And the Post reports that he may have gotten in hot water for his trouble. The videos, posted on TikTok, show the teenagers failing to read a sentence on a piece of paper while being filmed at the city’s Preparatory Charter School of Mathematics, Science, Technology and Careers. In the clip, made by user “whatthevek” earlier this week, not a single high school-aged student was able to read the sentence, “She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche.”
He made a follow-up video a day later in which the students were apparently unable to make sense of the sentence, “The colonel asked the choir to accommodate the governor’s schedule.” The two videos racked up a combined 1.7 million likes and thousands of comments, but “whatthevek” later claimed he wouldn’t be making a third due to threats from authorities at Prep Charter.
“I would post a part three, but the school board is trying to expel me, stop me from going to prom, and stop me from walking at graduation. I don’t know chat,” he wrote in an Instagram story on Friday.
South Philly-based Prep Charter, one of the most diverse schools in the state, did not respond immediately to requests for comment. State test scores show that just 53% of students at the school tested proficient in reading, and just 19% were proficient in math.
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This is one helluva deal.
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There are NO GOOD government monopoly day prisons pretending to educate kids. NONE. The sooner you face that reality and work to abolish and defund the system, the sooner decent educational alternatives can step in to deliver the quality everyone 2ants and needs.
ReplyDeleteIn a country in which the President can't read what do you expect from kids in school?
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, with his dementia, Biden couldn't do a lot of things.
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