Why are students coming to class missing basic foundational skills?

“I have had so many orientation students argue with me that they don’t have to take a certain requirement bc they took it in high school.”source ↗

“Then I get students complaining to me that their AP Credits or dual credits have not been posted to their accounts and when I ask them when they submitted, they do not know and that someone submitted it for them???”source ↗

“Im a career advisor at a higher education healthcare school for people GRADUATING WITH AN ASSOCIATES DEGREE in things like "medical billing and coding, medical admin assistant, medical office billing specialist" and they, after 2 years of online classes for an AS, can not work their email.”source ↗

“I had one show up the first day of classes and was like “yeah idk where this class is held. Can you help me find the room?” Long story short, he never applied, never registered but found the class schedule online and thought he could just show up.”source ↗

“Their last essay of the semester was due last night, and I'm still dealing with kids who "didn't know" it was due on Canvas, "don't know how" to upload a word doc or PDF to Canvas, "forgot" their work cited page, etc.”source ↗

“I don't really know what's happening in middle school or elementary schools in my area, or if anyone else is struggling with this, but it is the 3rd week of school and my freshman are already far behind.”source ↗

“Anyone else experiencing this? I'm tired. I have 11 8th period and for some reason 9 have a question at the same time. I also have 25 7th period and that is a different hell.”source ↗

“She was never taught how to manage her workload or the concept of turning in work on time.”source ↗

“Her highest grade is a 50%. This is all because she won't turn in her work.”source ↗

“I've got a high school freshman who can't read or do basic math.”source ↗

“One kid out of the entire class completed the assignment correctly (ironically one of my language disordered kids).”source ↗

“Half of the class was engaged in unproductive behaviors (asking for pass to leave class, playing with their fidgets, playing games on Chromebook). The other half tried to do the assignment but did it ALL WRONG.”source ↗

“Hardly any of the students have written a complete sentence without egregious spelling or grammatical errors.”source ↗

“I’m not sure how to better convey the material during my recitations, or if they even care to learn.”source ↗

“my daughter (13) has a total of 19 missing assignments across multiple classes.”source ↗

“once she falls behind she starts to feel overwhelmed and won't do any new assignments.”source ↗

“She's had her cell phone and all electronics taken away for weeks at this point and it just doesn't matter to her.”source ↗

“I'm at my wit's end here.”source ↗

“They literally need to be told how to do every single thing: put your name on the paper, push your chair in, follow the class routine when you come in.”source ↗

“This group is killing me and I'm losing patience fast.”source ↗

“Elementary schools keep sending us 7th graders who read at a 3-5th grade level and do math at 2-4th grade level. There’s only so much we can do to catch them up.”source ↗

“For years, schools have heavily leaned into social promotion, passing students along to the next grade despite missing skills or unfinished work”source ↗

“I am teaching students that are two grades below, and I’m expected to pass them onto the next grade, knowing that even with differentiation and equity for students who have IEP‘s or 504, there are students who are naughty equipped in their skill, set to be mastering the next grades standards because they have yet to achieve mastery or even close to mastery of the current grade level standards by the end of the year.”source ↗

“districts across the US are pushing us to pass the students despite data analysis showing that further support is needed.”source ↗

“Yes. I’m shocked how low they are academically, and immature.”source ↗

“That’s why my high schoolers think they don’t actually need to learn any math I teach (geometry and precalc) because they can just take a picture of whatever problem they have and chat gpt with solve it.”source ↗

“I told a 9th grader yesterday that 'idk' isn't an answer 'and neither is I don't know.'”source ↗

“I had to come home and make a stiff drink after school yesterday (HS Science Teacher) after I did a stations activity to make different observations of various things and working with vocab.”source ↗

“I had all-too-many kids just randomly picking things. And then when I had them explain where on their chart, they would point to the thing not even in the same row or same column and be like "because it's right there!".”source ↗

“I'm a HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER. I'm not an elementary school teacher. Like WTF is going on?!??!”source ↗

“They looked at me like I had 3 heads when I talked about estimating and rounding and "friendly numbers".”source ↗

“They say the midpoint between 300 and 400 is 305.”source ↗

“I dont know what to do.”source ↗

“I feel like a failure because this is the first year where I've had so many kids just not understand.”source ↗

“They have so many gaps in their knowledge that almost everything has to be explicitly taught to them.”source ↗

“I have students in my 3rd level class who haven’t passed a semester since the first year in my program. It is really frustrating.”source ↗

“I am at a loss how to try to teach someone to teach who has no background knowledge of the education field…any advice would be greatly appreciated.”source ↗

“How do other teachers know when they’ve done all they reasonably can in the classroom? What do you do when a student needs much more basic instruction than you have the time, training, or resources to provide?”source ↗

“Some of my students are reading around a first grade level, but I’m still expected to teach grade level material.”source ↗

“Eventually I get to a point where I don’t know how to break it down any further without just giving them the answer or doing the thinking for them.”source ↗

“I have a former student that needs to pass their EOC Biology test to graduate.”source ↗

“I did remediation last year, and I feel like the students hated it and didn’t learn.”source ↗

“I’m scared because we have a good relationship, and I will take it personal if they don’t pass.”source ↗

“He told me he didn’t need to improve his reading because he could ask his phone anything he wanted to know.”source ↗