Crisis In America! Teacher Breaks Down In Tears Over Failing Students

Doc Rich

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00:00okay let's talk about it real quick let's make it make sense i know all last week all over social

00:04media you saw nothing but teachers talking about how elementary and middle school kids are reading

00:10four years below grade level well as a high school teacher i'm here to inform you that high school

00:15kids are doing way worse they are reading six years below grade level the only difference is

00:21a whole heap of these kids are going to graduate at the end of this school year and we are

00:25expecting

00:26them to go to college and obtain jobs when they cannot even comprehend basic skills which is why

00:33we probably see a problem with employers finding employees there are literally high school kids

00:40reading on a third grade reading level and still states are expecting teachers to prepare kids and

00:46have them pass state tests are on or above grade level see the issue is schools have dumbed it down

00:54for kids they have made it so easy that kids believe that their only job is to show up and

00:59behave and

01:00that should be enough to get a passing grade and to go on to the next grade level we have

01:05a real issue

01:06here and please do not talk to me about graduation rates because bugs bunny could graduate in this era

01:13yeah we gotta we gotta bring back this topic of discussion because i think this is a really

01:27really important topic and i don't think it's something that we should allow to kind of die off

01:33or kind of fall to the wayside because as you heard there these students are graduating and some of them

01:40have the reading our art read at the equivalent of a third grade reading level

01:51and honestly honestly i believe it i really do because i'm sure some of you have seen some of the

01:59video clips of people holding up a note card and having these young folks read it and they can't read

02:07i don't know 75 to 85 of the note card they might get a couple of words right but it's

02:16almost as if

02:17they're guessing what the word is they're not actually reading it you know let alone comprehend what the

02:23words even mean it's crazy it's crazy and yes some of them might be a little bit bigger of words

02:31but

02:32they're they're words that anybody with a 12th grade level education should most certainly know

02:39one hundred percent easily know you know what i mean it's not one of those obscure words where it's

02:47like geez i've never seen that one before you know and even even i have some moments still to this

02:53day

02:53right where i come across the word i'm like i've never seen that word before you know just like weird

02:59words you know what i mean you guys have those moments but like it's not even like one of those

03:03words it's like simple stuff and i've played video clips in the past i'm not going to bore you guys

03:08with that again today but i have this video clip of this teacher that i want to break down with

03:14you

03:15all so with that being said smack the like button subscribe if you are new and let's dive in this

03:20job

03:21is exhausting like it's exhausting like you to be a teacher you have to come here and like

03:31you're giving so much energy like it is exhausting i'm not feeling well today

03:39and it doesn't matter it doesn't matter how i feel

03:46it's like almost like you gotta come in here and like just shove everything and all your thoughts

03:51and all your problems to the side and you have to like just like pour into these kids and like

03:58it's exhausting i'm exhausted breaks my heart because there's so many kids that are like just

04:04really struggling academically and it hurts me because it's like i i care so much like even with

04:10the literacy crisis with everything we're learning we're doing sight words now and one of the sight

04:16words is everyone right clearly they're not studying at home i have centers i do review every day and

04:23parents are not studying with them at home and the data comes back and they're failing one girl passed

04:30one girl out of 34 kids that i have 34 kids one passed

04:37and i literally put the word on the board i write it on the board and i say copy and

04:42they're copying it

04:43wrong and you're when you're in the front line as an educator it's almost scary because you're like

04:49dude like what is like and then you start questioning yourself you're like is it me like what i'm exhausted

04:58like today i'm i'm at a zero like i'm at a zero i just want to do my job and

05:04i just want to go home

05:06for the last two months i've been like go go go and today like my body's like carol like

05:12you need to stop like you need to

05:17i don't know and then i got one comment and they were like why are you so tired all your

05:23videos you're

05:24sitting down be so for real right now you think i'm just rolling around in my chair

05:31because i sit down for a part of my lesson this is exhausting emotionally physically spiritually it's

05:38exhausting even when i have boundaries in place because you do right like my last video to survive

05:44this you need to have boundaries you need to have certain systems in place so that you don't go crazy

05:50it's things that i'm constantly pushing myself to do but like when you're in the front line here

05:57like bro it's exhausting i also get comments like you're so loud you're doing too much to your kids

06:06do you know how hard it is to keep 34 little kids engaged all day

06:13i have to project i have to move i have to change my voice and lower my voice and like

06:20there's some days that i like doing it but man to do that every single day it's exhausting

06:30this is an elementary school teacher and if you're wondering where she teaches i looked it up and it

06:36looks like she is in new york according to this they're about 50 of the students in elementary

06:43school are proficient in reading now i don't know if that's accurate though because according to this

06:48elementary school teacher she says that out of 34 students i believe only one of them passed so that is

06:55horrible but it's not shocking because there's so many teachers that are coming forward and saying

07:00this exact same thing across the board reading writing math everything none of the students can do

07:06anything they don't pay attention um one thing that she said is that she'll tell them to write

07:11something copy something and they can't even do that i showed a video of another teacher and she

07:15said it was so bad that the students didn't even know how to take the cap off of a highlighter

