Besides enriching themselves, America’s leadership class has failed at everything, including their promises to educate young people.
In a pair of viral videos posted on the social media platform TikTok, students at Philadelphia’s Preparatory Charter School of Mathematics, Science, Technology and Careers — one of Pennsylvania’s “most diverse schools,” per theNew York Post— struggled either to read a simple sentence or to make sense of it in their own words.
The first video, posted byTikTokuser “whatthevek,” featured students who could not read the following sentence: “She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche.”
All five students stumbled on the words “silhouette,” “extraordinary,” and “gauche.”
WARNING: The following videos contain profane language and may be offensive to some viewers.
Then, in a second video, a different group of students read a different sentence.
This time, most of them correctly read, “The colonel asked the choir to accommodate the governor’s schedule.” When prompted to put that sentence into their own words, however, they could not do so.
As a former educator, three things about this story infuriate me.
First, it makes my blood boil to think that someone might view those videos and then mock thestudents.
Watch the young man at the end of the first video above. Does he not come across as ashamed and hiding his embarrassment behind nervous movements? Adults failed him and his classmates.
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