Preach! I also worked in a variety of school settings. I completed my student-teaching in a rural town, then spent the first 7 years of my career in a Title I school, and finally ended my career in a very affluent school district--one of the best rated schools in my state. I thought that getting hired in an affluent district would be the answer to my prayers. I thought I would *finally* be able to enjoy my teaching career now that I was in a good school. I didn't think behavior would be a problem. I thought the admin would support teachers. I thought parents would be involved by partnering with teachers. In other words, I thought it would be totally different from the Title I school. Oh, how wrong I was. I can say, with complete honesty, that the rural, Title I and affluent schools all have the exact same issues --just at different stages and were manifested in different ways. Across the board, there was student entitlement, parental bullying, feckless administrators that approached education as a customer service industry, and veteran teachers that told me to get out of this career before I got stuck! I can't tell you the number of veteran teachers, who were near the end of their careers, that told all of us young teachers to save ourselves before it was too late. They explained that they were too close to retirement to leave, but we were still young enough to jump ship. I, and thousands of other teachers across this nation, finally listened and put ourselves first. Hence, this mass teacher exodus that will only get worse in 2024. I'm grateful for every former teacher (like you) who is exposing just how bad things are. Everybody better listen up and take heed! I also want to share that I (like many people who dreamed of being a teacher since we were little ) thought that my youth, energy and enthusiasm would be enough to help fix the system. I thought that if I just rolled up my sleeves and poured everything into my job, it would be enough to have a fulfilling career. I was so wrong. Each year that I stayed in Education, the hard truth kept slapping me in the face. I had to finally acknowledge the reality of the situation, which is...we have a PARENTING and CULTURE problem in this society. You are 1000% correct! And those who are offended by this should really look within themselves, because chances are they are part of the problem. I guess I'm a fellow "boomer millennial" because I'm also in my 30s and just astonished at how low our society has fallen. When I was a kid, I never dreamed of seeing such lawlessness and degradation of basic values. I'm not saying everyone should be a saint, but like the young teacher said in her TikTok, 5 year olds singing Pound Town in a ballet class is a reflection of how BROKEN this society is. My goodness! It took 10 years of being a teacher to finally realize that no matter what I or other well-intentioned teachers did, we could not continue to carry the ills of society on our shoulders. We are tasked with being parents, parole officers, counselors, truancy officers, counselors, and mentors. IT'S TOO MUCH. Those of us that went into this profession with the best of intentions are finally leaving because we realize we're destroying our own lives and mental health...and for what? We certainly can't change what's happening to society as a whole. We clearly can't change the Education system because no one listens to us. Our expertise is completely disregarded. We are disrespected at every turn. Admin throws us under the bus because they want to placate parents and students (even in cases where the parents and students are clearly wrong). Parents demand grades that their kids haven't earned, which means these kids get pushed through the system even though they are functionally illiterate and innumerate. Students are completely entitled and are coddled to such an extent that I fear for the future of this country. Why would any teacher--especially if they are nowhere close to retirement--try to "hang on" when the system is clearly beyond repair at this point? Why would someone continue to give 110% every single day, only get 10% back (if that)? At some point, it's time to walk away. If you are a fellow teacher that has left the profession, congratulations! I am so happy for you. Please know that we understand you did the best that you could. I know, first hand, what teaching took out of you. As such, you are not a failure for quitting. You put yourself and your family first, which is to be commended! The kids who appreciated you and your teaching style will never forget the positive impact you made on their lives. Please hold on to that. I'm still on a journey of healing after my decade in the classroom, but what often gives me peace is knowing that it wasn't all a waste -- that there are students who are grateful that I was part of their life's story. For those of you who are not teachers, please watch all of the TikToks and TH-cam videos of teachers explaining why they left. Not only should it scare the crap out of you, I hope it motivates you to take heed of all the warnings. Please share the videos to help wake people up to what's going on. Trish, keep making these videos!
Everything you said is ABSOLUTELY correct. In fact, I also taught at two different title one schools and later an affluent school. In my experience the parents from the affluent school were the worst because the had money and thought that meant they were important and "owned" you as a teacher. I am in my second year of retirement and hung on those last five years. The result was high blood pressure. It was also affecting other areas for health. Since retirement my blood pressure is consistently lower. We have a crises indeed. There is also the added fact that a faction of leadership in this country don't believe in free public education and are working behind the scenes to end it.
My son started high school this year. At parent teacher night, I found out that his math teacher cries every day. She was holding back tears as she came & thanked me for raising a respectable student. I had no idea it was this bad. My son has baked brownies & muffins to bring her, just because. Math is his least liked subject, but wants to brighten her day.
Thanks for your kindness. When I was a teacher, I used to cry every day. Then I became numb and didn't feel anything anymore. That's when I knew it was time for a career change. I just couldn't believe how many people stood by and let me take the fall fall for everything. Honestly, it was so traumatic. You never really get over an experience like that. I'll never be the same as I was before all that...im sure she will remember you and your son for the rest of her life.
I’ve had so many experiences where I have been blamed or thrown under the bus. My first year is a classic example. It didn’t matter if I was the teacher, Teacher Assistant, or substitute. It seems like there is a lot of cruel colleagues, parents, and administrators. To them, if you don’t go along with their program, then it must be your fault. Struggling with student discipline? It couldn’t POSSIBLY be anyone’s fault but yours. It didn’t matter if you had a group of parents already known for their constant complaints. It didn’t matter if your students were known for giving virtually every teacher a hard time and that the veteran teacher last year had problems with them as well. It didn’t matter that admin kept stuffing students in your class until they had the max amount allowed without giving you a full time aid (up to 24 students with a part time aid and 25 you must have a full time aid). Guess how many students I had by the end of the year? 24. It didn’t matter that you had the worst possible schedule (and a confusing one for the kids at that) that made it impossible to get things done. Oh. And you have to teach on a kinder level even though your kids are pre-k, but make it fun and include free centers and a nap. Try to find a way to meet with every kid every day in literacy centers. Did I mention they wanted the kids to be able to write sentences by the end of the year even though they were four and five years old!?? Oh. You have only one bathroom, but all of your kids will need to go at the exact same time. I received almost no support from admin. All the teachers felt like they were not allowed to send kids to the office. Admin didn’t like it when we had students sit out for recess or go to another classroom. They didn’t even like it when we changed their color. Even back then, this new generation had a hard time sitting for more than a few minutes at a time. Admin. sided with the parents almost every time. Despite all the odds, I still managed to get many of them where they needed to be. All this to say, I cried soooo many times that first year and I had to take the fall for things despite not everything being my fault.
I haven’t found a verified academic source for that quote being of Plato in any case. The source is modern because it was said by a university president in 1967 (he claimed Plato said it). Plato wrote about youth but that exact quote , don’t know how he came up with it. I think the president said it because the 60s had a lot of riots.
Another thing is that Plato wrote that well over 2,000 years ago. It’s interesting that people don’t think that things have decayed even more since then.
