A Texas teacher went viral last week after crying in a video he posted on social media about how poorly his high school students were reading and writing.

Darius Williams, a teacher at Wheatley High School in Houston, said that on the first class of the second day of school he gave his seniors a simple task to read two paragraphs and write a sentence about what they read.

“I basically completed the sentence for them,” he said as he wiped his eyes. “These are 17- and 18-year-old kids, and they couldn’t fill in four words. Four words.”

“This is only day two,” he continued, “and I have seniors who simply cannot read and seniors who cannot write. They cannot write.”

We all should be crying.

Days before Williams’ social media sob fest, data was released showing that just half, 50.3 percent, of all New York City students in grades 3 through 8 were........

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