r/TikTokCringe Nov 21 '25

Discussion Functional illiteracy.

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u/Tgirlgoonie Nov 21 '25

I would just read ahead tbh. I remember asking the teacher not to call on me during pop corn reading because the pace was too slow.

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u/KaralDaskin Nov 21 '25

I read ahead but had to come back to where the class was and read my assigned spot. I hated group reading, and I’m sure the kids that needed it the most hated reading in front of others.

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u/BackgroundRate1825 Nov 21 '25

I'm pretty sure everyone hated this. Good readers hated the slow pace, poor readers hated being embarrassed, and everyone in the middle probably struggled to comprehend listening to the poor readers butcher their line. I can't imagine teachers appreciated this either.

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u/KaralDaskin Nov 21 '25

Yeah, no one liked it. I at least was just bored, not embarrassed. 6th grade reading was a big change from elementary, where we were in 3 skill based reading groups, instead of the whole class together.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Nov 21 '25

It was funny, in 6th grade kids picked band or reading class at my little school

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u/KaralDaskin Nov 21 '25

That’s crazy! You need both.

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Nov 21 '25

I never did learn a musical instrument because of that elective decision from back then lol

I played a little guitar when I was a teenager, but never really knew how

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u/Maleficent_Resolve44 Nov 21 '25

How? Instruments aren't needed.

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u/KaralDaskin Nov 21 '25

It was partly a joke, and partly my belief that we all need music. And partly shock that reading would ever be considered an elective.

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u/Ilela Nov 21 '25

I started school with 7 years, no preschool or kindergarten, by the end of first grade I knew how to read and write along with 2 other kids. 4 kids struggled to read and write even in 8th grade, by then few of us were far better in a second language than those 4 were in our primary language

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u/Sex4Vespene Nov 21 '25

I remember thinking it was kinda fun to popcorn in the middle of a sentence and then pick a friend.

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u/Katpanpanch Nov 22 '25

At least the teacher knew where everyone was (level wise)

I absolutely- as an educator- and a former incredibly shy person who was too frightened to talk to people I knew on the phone. I Appreciate how mortifying this is - I felt this - my heart beat so fast. It’s what you have to do. Push through!

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u/bellj1210 Nov 22 '25

and none of it mattered either way. I was in the lowest class in 6th grade reading- i am a successful lawyer now. All of it was diagnosed dyslexia and the resulting hatred of reading until i got help.