True story: I had an administrator tell me I had to start providing all supplies to my students such as pencils, notebook paper, erasers, etc etc or a parent was going to sue the school for not providing a "totally free and public education." I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Let me know what day and what courtroom." And I walked out. The parent DID sue, and of course...lost. Judge ruled that free and public education did NOT mean "supplies." Smh!!!!
This is why I homeschool and opt out of paying taxes for education in my neighborhood. They don't even pay for basic necessities in the promised free education. It wasnt you as a teacher's responsibility. The super is in charge of allocating funding and they are failing big time. The superintendent of Clark county where I live gets a salary of 15 million a year and teachers are making minimum wage and having to buy supplies.
That’s what I used to say! I called it “Every Child Left Behind”. Thank goodness I’m retired! Not good circumstances though, the students who were impossible won!
All true. I just left my school using an exclusively “positive” approach to school discipline. In the last year I needed x-rays twice, was hit, kicked, punched, bitten drawing blood, been stabbed with pencils….and on and on. Consequences? Zero. The final straw was seeing a child punch a classmate in the head 3-4x per week and entirely excused as a “manifestation of disability”. Heartbreaking for the aggressor who is learning that hurting people is excusable, and for the victim who is being forced to share a classroom with someone who hurts her. I couldn’t watch it anymore. We need wholesale reform.
A lot of this also comes from ese kids who should never have been mainstreamed into regular classrooms. Some ese kids can, but many do not belong in a classroom with other kids, because they are violent.
Im a teacher. Once I complained about student discipline to my family and my dad, a retired juvenille probation officer, said that he didn’t think it was a good idea when some of the kids were mainstreamed into the classroom. This is coming from a retired juvenille probation officer who has to walk the fine line between tough love and giving kids a second chance. He did see change in some of the kids, but I’m sure he saw repeat offenders, too.
Kids have not always been this way. I spent 32 years in the classroom. I never dealt with this behavior. It was the administration that drove me out and the expectations and work that increased consistently every year.
Just cause they act differently doesn't mean they are different. Thinking children change in a short period of time is a complete delusion and being a teacher and know nothing about children show how fake the job is. Children have always been the same. U guys do nothing but repeat the book they are forced to learn even a caretaker might be better for children.
They're creating a school to prison pipeline. This will be the cheapest form of labor and legal slavery. This has been in the works for years and it's been designed. It's not just here this is a global problem. Discipline prepares children for life. I'm not talking about throwing them about. Lack of discipline sets them up for failure thus creating monsters. Hold them and their parents responsible because if they're not, an entire generation, will be doomed. They will become antisocial, violent, entitled, delusional, etc. These kids are being raised on social media by parents too busy, tired or lazy either way it's not good.
@@aaad3552 Do you have a brain in your head? Children have not always been the same. There was very little talking back when I was growing up and teachers were not quitting. I bet your a liberal that loves that idea of not holding kids or even criminals accountable for their actions.
I did my student teaching (4th grade) with a mentor who had been teaching 3rd-5th grade since 1996. She was one of those super decorated, passionate, teacher-of-the-year types who had such a wonderful reputation in the school/community. The 4th grade students we taught together were absolutely off the wall no matter what classroom management or de-escalation strategies we used. She said that in her 26 years of teaching, these were by far the worst behaved kids that nothing could have prepared her to properly handle, and it was making her lose her passion to teach. I thought that I was just being sensitive and inexperienced (as someone who hadn't even finished college yet), but it was very eye-opening to hear it from an experienced veteran like her.
I started teaching in 90's. I saw two trends that made me wonder who was at the helm. 1. Technical programs were shut down so kids couldn't graduate HS with a credential to get a job in auto repair, electrical work, etc. Instead, everybody 'had to go to college' regardless of ability or interest. HS teachers warned this would be a problem down the road with unemployable young adults. They were ignored. And here we are with the results. 2. Special ed students were being mainstreamed with no thought as to how their behaviors would affect the classroom. Three students who constantly disrupt a classroom bring learning to a halt for the other students; apparently that wasn't an important enough issue to warrant consideration.
One we were scared of our mothers. What I loved about back then was the book a teacher gave you with the answer to your question. 😂 I learned how to program looking for one answer. 😊 As a mother it was non-stop arguing with the administration for a teacher. In my case I knew most kids families in my kids class. But then again they knew I didn't play. The good old days
Agreed, but as a SPED teacher, they push us to put students in LREs. I don't always agree with the CSE decisions, but we have to go with the IEP set forth. Imagine our 12:1:1 or 15:1 rooms. I had kids in my 12:1:1 that did not have a 1 to 1 TA, even though their IEP called for it. Imagine now, I had 5 students in my 12:1:1 with that on their IEPs and only 2 aids. Half my kids were not even toileting themselves. So usually that left only one aid in my room at any given time. I also had 3 runners, so the door had to be constantly watched. Try to teach in that environment. And that's without the daily meltdowns. Lack of staff was a huge problem.
I totally agree with you especially the special ed kids. I feel bad for the teachers having to put up with special kid meltdowns. I think they should have special schools for them because most of them if they aren't too well off in social situations they go into groups homes. I've run some homes and some don't do well
@@ayzc4164 I disagree, respectfully, but believe at times lack of staff with appropriate training and breaks/ compensation for non-teachers in those rooms need to be addressed. The TAs do a tremendous amount of work and are never rewarded accordingly. Schools have the capacity and ability but attitudes of people that think that students with disabilities should be hidden away in “Special Schools “ are wrong. I’ve had some of the most rewarding relationships with students in my SPED classroom that far rose above any in a reg ed class I’ve taught. And they have better senses of humor, for the most part.
My first day as a middle school teacher, 2 years ago, a kid threw a desk at me after first hour… in my school experience as a kid in the 90’s… I had never seen that. I’ve busted kids for vaping in class, having sex in the bathroom, for assaulting me (I’m 6’1” 240 lbs and he was 5’5” and obviously stupid), and a millions of different things. I get yelled at for any type of discipline I’ve tried to install. Oh as far as the neighborhood things go… I teach in a rural town. A colleague of mine was attacked by a first grader (punched in the throat) on a Friday and the sub who filled in on Monday for her and guess what kid was still in class? The parents of the kid claimed racism and the kid got no punishment. HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!
"for assaulting me (I’m 6’1” 240 lbs and he was 5’5” and obviously stupid)," yeah well..... next time the kid will "wise up" and bring a weapon, a knife or a gun, to school. school was bad when I was there decades ago - now it is basically prison rules in there.
These horror stories from teachers make me think of the old movie, Dangerous Minds, except it's not just rebellious high schoolers in some neighborhoods, it's now everywhere, and in all age groups. I strongly agree with your suggestion to HOMESCHOOL. I can't imagine sending well-behaved, innocent children to school with wild children that don't just bully their peers, but that are now physically attacking teachers... We know what this kind of behavior leads to... Sadly some will have a future in the prison system. That's what parents are setting their children up for. A lifetime of thinking that they can get away with anything and there are no consequences. I blame the parents. It's their responsibility to raise their own children. Proverbs 22:6 KJV - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
My daughter is 5 and just started school . Public school has ruined her , she’s brought home some awful behaviors . I am really thinking about homeschooling . These parents need to handle their kids !
