As always, to be clear, I'm not blaming teachers. It's admin and above forcing teachers to pass students and tying their hands.
"Which of the following is not an insect" - the difficulty of this question largely hinges on what the options are. Is the non-insect something obvious like a bat, or something you have to actively read about to know, like a spider?
My thoughts: kids aren't bored enough anymore to care about learning anything. Even poor kids now seem to have endless access to the internet and social media. They are used to life in 15second or less clips and statements. They don't need to know anything other than how to Google or AI and answer and therefore don't know when they are getting a fabricated answer. It's kind of like the kids that only eat crap food and weigh 300lbs in elementary school. Their choices might be horrible but adults made those the choices available to them. I have a nephew who want to learn cursive but his parents are against it because 'neither of them have good handwriting'. Under 30s are in a bad time for learning but they aren't the ones responsible for it. The billionaires want uneducated serfs.
"I think they know capable workers aren't coming"
And I think they designed it to be this way. They've been setting up a genocide of the "others" for 100 years now
I see plenty of students who are quite capable, but then I also seen students who are in classes like calculus, but should probably be in Algebra I. Granted, the students unusually see as from quite privalaged backgrounds and I don't see how they do handwritten sentences.
I'm thinking the '15 year teacher' doesn't write many sentences either. #commaSplice
Every time I am reminded of Three Cuing, I am filled with rage.
I was taught to never begin a sentence with a numerically-formatted number, so both comments visible in the screenshot get docked points from me. While it is not technically incorrect, it is unprofessional.
I also was 'gifted', reading and writing at a college level by the fifth grade, and didn't learn anything new through and including graduating from high-school. My peers, though? Another 7 years, and most didn't absorb much else, playing catch-up.
Though I am absolutely against homework and studying at home. Usually you would think that those who dedicate time at home to studying will achieve higher grades, and to a limited extent that is correct, but it's more like an edge case than the norm. The classroom setting, while dreadful, does seem to help with information retention - at least in my experience. Beyond that, it falls off a cliff.
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