{"id":1644,"date":"2026-08-13T19:17:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:17:42","slug":"texas-teacher-breaks-down-in-tears-during-class-after-his-senior-students-struggled-to-read-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"Texas teacher breaks down in tears during class after his senior students struggled to read, write"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just finished a three-hour class, and I literally broke down in the middle of class,\u201d Williams said in an\u00a0Instagram video<\/a>\u00a0during his lunch break on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Houston high school teacher Darius Williams broke down during his lunch break after finding out his students couldn\u2019t write on Aug. 11, 2026.Instagram\/dariuscooks<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Williams, a New Education System (NES) Career and Technical Education (CTE) staffer, said he gave his class full of seniors two paragraphs to read and asked them to complete another sentence he had practically filled out for them, but was left stunned when they couldn\u2019t finish the task.<\/p>\n

\u201cI basically completed the sentence for them, he said. \u201cThese are 17- and 18-year-old kids, and they couldn\u2019t fill in four words. Four words!\u201d exclaimed Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aluremart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}