There isn't a money shortage, but a money distribution problem. The average per K-12 student in the U.S. is $15,800 or $474,000 per 30 student classroom.
RE Money: Y wont you say it? Less admin = more funds available. Less curriculum changes = stable and refined learning (and, again, more funds). Limit digital interaction to specialty class/lab-only = stable and refined learning (and, again, more funds). RE Respect: U get it when you give it. To parents. U r supposed to exude authority over children. They are not your friends.
@@lucycat4305 Wow that sure touched a nerve with me. My ex left the first year both kids were in school, and I understand that statistically that's a real common time for divorce. Lemmie back up, we were able to arrange life/work so that my kids never attended daycare. I was a very committed parent. But suddenly having to pay all the bills with half the money, and at the same time come up with the money for a lawyer and fairly frequent, child care because I couldn't tailor my hours to coordinate with a non existant partner, put a giant stress on every kind of resource. I was very lucky to be a college graduate with a decent job. The problem isn't women having opportunities outside the home and the protection that provides if they suddenly become single, (is that what you were driving at?) The problem is men having the legal and social freedom to walk away and distance themselves from their children on the basis of their ex being "unpleasant" or "difficult". A a society we accept that lame excuse, we shouldn't. The other problem is the lack of consequence. When I was in school you had consequences, I never heard of a school division being afraid of being sued or lowering expectations because parents were upset. If they didn't like it, they could send their kids to private school, which they couldn't afford, so they pressed their kids to stay out of trouble.
I absolutely agree. I teach elementary and so many of the kids in my classes are absolutely disrespectful and rude. You can be the nicest teacher in the world and have top tier classroom management and these kid's attitudes and behaviors are still deplorable. I'm saddened for the well behaved, good students in my classes whose education is getting ruined by these out of control, disrespectful kids. Awful student behaviors is the number one reason I want to find a different career, and this is my 3rd year teaching.
I’m in my second year teaching. I’m not a classroom teacher, but I’m sticking around long enough to have enough years of experience to keep my retirement when I become of that age. That’s two more years. And I am finished. Because I’m not getting any younger and I want children of my own, but I do not dare try to juggle 200+ other kids along with my own. My family doesn’t deserve that.
I have 24 years of ridiculous stories that I have tried to compile and if I look at them over time, I can (very clearly) see how severe the decline of respect is from ALL sides. The teacher is the epicenter of all criticism: Kids hate the teachers, parents back the kids and undermine the teachers, (*SOME*) admins are often spineless and throw teachers under the bus, society blames teachers for all problems (and accuse us of stealing tax revenue for glorified babysitting), and the school board are so catatonic that they cannot make any decisions so they make teachers the scapegoat of all problems.
Welp, soon they won’t Have Teachers. Wait till the politicians get their hands on the adults these kids turn into. I can already see it. Convince them to close down schools to cut taxes , and a systematic scapegoating of public school teachers will occur. It will be SO easy too. Like all they have to do is point out how “little good” teachers did for them.
The thing about Gen Alpha is that they're savage but they are soooo sensitive. To be frank, my clapback and document game is strong. As a result, the students, parents, and admin already know what time it is with me. However, this profession is a toxic waste zone. These kids think they are equal to you because their parents precipitate this kind of unhealthy relationship with them. Admin are afraid of students and their parents and there is this undertone to cater to every single ridiculous, unrealistic and unnecessary complaint and/or adjustment. I'm not gonna be in it for much longer, it is a losing battle. However, i pray that everry teacher who leaves or stay find peace, joy and a place that allows them to do what they love with a substantial income. God bless ya'll and hold on; every storm must pass over.
have you noticed that the (mostly black but really all races) so called thugs are very .... feminine? they do not look muscular, they do not look manly. they literally walk like girls (used to back in the day). and anything even slightly critical said to them results in a temper tantrum. and they will shoot you for "disrespect".
Not only are they savage yet sensitive af, BUT THEY CHAMPION SAVAGERY. THAT IS FUCKING TERRIFYING. THEY CHEER THAT ON IF YOU ARE A SAVAGE, THEN THEY CHAMPION YOU AS THEIR “QUEEN” and they say “SLAY” Like…just the language alone, and language is the foundation of a society, is concerning. Stay prayed up.
Teacher from Germany here: it’s interesting to see that teachers in other countries struggle with discipline or the lack thereof in parenting as well. Our classes are mixed with regular student and special ed students. My personal experience is that parents do not parent anymore for whatever reasons. The kids lack a fundamental basis of empathy for others and they cannot put themselves in other people’s shoes. They are super sensitive but hurl out insults and/or hurt others physically casually (there is a game where kids actually insult each other for fun). Kids need to learn that they are part of a society and therefore need to behave accordingly. But that is something that’s not happening anymore. It’s just me me me all the time.
I´m also a teacher in Germany and I feel the same, really. Only a few years back calling the parents about their child´s misbehaviour would have consequences. But now, when you say you´ll have to talk to their parents about their behaviour if they don´t stop doing xx, they´ll just shrug and say "go ahead then, they won´t do anything anyway" and they´re absolutely right. Consequences given by the school will even be challenged by the parents sometimes. In student-teacher-conversations about insults, fights etc. I´ve also noticed that more and more students absolutely don´t care if they hurt anyone, be it physically or emotionally.
You act like this is a new thing. I grew up playing a game where shouted slurs and tackled each other I'm 37. Teachers standing there in full view and earshot.
@@mtc-j9i really? I work in the lowest tier (Hauptschule) in a big city and I would say that tier mainly exists so the better-off can gatekeep their status quo.
We need to accept the reality that for a lot of parents, kids are something that happened to them and they’re just doing time with them. They had their kids without thought and without a partner or a plan. They just stick an iPad in front of him/her and feed it Mac and Cheese.
That's every generation of parents, though. For most parents, even back then, kids "just happened". The part I agree with is how parents approach parenthood: negligence to raising them. Yes, kids are difficult, they're probably accidents, and you may end up with more than one. However, parents owe a responsibility to them and to society. Parents nowadays expect the school system to raise their own kids, even feed them to an extent.
@@stevennguyen4993I disagree with the first part of your comment and wholeheartedly agree with the last part. I would like to add that the difference is the degree to which people take responsibility once they have kids. THAT is the big difference.
@@stevennguyen4993The problems got way worse after welfare reform. Prior to that you didn't see children coming into the world for the sole purpose of enabling mothers to collect benefits. In addition to that we really live in a society today that minimizes the importance of attentive parenting.
Sorry not so with majority of greatest generation or silent generation. This is a babyboomer n beyond issue. The younger the generation the worse it gets. Indoctrination via libtard schools @stevennguyen4993
Former classroom teacher. I can teach your kids but you, the parent, have to raise them first. Kid needs accommodations? Great, let's do it! Kid doesn't want to even sit down and listen and throw the book at me, nope! And obviously, I am a working parent and I have never spanked my kid. My kid has manners and expectations. Imagine that!
