{"id":85442,"date":"2026-08-13T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85442"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:30:26","slug":"texas-teacher-breaks-down-in-tears-during-class-after-his-senior-students-struggled-to-read-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/texas-teacher-breaks-down-in-tears-during-class-after-his-senior-students-struggled-to-read-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Teacher Breaks Down In Tears During Class After His Senior Students Struggled To Read, Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>New York Post (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/darius-williams-listed-wheatley-high-137247437.jpg?w=617\" alt=\"Williams said he couldn't get through the first class of the second day of school before his students' poor literacy skills were too much for him.\" width=\"283\" height=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Texas high school teacher was reduced to tears and broke down in front of his class when he realized the seniors he was teaching couldn\u2019t complete a writing exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Darius Williams, a teacher for Houston Independent School District\u2019s Wheatley High School, said he couldn\u2019t get through the first class of the second day of school before his students\u2019 poor literacy skills were too much for him. \u201cI just finished a three-hour class, and I literally broke down in the middle of class,\u201d Williams said in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dariuscooks\/reel\/Db6C4WAiQzI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram video<\/a> during his lunch break on Tuesday. Williams\u2019 breakdown in the middle of class came days after it was revealed that a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/07\/us-news\/more-than-half-of-ny-3rd-5th-graders-fail-reading-proficiency-tests-data\/\">majority of New York City students<\/a>\u00a0between third and fifth grades failed their English Language Arts tests last school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post (tabloid): A Texas high school teacher was reduced to tears and broke down in front of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85445,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85442\/revisions\/85445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}