07:20and put

07:20it on the back end of the highlighter to make sure it didn't get lost i mean that's the state

07:24of education

07:24in america let's just see what the comments have to say about this it's not you it's the parents it

07:30starts at home i mean that's kind of what this teacher is saying too she's saying that she gives

07:33them homework and they don't do the homework and she knows the parents don't do it with them

07:37and that is very common i too believe that this is the main problem i think our education system

07:44is bad it's gotten really bad i think that people all the immigrants and everybody that have come in

07:49and they don't speak english is a huge problem but the biggest problem i think is the parents here

07:55is a teacher who said i had to quit i ended up in inpatient unit in september due to poor

08:00mental health

08:0130 beds five of us were teachers this is nuts 50 000 likes it's the ipads it means the shorter

08:08attention span teaching is abuse as a fellow teacher this is not an exaggeration i go home

08:14exhausted every single day i blame the parents so everyone kind of agrees it's the parents it starts

08:21at home but then the question comes how do we change that where how do we get accountability because

08:27i know when i was in school you had to act right you had to do your homework or you

08:32didn't pass or

08:33you just got expelled or suspended or you had to go to a different school that accountability largely

08:38just doesn't exist anymore and i think that we need to bring it back i agree 100 with uh that

08:46last bit

08:47we need to bring back some accountability not just on the part of the student um especially in this

08:53case because we were talking about little kids elementary school kids although there needs to be

08:58some accountability on their part but also on the parents also on the parents right um and we need to

09:07stop this uh no child left behind kind of silly talk because with that every child is getting left behind

09:17one kid could pass that one out of 34

09:23she writes something on the board and they they can't even copy it correctly

09:29like that like that that almost sounds unbelievable you know a teacher writes something

09:36copy this on your piece of paper and they can't do it

09:42that's that's like it's almost unfathomable like how can you possibly not be able to

09:49like you're copying it it's right there it's in your face this isn't this isn't something that you have

09:57to think about like even if you don't know the letters you can just copy the way that it looks

10:08they can't do it

10:12it's crazy man and it's not just the little kids as you guys heard in the first clip that i

10:17played for

10:17you it's high school students as well third grade reading level can barely read they're graduating

10:26that is unacceptable unacceptable

10:33the way that these schools are just pushing these students through is just crazy

10:40when i was in high school hey if you didn't pass you didn't pass we'll see you next year in

10:46the same

10:46grade we're not just gonna push you along no no no no no no no no no right now it's

10:54just up

10:55push them along anyway oh you failed fourth grade we'll see you in fifth oh you failed 12th grade

11:03uh you'll still get the walk of graduation you'll still get your diploma don't worry about it

11:09it's crazy uh the this participation trophy culture is garbage it's garbage

11:20and i i i feel like that's part of what it is right not wanting to hurt people's feelings

11:27you can't you can't um fail them no no it's gonna be detrimental to their mental health so

11:38maybe it needs to be at this point

11:44grow some tougher skin that's also something as well like people are getting so soft today

11:49it's ridiculous um but we're gonna save that topic of discussion for another video

11:54uh but yeah we need to bring back accountability um and um there was there was one teacher that i

12:02came

12:02across i might have i might have uh shown you guys the video clip but i believe there was a

12:06teacher who

12:07was talking about how um instead of it being a partnership you know with the teacher student

12:15the parent right instead of it being like a partnership or a collaboration it's now um more

12:21like um it's more what i can't remember what she said it's more like a transaction or like a um

12:29i think i think that's kind of what she said because if i remember correctly she said it was more

12:33like a um

12:34um transaction because now it's just the customer is always correct

12:41you know you have some parents who are offended when you fail their students or give them a bad grade

12:47and they go and complain and then the principal steps in and tries to fix the grade and all of

12:52this other

12:52stuff no your child no i'm not gonna say what i was not gonna say that um uh we're gonna

13:01be nice uh

13:01your child is not up to snuff

13:05and that's part partly your fault i feel like a lot of parents aren't reading to their kids on a

13:10daily basis anymore that art has been lost not to say that that's the end-all be-all right um

13:17but

13:19still you you you have the advent of these tablets and uh computer screens and tv screens and kids are

13:26just

13:26glued to it and that's all they ever there's no there's no uh genuine interaction with parents that

13:34is meaningful outside of you know hey what do you want to eat or you know what i mean but

13:41it's crazy man it's crazy and it's sad to watch

13:46sad to watch when you see some of these clips of these young folks who can't read

13:51can't tell time you get you give them a clock they don't they don't have a clue how to read

13:57it

13:58not a clue like not even in the ballpark either you know what i mean like even if they were

14:06like in

14:06the ballpark oh yeah that hand is there that hand is there okay it's probably blah blah blah like

14:11they're not even in the ballpark not even close

14:19and those students are growing up to be be adults and they're graduating and going out into the real

14:25world and those are the people that we're going to be living amongst we got to fix it ladies and

14:30gentlemen we got to fix it but what do you think the solution is to the problem let me know

14:34stay safe

14:35out there peace and love i'm out

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