My child learned children's rights in the first grade, came home and started telling me what a can't do to her. Take away the cell phone (right to communicate), forbid socializing with children (right to socialize), yell at her.. Children are left in real abusive families, and parents from ordinary families have social services pulled over their necks if the children complain at school. Fortunately, my daughter (after I explained) understood that with rights come responsibilities, but the school somehow missed that point.. 🤔
@@tulip811 Ehm, why not? That was the only form of communication until we got home from work because we don't have a regular phone in the house. Why do you immediately think that means spending a ton of time on it? In addition, I didn't even say that my problem with her was about the phone, but she recited all the rights when she came home from school, so there is no room for a "your fault" comment.
Everything about this is 100% spot on! I’m in my 4th year of teaching middle school and I’ve had it. I’m sick of the constant arguing and managing 13/14 year olds who still act like 3rd graders. No Child Left Behind was the worst thing that ever could have been done to education-the kids have no motivation to try because they know they’ll get passed if they just sit and do nothing all year. They don’t care-so why should I?
No Child Left Behind was overturned during the Obama administration. Common Core is now the guiding policy. I know lots of folks HATE Common Core. I LOVE the concept of Common Core - but lots of text books are horrible. But there's not been any NCLB for a long time. It was a George W. Bush thing.
No respect,no discipline, no rules, no accountability ,no punishment, no responsibility.this generation is done for so sad. I pray for the teachers today.
You should be more concerned when these kids enter adulthood, the workforce, and vote. It's gonna make the late 80s early 90s crime wave look like Mr Roger's neighborhood
The problem is that teachers are dilly-dallying instead of whizzing through the content while going into more detail. That will make it fun for the ones who are interested whilst overwhelming and shaming the ones who are not. On top of that it would be possible to use the responsibility of needing to learn everything you need to solve every problem the world has to create discipline. Imagine how different schools would look if the terror of every single one of the world's problems provided consequences in the form of nightmares. They would study obsessively if someone made sure they woke up to just 1% of the world's suffering.
I’ve been at custodian at multiple levels of public school, and I can tell you in the past 3 to 4 years. The kids have gotten noticeably worse. Few kids have any respect for the adults in the building or their peers. They intentionally throw food around in the cafeteria and make messes it’s gotten to the point where I pick up The food and throw it back at them and make them clean it. I don’t care if I get in trouble.
Good! That's exactly what you should do! If my kid threw food on the wall, I would have no problem with you doing this. My parents were janitors for several years and taught me how important it was to clean up after myself in facilities. It also helped growing up between Japan and the US. In Japan, the kids are responsible for cleaning their own school. You make a mess, you get to deal with your classmates who have to clean it up! You also learn to stay clean because the messier the school, the longer you have to stay after school
I was a school bus driver for 7 yrs. I quit in 2023 despite the driver shortage. Often it felt like I was driving a corrections bus to the state pen. There were good kids but many acted like inmates. There will always be shortages in school staff because parents and kids are often rotten to the core.
When you have a class of 30+ students and 5 of them are constant behavior problems, unfortunately those 5 tend to take up all your time, attention, and energy. That leaves very little to give to the other 25 students who are better behaved and actually want to learn. I went home each day exhausted yet feeling like I’d let those 25 down. It has gotten much worse in the last 4-5 years. Over a 24 year career I went from loving the job to dreading it. I quit a year ago, and it’s the best decision I ever made.
This!! These dynamics of 30+ kids and 3+ behavior kids in one classroom with one teacher is not reflected in the intervention research. They create a self reinforcing subgroup within the classroom. It is so real. I was a behavior kid and I’m so glad I was the only behavior kid in my elementary classes😂
When there are only a handful of kids with behavior problems per grade level the school can separate them so that each class only has one - two at most. Nowadays there are just too many to do that. I taught middle schoolers. When you have a several they tend to egg each other on or even compete. Sometimes kids who used to be respectful start acting out as well to be seen as cool.
I truly believe the worst thing ever for all humans has been social media with access everywhere via smart devices. Things really changed when smartphones came out and not just for the youth, but also for the old. Yes, some good has come from social media such as connecting with people you might never have met or raising money for those in need via crowd funding, but the bad far outweighs the good. My husband and I are both teachers and so many kids are truly messed up (in a variety of ways) by their addiction to tech. My parents political views have been radicalized by what they watch online and they have no idea the bubble they are in and they get angry if I even mention a different viewpoints. I was in the last generation without internet in every home and without cell phones (just before flip phones) and I'mm so thankful for the great childhood and high school experience I had. I don't envy the children of today one bit.
Teachers are getting bullied and then gaslit by admins and some "social justice" teachers. No these kids are different. I taught millennials and Gen Z. Millennials even in the hood were fine. Now I have an out of classroom position and am so relieved. I miss teaching but the cell phone has changed the dynamics. It is parents and no school discipline but also cell phone addiction. When you brought up shoplifting it really affected me because it is rampant now in my area to the point I mostly shop online. There is incredible peer pressure to conform.
Omg don't even get me started on cell phones. I'm 27 and I'm on tik tok like everyone else. But kids don't need to me using phones at school ! I taught 2nd grade and there were kids filming videos in the bathrooms....
Especially these social justice young teachers butting into experienced teachers classes only to later realize the kid is playing them and then treat the bad kid worse.
This. The screens and the phones and tables and all that ideology and violence on streaming shows and the Internet are creating these behaviors. Millenials were depressed. We were not "fine". Educational system sucks since then and before and it needed to be improved urgently, but instead it was made much much worse. They even stopped praying at schools.
Yeah the point you made about private Christian schools being 10x worse are absolutely true!! I got bullied to the point where I was threatening to unalive myself, and I got kicked out for being suicidal but my bullies were protected!! My daughter will not be going to a Christian school!! Ps: the reason I was bullied was because I had epilepsy. Pps: the bullies weren’t just kids, they were teachers too!!
I used to go to a private Christian school until my 11th grade year and switched to a public rural school. It wasn't perfect but the fellow students were a lot more friendly.
Oh man, I went to a Christian school in the 90's and even then it was bad. I was bullied by my classmates and teachers and when my parents tried to get those responsible held accountable, they claimed I was lying and just trying to "stir up trouble". It was a pretty toxic school, and it was such a relief when my parents finally pulled me out of it.
No, I went to school in the 1960s and 70s. Teachers were respected. Even kids with discipline problems respected them and were quiet in class, after the first three "be quiet"s. Parents respected the teachers, and a teacher with 3 years experience could buy a condo. Now it is impossible.
That was when your parent, your community, your government and your school worked together . There were less "administrators", no police officers titled as "resource officers" and fewer unions. Now? O boy.
If we did anything wrong in the neighborhood or in school we would hear about it when we got home and we knew that. If a neighbor saw something they would call your mom and she would BELIEVE them, not just claim we were little angels. Also we would be outside all day during our free time. We had our own adventures, games and learning. I can fix things, I can build things, I can even find my way around without GPS, can you believe it?
