r/education

Hi, I made this one. I've played Wordle-likes for years and always wanted to build my own, but I never had an idea that felt like mine.

The push came from a strange place. Half of what I read these days is written by AI, and it's never short. Every email, every doc, twelve words where five would do. At some point I said the phrase out loud, long story short, and realised it was a game.

So: you get a twelve-word sentence. You rephrase it in exactly five of its own words. Real English, same meaning, your job is to work out which words carry the sentence and which are just dressed up to look important. Scoring is Wordle style, blue for right word in the right spot, orange for in the answer but elsewhere, grey for out. Five tries, one sentence a day.

My wife and my brother were the playtesters. An early version let "the" beat proper words in the answer, which felt awful to lose to, so the answers now always favour the concrete word. That one change ate a whole weekend.

I really want to study English Language and Creative Writing but I cannot justify the £5k a year on open university. If I don’t care about the label and saying hey I have a BA, how realistic is it for me to study using libraries, YouTube and books and learn the same things as if I went to uni for 3-6 years?

I know the information is there but without a dedicated class or professor, how does one know what to do or study next? Who would critique my understanding? I’m trying to decide if it’s doable and if I should just start planning for Uni.

Info: I don’t qualify for any financial help, I work full time, am a mother and adult not living with parents.

Goal is to be a novelist and I know I don’t need degrees for this but I love to learn and study.

does anyone have experience they can share about being in a split class in CA public school?

my kiddo was put in a TK/K split and is in the TK cohort. the school admin gave me a sales presentation on why it’s a good thing when I voiced my concerns about the placement. essentially they said tough luck and tried to tell me parents prefer a split and he will have more one on one time.

This is primarily directed at higher ed students but all are welcome too. I'm looking to get a sense of the various opinions/feelings on AI generated media in courses specifically. So graphics, images/"photography", video, etc.

If you know something is AI generated do you still trust the content presented?

Are all uses okay? Are all not okay? Are there uses that are okay and others that are not? When and why?

Do you have a different feeling if the AI media is a small amount and there is primarily non-AI media in other parts of the course?

Does the use of AI media impact your perception of the school? Faculty?

Any and all opinions are welcome, please feel free to elaborate on why you feel a particular way. Thank you!

Hi, I just started my junior year of high school, and quite frankly I am disgusted by my state’s education system. It’s abysmal, requiring massive policy upheavals. Nobody is given the opportunity to live up to their full potential. So, if possible, I’d like to do something to change it. The problem is, I’m a bit stumped because I feel absolutely powerless.

For more direct context, I live in New Mexico. It is one of (if not the) lowest ranked states education-wise in the country, and from what I’ve seen is only getting worse. I know that this is also largely due to poverty, but one can’t help but feel like schools are designed to nip attempts of escaping impoverishment in the bud. I, myself, work with a tutoring group to help serve elementary school students who are behind, but my impact is small and it’s hard to make progress when (and I can’t emphasize this enough) they’re missing YEARS of content. I’m very worried for what the future might hold if things continue to trend downwards , and the American public just gets dumber and dumber until we can’t function without the government’s oh-so-benevolent handholding.

That said, if anyone has experience with stuff like this or tips in general, I’d really appreciate it.

Also, I didn’t take too long to write this (it’s mostly just train of thought) so if you need some clarification on anything please ask. I could spiel for days.

Hello everyone I’m a 19 20 in September male who is seriously behind on most thing I had a undiagnosed authority problem in school I have Oppositional Defiant Disorder or (ODD) I have it in check now and days but it seriously set me back on all my academics I didn’t learn how to read till 6th grade and am not great at math I’d say I’m ok with plus and timetables and division but not fast or rly grabbing the basics basically what happened was I found my way of doing them then told it was wrong then years later figuring out it was right all along but by that point I had lost the motivation to fix it I currently read better now then some elders and degree holders I know I’m in college now and getting good grades but would like to get up and catch up no matter what it takes but am at a loss for how exactly to do that if you have any ideas or knowledge as to how I’d be very grateful to hear them thank you all

Felt bad for the teacher as it comes off that they are truly passionate about the youth. Feel terrible for the kids whose parents allowed this. Is this as rampant as it seems to be.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/texas-high-school-teacher-breaks-down-in-tears-on-video-over-illiterate-students/ar-AA2a1DqX?ocid=socialshare

So last year my son was bullied relentlessly upon entering high school. It affected him so drastically that his confidence took a complete nosedive that never fully recovered. I had to pull him out of school because he refused to go. I moved him from NY to my old high school in NJ (with my parents) for the rest of the school year, where he encountered no further issues. I found and applied my son to a charter school for the following year, and things were looking great at first.

