A high school English teacher took to social media to share his concerns about the state of education in the U.S. He was brought to tears as he revealed that in his class, he has seniors who cannot write a single sentence.
“I literally broke down in the middle of class because I’m teaching seniors,” he shared. “These kids are leaving high school and going to college, hopefully, after they finish.”
“We had two paragraphs to read, one sentence, complete, to write. I gave them the sentence stems. I basically completed the sentence for them in the model.”
“These are 17 and 18-year-old kids, and they couldn’t fill in four words. Four words.”
“I gave them the scenario. We annotated together. I gave them the answers before we even had the problem.”
“And they couldn’t do it.”
“I don’t know. I simply don’t know where the problem is.”
“This is only day two, and I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write. They cannot write.”
“They could reason. They have the ability to defend their reasoning if it’s talking to their homeboy, but applying that to a written text, two paragraphs, they couldn’t do it.”
“Our young Black men, our young brown men, our young Black girls, and our young brown girls. Oh God.”
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A high-school English teacher breaks down crying on camera because the high-school SENIORS in his class cannot write a SINGLE SENTENCE.
“I have SENIORS that cannot read. I have SENIORS that cannot write.”
My gosh… pic.twitter.com/ZwJzBturk2
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 12, 2026
What is American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten doing about this crisis? Spending hundreds of thousands in union resources to help write her ‘manifesto’ book. According to a report from the Freedom Foundation, Weingarten worked with a team that raked in more than $1.4 million from the labor group.
Weingarten used the abundance of union-fueled resources for the liberal agenda-pushing “Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy,” then pocketed a portion of the proceeds, the Freedom Foundation claimed in a new report.
Her team included an attorney who supposedly worked on the book pro bono but whose firm raked in $977,000 for various work for AFT, as well as a supposed “ghost writer” who earned over $400,000 overall from the union, the report said.
The union also forked over more than $11,000 to two people who “fact-checked” and apparently took photos of the labor big for the tome — which was heralded by the publisher as a “manifesto for our time.”
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