Part of the problem is also the positive reinforcement techniques that schools began to embrace in the early 2000s. The problem child soon learns that they can be bad 99% of the time, but the second they want something, they can be good and will be the child chosen because its all about focusing on good behavior and not punishing bad behavior. This is not only an injustice to the good kids, but it also teaches the problem kids how to manipulate to get what they want. 🤷
My wife get so mad when the admins tell her to reward a kid for doing something they should do as in sit down. This is in the 5th grade. Half of them still don’t know how to add or subtract.
@@SMCwasTakensending a child back to class with a lollipop, pep talk, and a pat on the back after being removed for being disruptive teaches them they get a break and a lollipop. So no, the type of positive reinforcement they’re doing in schools is not producing great results.
The biggest negative change I see in school discipline over the past 60 years (that really nobody in the know really debates) is not that kids and teens misbehave (for, it's true they always have and always will do that) it's that THE PARENTS/GUARDIANS AND THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS NO LONGER SIDE WITH (nor help/lead) THE TEACHERS in trying to CORRECT student misbehavior when it occurs like they once did. Instead, too many parents today are too lazy, too self-absorbed, too narcissistic, or just simply too drug-addicted themselves to face or even care when their child has behavior issues. And the administrators are so frightened of these dysfunctional parents and their attorneys, that sadly, all too often, the school administration usually sides with the psycho parent against the teacher, to keep from getting sued and lose their chance to get promoted someday to the happy hunting-ground known as the "central office.". This was rare 60 years ago, but has increasingly become the norm. So, the poor teacher is now too often forced to parent, teach, and discipline the child WITHOUT THE POWER TO DO ANY OF THE THREE effectively. So, of course they quit. What the hell else can they do in a society that no longer has the resolve and love of truth necessary to completely commit to success any more? You end up creating a nation filled with lazy, manipulative, self-destructive sycophants and bureaucrats rather than one filled with virtuous leaders and competent and responsible tradesmen who take pride in themselves, their craft, and the strength and success of their community. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. And that hand needs to work WITH the teacher in helping to socialize and instruct the child, not indulge and ignore the child.
Yes. It kinda began after WWII, but really took off in the 1960's. It's a part of the slow decline of traditional Western values (and corresponding increase in drug use/abuse) in the West that began after WWII and has accelerated exponentially since. And Interestingly also coincides perfectly with the decline in regular church attendance in America that began around 1958. And yes, I was trained to be a history teacher, an impossible task in this past 30+ years of WOKE, sadly.@@jittmet7766
You've made some points about American schools. However, most would very reasonably argue that the turning point occured when they made teachers government workers and not subject to parental/community disapproval. Which led to another crucial point ->allowing government workers to unionize. Which led to another crucial point => admitting school administration to the teachers union. There was civil war in the schools between admin and teachers. Guess who won (admittedly so far)? Give u a hint-it wasn't the teacher. TIP: Always follow the money; parents stopped caring once they did. The school (teacher and admin) and unions broke trust with parents decades ago by saying that they could be better parents and also by involving government and law enforcement. There were exceptions, but-you know. Parents are forced out of most school actions and activities-outright not informed-, especially those in lower economic situations. Parents are threatened with jailtime and forced child removal if they do not cease teaching their child their values-you know, because the school knows better. Remember those school and class bulletins that used to be sent to homes on the regular; they have been gone for a long time. Attentive parents have to literally hunt for information about what is going on in their childrens school environments-on a weekly basis. It's like pulling teeth.
Yes, I would not disagree with your observation. There are indeed contributing sins in both camps, governmental and popular. And as in most any such feedback loop, it quickly becomes difficult to tell the chicken from the egg as to who is the most guilty. And so that fact quickly becomes practically irrelevant. For they both soon just feed off of each other's actions for excuses to continue their own agendas. But education, as a manipulative tool of a centralized, imperialistic government (for the task, originally, in our case, of pacification of dissidents like Anti-Federalists/ex-Confederates and Native Americans), was a major motivator behind the creation of the universal "free" public education, in the first place, after the end of the American Civil War. Public education in this country really was a result of post Civil War reconstruction policies in both North and South to foster a common set of political ideals and beliefs, coast to coast, as much as it was to meet the needs and desires of a newly industrialized society for literate laborers. Public schooling, as it has unfolded, IS a governing tool, and was essentially birthed as such in the 1870's. And I think it continues to be so now, more than ever. In fact, it seems, at least, nowadays teaching compliance to ever-shifting political agendas has, unabashedly, in some places, taken a priority over teaching life skills in not just the public schools, but, sadly, in the government funded universities as well. If this continues, it will be the undoing of both. For it's causing the American public, to the disbelief of my 56 year old, university educated mind (along with a collapsing standard of living), to finally lose faith in popular education as a positive personal and social good. That's unprecedented! And they are losing that faith at an amazingly fast pace. This is a fundamental shift in basic American values and it has occurred in just the past decade. It reminds me of how the French abandoned the Roman Catholic Church right before and during the French Revolution, because it had become the justifying tool of the oppressive government the People had then decided to remove. Ominous, perhaps. ??? Thank you for your prescient observations. @@shadyfox1758
Retired teacher, then administrator here. Loved teaching at Title 1 schools. Loved my students, my staff, the parents, EVERYTHING! Went into administration to try to turn Title 1 schools around (2), over a twelve year period. Saw what was happening and decided that it was a losing battle. Left for ten years and taught for The Peace Corps. Loved it. Then came home and decided to return to the classroom as a substitute. That went well until COVID happened. NOW, you could not pay me to teach in any classroom in the U.S. I STILL LOVE TEACHING, just don’t have the patience for crazy, entitled children and their parents. I’m teaching, virtually, for The Peace Corps , again, because I want to make a difference. I feel sorry for today’s students and their teachers. This country is in a free fall and all that has been said, is true. We have a problem, a BIG one.
Something we have to understand, is that with the rise of "good vibe parents"/absent parents and the rise of social medias that allow children to post content, we are allowing and encouraging children to raise children.
People are allowing their children to be brought up by strangers on the internet. It’s easier to throw an iPad or iPhone at the kid than it is to actually parent them. I’m not an ogre, I’ve never screamed at or hit my children, but they absolutely know what is expected of them. They are genuinely happier knowing the boundaries and we often get compliments from their teachers, friends and family (and even strangers sometimes) on their manners and behaviour.
I taught in Canada for decades now , but before that I taught a few years in Japan..the differences are astonishing. In Japan there was discipline and respect. Students wore uniforms, were given lots of homework and tests, were assessed and had great community and family support…the curriculum was set and uniform through the country… it was the antithesis of all that exists here..one wonders why we are so divergent..what could be learned by considering their practices… afterall the goal in both is to do the best job for our children..
