the answers before we even had the problem and they couldn’t do it. I don’t know I simply don’t know where the problem is,” he said frustratingly.”
The Bell Curve explains most of this.
Not the best example as the Chinese girl was likely very high IQ and highly motivated.
That is not what we are talking about in this thread. We are talking about your average below IQ kid with no motivation or home support.
Buy you are right that it is not hard to learn to read. The schools just are not emphasizing it. Nothing else should be taught in any of these poor performing elementary schools until students read at grade level. I don’t care if all you teach from grade 1 to 7 is just reading and writing. No math or anything else.
Get the reading down first.
There are a ton of issues here from IQ, to lack of family support, to nutrition issues, sleep issues, anti-white culture and lack of discipline. It is not just one thing for these losers.
Kids should be retained after kindergarten or first grade if they have not learned what they should have learned in those grades. Many people with money send their kids to private schools that have a pre-first, etc. year so that their children are ready for first grade.
Kids should repeat a grade when they absolutely have not learned what they should have in order to go to the next grade. I am aware that this is almost completely forbidden in public schools.
Kids should be retained again after third grade. They should be retained again after fifth grade, before middle school. They should be retained again after eighth grade. If they ever need to be retained a second time, they need to be in a special school or a completely different program. Mainstreaming kids who are either extremely disruptive to the classroom or incapable of doing what the rest of the class is doing has really harmed public education.
The eighth grade retention is key because kids want to go to high school. It is motivating. If they thought they might be retained, they might do their work and pay better attention in class.
I am at the point that I can’t blame the mothers or absentee fathers for the reason black kids can’t read or behave.
The mother is almost certainly functionally illiterate herself and likely had the kid as a teenager or close to it.
Ditto for grandma who raised the kid’s mother. Illiterate and never was taught how to be a mother by her mother either.
Generations of the “blind leading the blind” as regards child rearing. I think that is a fundamental problem in black culture. At some point you started having large numbers of illegitimate teen births to girls who were clueless how to raise a child. Do that 3 or 4 generations running, and you get an entire culture of single black mothers who are not even aware how clueless a parent they are. How can you fix something you don’t even know is wrong?
It is a mess and I have no clue how to fix it without just taking the kids away from parents, and that never works well either unless they are adopted by particularly loving parents. Orphanages don’t work. Mass fostering does’t work to raise girls to be good mothers either.
It is a massive mess with no solution in sight.
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