00:00So I am on my lunch break. It is, I don't know, 1130 or something like that. And
00:09I just finished a three-hour class. We have what's called block. And block is where first
00:19and second periods are combined for subjects that need it. And so I literally broke down
00:30in the middle of class because I'm teaching seniors. These kids are leaving high school
00:41and going to college, hopefully, after they finish. We had two paragraphs to read.
00:53One sentence, complete to write.
01:00I gave them the sentence stems. I basically completed the sentence for them in the model.
01:11These are 17 and 18-year-old kids.
01:18And they couldn't fill in four words. Four words.
01:29I gave them the scenario. We annotated together. I gave them the answers before we even had
01:40the problem. And they couldn't do it.
01:47I don't know. I simply don't know where the problem is.
01:55This is only day two. And I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write.
02:11They cannot write. They can reason. They have the ability to defend their reasoning if it's talking to their homeboy,
02:20but applying that to a written text, two paragraphs, and they couldn't do it.
02:31Our young black men, our young brown men, our young black girls, and our young brown girls.
02:46Oh, God.
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