I get you but would you rather a system that works for the 95-99% of kids giving them a reasonable education while sacrificing a 1-5% of kids who can't keep up. Or have a system where the classroom is a shit show everyday for the next 12 years. Society was designed to cater to the majority, once we cater to the minority we end up as you see here@Alice-Lantern
@Alice-Lanternthis is true. But some teachers just dream of "teaching" others since all they want is to get ppl sit and obey what they say. Thats the wrong dream if you ask me. Being a teacher is as hard and devoted as being a parent. This is why I think educational system as we know it is incorrect. Parents need to be with kids and teach them all the basics beyond 3yo, families need to construct a comunity and culture and then teens can chose to go to learn a profession. This was like this in past centuries, the educational system as we all know it started after industrial revolution , so its just indoctrination and its goal is to get both parents to work on the industry, destroying families and familiar small business.
I'm no teacher- but I run an upscale boutique that is (sadly) very near a high school and middle school. The students are allowed to come to our shopping center for lunch. They're loud, they're sloppy and leave trash, throw food and drinks at each other or just at the wall. They're clueless- they block doorways or just stand in the road blocking cars. If you ask them to move they fly off the handle. We've had them throw their lunch at our windows then call their parent to come buy then new lunch and the parents DID IT ( this happend twice. Parent came in and apologized while their kid was outside eating the 2nd lunch...) no disciple from ANYONE. One boy actually grabbed a womans rear end in the parking lot, his friends filmed and posted it- still no repercussions. It really is gross. I feel for teachers 😢
I teach at a private college. The students age range is around 17 - 27. I was taken aside by the owner of the school about 2 months ago and was told that the students feel disrespected and offended that they have to learn lessons about the topic of the day. I was then told to teach much less as they didn't want to do anything but the "fun stuff". (I work in a school for training for the entertainment/film/fashion industries). The students are given diplomas as they fight about their poor marks, and the curriculum is constantly being reduced and made more and more basic because it is too hard for them. They are now even coming into the school dictating terms and conditions for the school, the staff and the faculty on how they want things done and taught to suit them. It never ceases to take my breath away!
They are offended for learning...at school...?? FFS. I teach at a couple colleges, ages typically between 15-24 (some non-trads as well). I am constantly policing for plagiarism, cheating and AI use. Some students are getting "better" at it, and do unfortunately get away with it & graduate. It's beyond frustrating.
I'm loving these videos. I subscribed. My daughter is 6 y.o. and is very strong willed, not intimidated by adults or by anyone. Upon seeing this early on, I realized this can go left or right. I taught her to respect her teacher. I work with her teacher and her teacher loves her, tells me she's very diligent and sees her peers talking and she stays (on task). That's because I put the time in. Also, my daughter doesn't watch TV or music videos. We go out her dad takes her out and does valuable activities with her. And I monitor her on her iPad. A lot depends on what parents have in their home, and what they expose their kids to.
Wow. You really hit the nail on the head. I have been retired from teaching for many years now, but I have to say that my fellow teachers and I saw this coming 25 years ago. If children run the show at home, they will be uncontrollable at school. I'm seeing this with my own grandchildren which is heartbreaking for me.
Your not alone in this. A friend has regretfully confided in me that she and her husband dread having their grandchildren visit bc they are so out of control. She feels guilty but can't take the stress.
My mother in law lives with us, we run a very tight ship and our kids are homeschooled/ co-op taught in offline setting except to a technology literacy course they get in the co-op. She has literally cried about how she struggles to have meaningful relationships with her other grandchildren because they are so wild.
@bluemarble46 I don't know, my brother in law is deployed with the Army 6 months a year and his Ex wife has been married and divorced 3 times since that I know of. We still have the boys come stay with us a few times a year, but unfortunately my husband has to take time off work to be home because the older boy who is 12 will beat the stuffing out of my mother in law and I. I think it has a lot to do with technology addiction withdrawal and sugar withdrawal. My children are 9 they have zero internet access not even streaming. No tablets or anything. They have a switch and a Playlist of movies and TV shows we curated but they have to finish their daily responsibilities and have eaten 3 meals in peace before they get it. We pick up their ipads and phones when they arrive because I don't play those games. Some stuff can't be unseen. The boys are 3, 6 and 12 all 3 have a phone and iPad that's completely open like wild west open. Last time they were with us was because their step father had done something to the middle boy and the children couldn't be in the home with them and their mother wasn't going to make him leave so they were sent to us while the courts handled the case. Ipads made neglectful parenting socially acceptable. My ex sister in law was at one time my friend, its how she met my husband's brother. She is often uplifted for putting herself and her "mental health" first. Its weird times we live in. I love my nephews and want the best for them, but I regret introducing her into my family. My brother in law is in the Mediterranean right now. He will be deployed for a year. Think if the boys are here longer than a few week this time we can actually help them. As of now I'm homeschooling them with no co-op classes because I can't trust them not to hit. I can't do that to the other kids who go there. It's very stressful because the oldest boy is bigger and taller than me and has punched me to get his way before. Sadly, I don't know how to fix that other than make sure he never gets his way through violence. It's very late in the game to be introducing discipline and boundaries though. He's already watching p*rn and the crazy violent stuff too. We went through his phone when he got here because we took it and his history was crazy.... nauseating... frightening. I don't even know if trying a mental health care facility could help him anymore. 12 is still just a baby.
People think that there's always these different learning styles and approaches to teaching but no matter what approach you take kids are going to have to be able to sit down and shut up
Thank you for the video! I’m a substitute teacher / aspiring teaching. I told my husband that the difference now compared to before, is that we’re currently teaching Millennial’s kids. The baby boomers are more strict, conservative and traditional therefore their kids were not as bratty! Millennial parents are not as disciplined, and now that we’re in the Internet age, parents are no longer parenting (because they’re burnt out or on social media) and allow their kids to do what they want (going on devices all day). So guess what.. the kids don’t want to be in school so they’ll give teachers a hard time.
School libraries in my district stopped charging book fines years ago. It was one of the reasons that contributed to me quitting my job in 2022. It's a lot of work cataloging, repairing, and curating a balanced library when you have to buy the same books over and over and deal with the frustrations that other kids have when these books never come back for them to check out. The district librarian told us we could no longer require fines to be paid. The same was true for $500 iPads and replacement charging cords. When you're the one responsible for repairing and keeping an inventory of these for 600+ students it gets tiring. When do you have time to do your actual job?
I began subbing in 2020. Our school district needed subs during the pandemic, and my normal job had Fridays off. I decided to work at my son's junior high. What an eye-opening experience! If every parent could see what is happening daily, they would be astonished. It is exactly like you mentioned, and I see it only getting worse. I live in an affluent neighborhood where many parents don't believe their children are capable of these behaviors. Thank you for sharing your experiences....I share your videos with other parents because you articulate it so much better than I do.
I saw a person with a shirt that said” Success for All” it sounds so good! Fair, Inclusive, but that’s the problem, You need to earn success, not just handed to you, and it’s from experiencing much struggle and failure.
