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Teachers have been using TikTok to increase awareness about the realities of the modern classroom for the last few years. Now, the spotlight is on how fast students are falling behind.
In one viral video, posted Sept. 19, an Atlanta area teacher suggested that many of his seventh grade students are performing at a fourth grade level — and some are performing at level even lower than that.
“The fourth grade is being nice,” the creator, who goes by “QBskiiii” on TikTok, said in the clip, which has been viewed nearly 4 million times as of publication.
“I still have kids performing on the K, one, two and third grade levels,” the educator added. “I could probably count on one hand how many kids are actually performing on their grade level.”
Since then, dozens of other educators from across the country have stitched the video to share their similar experiences, as noted by USA Today. One creator by the name of “MycahAngelou,” who works in the north Houston area, said their seventh grader English students cannot read, write or comprehend text as they should at their grade level.
“These babies cannot read, they cannot write, and they cannot comprehend," said the creator, who claimed to work at “one of the more affluent schools” in the area.
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