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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I subbed for 8th grade yesterday.  It made me sad.  So many kids on track to "dead end" lives.  Some can't read.  some aren't willing to do any work at all, just sit on their phones all class period.  Many are extremely defiant.  One girl announced to the class I was racist because of "the way I looked at her".  Kids loudly announcing they "hate all subs".  So many of these kids seem to be headed to a life on minimum wage jobs.  They don't seem to understand that this is their chance to create a good future.  Of course there were some really great kids too, but overall I feel sad.  [/quote]

Thanks for sharing, OP. It makes me think it would be so much better if we allowed hybrid trade school /academics beginning in middle school. Kids would continue with focus on math, English, science, history and civics for the morning and then go to learn how to be an aesthetician, plumber, electrician, carpenter, energy auditor, mechanic, etc., during the day. If you've ever tried to find a good tradesman around here you know how hard it is to find one. The people I use started their companies  35 or 40 years ago or more. They pay their top workers around $100k.

That said, passing along middle schoolers who are illiterate is unconscionable. Are these kids mainly from families who speak another language, or are they at least second gen American and yet illiterate?[/quote]

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