Like when all information we needed for a “term paper” had to be sought out at the school library, written in rough form in pencil, then done neatly in pen before handing in. Took notes in class, actually STUDIED from books, again, looking up information FROM BOOKS, spending hours writing papers, etc. Hated it at the time, but now, in my late 70’s and seeing what is going on today, I’d do it all again! 😊
I got what I believe is legit PTSD from my two years teaching high school in Memphis. It was terrifying and immensely depressing. Now I'm a fake teacher (a sub) in the upper Midwest. I'm never going back to real teaching. At least nobody blames a sub for the children's evil conduct.
If you aren’t telling the truth about this! I’ve always said our kids are bad because school leaders are enabling the parents to be bad. Teachers’ hands are tied behind their backs and the kids run the schools. My wife works at a so-called “Christian” daycare and she can tell you some stories.
No surprise, two years ago, I was talking to an elementary school teacher at lunch. She said it was impossible to teach children because she is so busy dealing with child behavior, she can’t teach. Anyway this is a horrible trend that needs to change - but you do have to have the help of parents. And what makes me sad is I’ve seen it in my wife’s side of the family. The grandchildren of her son are horrid. Now her son tries to keep a lid on things but his ex wife - who is a very nice person and will help out BUT she lets her children do whatever they want. She treats them like adult friends not her children. They’re ( grandchildren) get tons of toys. They get more toys in a week than I got all year long as a child.
"She said it was impossible to teach children because she is so busy dealing with child behavior, she can’t teach.": I feel the same way. Parents expect teachers to raise their kids, but then complain that there is rarely any actual teaching happening.
@@07Flash11MRC same here, I teach elementary specials all grades. The kids attitudes are so awful. They talk back to you, are lazy, and complain about everything. There are only about 30% of the kids in each of my classes that are polite and well behaved. I feel so sorry for them that their education is getting ruined by these other disrespectful, out of control kids.
These trends started in the 1990's. The comment about a bad job consisting of a combination of high responsibility and low power really resonated with me. I experienced too many times being told to make the kids follow the rules, but if a kid chose to challenge my "authority", and if I did or said anything the kid didn't like, I was cast as the abusive monster, and the kid was treated like a victim whose self-esteem was under attack.
Yes! Well said! Thanks for speaking the truth. I left teaching at the end of the school year 2023. I have a commercial driver license and I completely changed my career to driving large vehicles. I never thought I would leave teaching but I am SO much healthier and happy. Your videos are helping me heal.
The image that speaks/ image of the beast, which is the tel-a-vision/ big screen hollywood/mtv- music industry, has seemingly and effectively reached its intended purpose of poisoning the people's hearts and minds. It is the image of the beast, image that speaks, foretold in the Bible (Revelation). It sets itself up against all that is called God, blasphemes His name, promotes and teaches Sin, makes Sin look cool and funny. Things are so deteriorated now that there is no hope, absolutely none, outside the intervention of God The Father and Jesus Christ. It's going to get worse and will only stop once Jesus returns and the 1000 millennium starts. The only thing anyone can do at this point is pray and start reaching out, especially to the youth, with the word of God. Know your Creator, there is a standard of behavior towards others- love your neighbor as yourself LITERALLY PRACTICE IT. We are held accountable by God for our behavior. Judgement is already happening because the adults have not been feeding the children the word of God, now they are lawless in their behavior. Adults have in ignorance let the celebrities set the moral standard for children and now look what society is reaping - SIN, SIN AND MORE SIN- VIOLENT AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, NO RESPECT, LACK OF EMPATHY, ETC....
Exactly. As if the front office phone no longer exists. In the event of an emergency, what can a cellphone do anyway? The kid can call their parents but in the event of a lockdown, the parents can't enter the school to get their child. Procedures are done to keep the kids safe and because of active shooter drills, the kids are probably a little more safe than they would in the past because of some random shooter doing something nobody expects. Every adult in the building has to wear an ID badge and needs them to access any point in the building. Doors aren't allowed to stay open and they must be locked at all times. Things do happen but a cellphone is not going to get the child to a safe space AFTER an incident has begun. It would only serve to get the parent more agitated. Since the classroom is supposed to be dark and quiet to avoid attention, the child wouldn't be on the cell phone anyway.
I needed that cuz I had selective mutism as a child (social anxiety disorder) and couldn't.speak up for myself, so my mom told me to bring it since I always got lost on the first day of school tryna ride the school bus
TikTok challenge in destroying bathrooms resulted in almost every boys bathroom being locked. Student boys that needed to use the bathroom had to walk all the way to the other side of the school to find one that wasn’t locked. So rather than giving guilty students consequences everyone suffering was the solution in hopes that peer pressure from fellow classmates would help.
The exact same thing happened in the school I taught. I had a bad feeling that destroying bathrooms had something to do with students challenging each other, but I had no idea it was a global phenomenon thanks to social media.
@@07Flash11MRC I'm a music teacher and they destroy instruments also. I've had to take several of my instruments away from the students for the entire year because they think it's funny to destroy school property
@@kris78787 Gosh, that really sucks. I'm so sorry. I was an English as a third language teacher, so this behavior didn't necesarily have an impact on me personally.
My niece started highschool and through Tictok got into fights (later got shot shes alive but long story). But what started in her case was over permissive parents because of medical issues when she was a baby and both of them having to work. A bigger issue is that schools are essentially treated as free child care and it really shouldn't be. I understand why especially in this economy everyone has to work especially single parents. I genuinely think that the push for more women to work was to increase taxes while lowering wages. Also schools are also a school to college debt pipeline creating parents over busy with trying to pay it and neglect their kids 😢.
Forcing all women to enter the workforce is a huge part of this generational problem. Woke people and feminists can argue all they want, but it’s clearly just a fact that children need a parent in the home running the house. Most families would clearly be better off for it. When both parents work, nobody has the time or energy to parent
@@tsrocks2029 but we need money for pensions ….long term life insurance ….medicare is done Student loans could be paid off in 1-5 years if you do work smart. !!! Women do have to enter workforce because ADULTS need to cover themselves …we don’t have safety nets in this country before or after feminism Before feminism : Women couldn’t own property Have bank accounts Access credit etc etc Male relatives made all the decisions…. Women rights is like 80 years old If you are mad be mad a bank and zombie corporations that don’t pay taxes and stay getting bailed out
@@tsrocks2029 Then maybe Republicans need to stop killing all childcare reform so it gets cheaper. The reason both parents have to work is because shit is so ridiculously expensive. This isn't the 50s anymore where a basic entry level job could pay for an actual house and not an apartment. 1 income could afford multiple children etc. You want to blame something, blame the republican party submitting to their massive lobbying "donations"
I work in a middle school and I see all these awful behaviors that you're describing. I have talked to the teacher I work under and I said that if there is no discipline or repercussions for their behavior, then the parents should have to pay for their child to go to an alternative school where they get the help they need to turn their behavior around and also therapy for the family so they can know how to raise their children. They need to teach their children right from wrong and they have to work hard to get the grades to pass. Unfortunately in our middle school and apparently a lot of schools, we just keep pushing them on even though they do NO WORK! I also feel that if they can't pass the grade that they're in, they have to do summer school, paid by the parents, or repeat the grade. I feel like if the behavior is bad enough and they're in middle school and high school, then their parents should pay for boot camp for their child and the parents have to go to parenting classes so they know how to raise their child. I know I'm going to get flack for this but honestly I'm so tired of the behaviors and no consequences for the kids. I'm honestly looking for another job because I'm so tired of the behaviors with absolutely no consequences. We need to change this around now before we have a generation of entitled adults that will do absolutely no work and expect anything and everything!! Also we need God and Jesus in our hearts, minds, words, and actions. I really think a lot of these kids aren't raised with a good foundation of morals. They're all about what they can get for themselves.
