Watch: When Asked to Read Short Sentences, HS Students at One of Philly's Most Diverse Schools Colla

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Watch: When Asked to Read Short Sentences, HS Students at One of Philly's Most Diverse Schools Collapse

 By Michael Schwarz
  May 4, 2026 at 1:29pm
Besides enriching themselves, America’s leadership class has failed at everything, including their promises to educate young people.

In a pair of viral videos posted on the social media platform TikTok, students at Philadelphia’s Preparatory Charter School of Mathematics, Science, Technology and Careers — one of Pennsylvania’s “most diverse schools,” per the New York Post — struggled either to read a simple sentence or to make sense of it in their own words.

The first video, posted by TikTok user “whatthevek,” featured students who could not read the following sentence: “She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche.”

All five students stumbled on the words “silhouette,” “extraordinary,” and “gauche.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-asked-read-short-sentences-hs-students-one-phillys-diverse-schools-collapse/

[PeteS in CA]

A high school senior in Philadelphia made a video series asking fellow seniors to read a simple sentence written in english

https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/2050984073175146981?s=20

A high school senior in Philadelphia made a video series asking fellow seniors to read a simple sentence written in english and they're incapable of completing the simple task.

... this one went viral for obvious reasons and now the school is saying he may not be allowed to graduate from the charter school
due to the videos.

The school seems completely fine with students not being able to read but they're not okay with the public seeing that they can't read.

Charter schools are still overseen by the gooberment, so I wonder if his school's principal is being moronic or if it's the district educrats ... or both.

[berdie]

I was under the impression that a parent had to pay for their child to attend.

If that is the case, why are the parents sending them to a school that doesn't the basics. Sure, every kids needs assistance from home but that seems ridiculous to me.

[Smokin Joe]

Is this from a branch of The Learing Center?

(Enquiring minds want to know)