At the end of the school year, I moved him back up to NY. My parents are moving and so he cannot continue in NJ. I waited to hear from the charter school for next steps. When I did, the woman was strangely cold as she informed me that because of block scheduling in NJ, my son was short 2 courses and would not be able to enter the 10th grade. She said that she would get back to me regarding alternative options, but somehow I knew that I'd never hear from her again, and I never did. The problem is that this woman appears to "run" the entire charter school, even though she is not even the principal. She seems to have developed some kind of vendetta against me as well. When I called back I found out from someone else that the charter school offers makeup courses that would resolve our issue, something the woman never mentioned. That person said that they would get back to me. That person never did.

I briefly tried to get in touch with the public school, but they were similarly apathetic and unresponsive, and my son has no interest in setting foot in the building anyway.

At this point I feel completely abandoned by the school system. If I do nothing I will be forced to home school my son, which I am willing to do even as a single mother who works full time. But can I at least make a complaint so this never happens to anyone else again? And to whom? Is there any option I haven't thought of? Please help.

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im aware this is bad 😭😭 some info, 20 year old female in the us

i attended a university freshly out of high school from 2024-2026. i paid maybe $1600 out of pocket since i had a tuition based scholarship, fafsa, and other external scholarships. my second semester of freshman year, i did TERRIBLE. same with my entire sophomore year. my gpa is a 1.995. need a 2.0 in the us to be in good standing, or at-least the institution i went to. anyways, i decided to enroll in community college & get an associates degree so i could have something as a back bone. well, i went to enroll in the payment plan today, and it requires a 25% down payment which equates to $698. i have no way to get $698 by august 21st. do i just enroll for the october 8 week classes, or do i take a gap year? im so broke & have NOTHING. no apartment, no car, no certifications. quite literally an effing bum. need some advice from people who have been in like conditions. thank u!

I’ve seen so many people joking about how younger kids nowadays have really weird or unusual names that you wouldn’t find a baby name book. Is this true, or overdramtized? If it is true, I’d love to hear the weirdest name you’ve ever heard as a teacher

Hi everyone! I recently finished building Next Dollar, a 90-minute financial literacy course designed primarily for teens preparing to leave home.

It covers paychecks, banking, budgeting, credit, loans, education costs, moving out, and investing, and includes interactive simulations throughout.

I’m looking for a small number of people willing to complete it for free and give honest feedback on the content, clarity, and overall experience. You do not have to be a teen—parents, educators, and other adults are welcome too.

Please comment or message me if you’re interested, and I’ll send you a free access code.

Full disclosure: this is a course I created and normally sell, but access is completely free for testers.

I just started online school, and I have no idea how I am going to be able to focus and learn efficiently because I'd be alone doing work independently. I have tutors but they are only once a week and I feel like that isnt enough to work with and I'm just worried that I will be demotivated.

I’m a Quebec high school student who has just graduated but I can’t obtain my diploma since I failed the ministry science exam and missed the retake due to a pre-planned trip into another country. What can I do?

The world feels increasingly fractured because we don't put enough emphasis on empathy and emotional intelligence. We don't need more highly intelligent people in positions of power who lack the ability to understand or care about how their decisions affect others. A leader or business owner can generate revenue while still causing serious harm to society, the environment, and the people who work for them.

We shouldn't be surprised that society struggles when schools do so little to develop empathy, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal skills.

If we consider ourselves an intelligent society, we should be able to recognize this. Intellectual ability alone clearly isn't enough to solve complex social problems.

We keep repeating the same patterns while expecting different outcomes.

The world already has abundant resources, yet some people accumulate far more than they need while prioritizing themselves over the wellbeing of others. Education could play a much larger role in developing people who understand the consequences of that behavior.

And when people say, "Parents should teach this," I have to ask: what about the parents who were never taught these skills themselves?

We will really look back and think "Wow, they really thought that teaching kids only math and history would make them good citizens?"

I want to know since I am in my 2nd year of community college.

I am,.. exasperated. My 11-year-old daughter, who will be entering sixth grade this fall, feels woefully behind from what I remember at her age. I’m well aware that memory can be deceptive, but I remember singing the states alphabetically, I remember tests where we had to write the names of states, continents, and oceans on blank images. But it’s recently come to my attention that my daughter doesn’t know any of this. She can’t tell me the difference between a state and a continent. And quite frankly, at this age, that scares me.

At the same time, I know it’s not a learning disability. She is a smart kid. But I’m concerned she’s just not getting a proper education. Can someone explain if this is common in the American education system now? I can’t wrap my head around what I’m experiencing. I understand I have a role in this, and trust me, I’ll be stepping up, but this seems to be remedial stuff.