Thank you my dear, retired teacher here. So refreshing to see a young intelligent teacher expressing what so many of us old fogies felt and were not able to say it.
Finally someone saying the truth. Parents are the reason. When I was in school in the 1970s. And not having discipline in school has added to the monsters being created. Things are out of control and the parents too. And I grew up in the drug abusing and free love era. But I knew if I did anything like that and my parents found out I wouldn’t be able to sit comfortably for a while ! When my children entered school I let them know ad long as they did their best that would be acceptable. Anything below a C would give rise for concern but we would deal with it if became an issue. The only thing that would get them in trouble would be being disrespectful to the teachers and staff. My son in 5th grade did not listen when they were talking in the hall. He and the kids with him all got after school detention. I called to find out what happened and the principal explained and I told him that my son would be there. The principal told me that they other kids parents already had called and yelled at them and they wouldn’t be there for detention. That’s sad. The offensive wasn’t a serious concern but my son needed to learn actions have consequences. And more importantly if they were asked to do anything as long as it doesn’t go against Gods law they were to do it. PS. Both of my children excelled in school. And they excelled in college too. And now they are married, son for 13 years and my daughter 17 years with 3 sweet grandchildren and raise them the way I did as they had a happy childhood and want the same for their children.
My wife is a teacher., can’t tell you the amount of days she’s came home crying from behavior issues. She’s sent bad kids to the principal only for them to come back 5 minutes later with a lollipop, essentially rewarding terrible behavior. “Kids run the schools, not admin or teachers” -her words
A lot of kids nowadays never make it into adulthood. Many still live at home well into their 30s and beyond. Young people have crippling social anxiety as a result of being raised by the Internet and never having to engage with other people in the real world. They fear and mistrust everybody. "All men are rapists," they say. "Everyone who doesn't agree with me is a fascist" or "literally Hitler," and so forth. The whole "iPad baby" thing came about because there was a drive to teach kids computer literacy in the 1980s so that nations could gain a competitive advantage economically. That somehow morphed into "you have to give your baby an iPad so they'll have a head start." Such nonsense. A senior citizen can learn to operate an iPad in 5 minutes. Knowing how to use a mobile device isn't "computer literacy" anyway. They don't teach a kid how computers work. They don't teach a kid how to program. In the 1990s, everybody had their own website. That was one of the first things we did when we got online. Nowadays, everybody is a social media addict. They complain about the abuses of big tech companies, yet they won't lift a finger to do something about it. It's always "someone (other than myself) should make an alternate platform." They're afraid to learn HTML despite it being one of the easiest skills to master. The Web was designed for ordinary people, not professional developers. For the younger generations, it's all about becoming famous and making big bucks as an "influencer" on a platform they didn't create themselves. They're intellectually lazy and incurious. They evaluate things based on emotion rather than reason. They'll always be slaves to the corporations they despise because they won't make even a token effort to free themselves.
On the 90's cartoons thing, they threw in a lot of innuendos, the difference was as a kid you wouldn't get the references, but as an adult, they're all over the place. Rugrats was a big one, Dr. lipschitz (lip shits), one episode had grandpa referencing an adult movie, etc. Music wasn't any better either, rock bands in the 80/90's were talking about sex all the time. All that stuff was still in media, the only difference now though is they're less subtle with it.
People who only watched these shows and listened to this music as little kids wont realize any of this. It proves the fact that this media, as you said, was more subtle. Kids getting unsupervised access to the entire internet is exposing them to the worst stuff.
Things were a lot more censored back when I was growing up. The f word was actually bleeped out of songs and movies etc. Now hardly anything is censored, and children have 24/7 access to it all via smartphones and social media.
@@kris78787 go back and watch beetleguese, Keaton drops 2 f-bombs. One is there if you listen close enough (the end of the scene with a brothel) and the other is super blatant. It's a PG movie and went on to have a cartoon series. Ghostbusters makes a penis joke, it got a full toy line and cartoon series. The mask. The first ninja turtles movie has raph saying damn it, twice. These examples were not subtle and all of those were rated PG, and were the reason we made the PG-13 rating. The cartoon specifically were under heavily scrutiny because they started as being made for kids. But a lot of the nicktoons threw in some out-of-pocket content and jokes. Especially in the early 90's.
@@ncolvin05 I never said EVERYTHING was censored back then, I said a lot more was censored than it is today. I remember watching certain movies or listening to certain songs on the radio as a child where the cuss words were bleeped out. Today, hardly anything is ever bleeped out. It has definitely gotten much more worse than when I was growing up.
If the government didn't decide that we nor the school can spank a child's behind is were we got lost. I'm gen X and we would never act like this because we knew what was coming. It's time these kids learned what mess around and find out means.
Ha! I am a recently retired (prepandemic 2020) UNI prof -- that's right, UNIVERSITY -- that noticed the same f-ing problems in my classrooms that av 80 students. I had to ban all electronics (cells, laptops, tablets), and enforce the ban by ejecting students from my classroom for violations. I got only tepid support from admin, who increasingly shifted over time to support of student&helicopter parent complaints. And, students that felt that they should get a passing grade in spite of medocre to terrible coursework because "But I came to every class!" We are doomed! btw, I loved TheSimpsons growing up!!!
Yep! Adjunct professor for 12 years….constantly on their cell phones… My final semester was a male student (in his 30’s) who didn’t like it when I told him an answer was wrong and got up and started throwing chairs..flunked 2 tests and didn’t turn in last 3 assignments and was constantly pressured by Administration to pass him. I’m refused. They didn’t renew my contract.
Sorry that happened to you, @@sunnydae6602. I hope something good will happen for you in 2024! Academia isn't what it was like when I was in grad school in the '90s... Now students are seen as "the customer" of the biz of teaching, and we're expected to please them. I was fortunate to be able to retire and get my minimal pension, which takes care of the basics. Much better than dealing with bratty students and appeasing/incompetent admin.
And they make horrible employees down the road. A boss tells him no phones or music and they will make excuses, throw fits, and even ask for a work time where a more lenient supervisor is working.
This is exactly why I've become the strict sit down, be quiet, no fun, no nonsense, consequences for every little thing that annoys me teacher. I'm absolutely done with their nonsense. Since I've been this way, life is pretty good at school right now.
At 15:40 she makes a point I stress very strongly in my own teaching when I discuss the principle of "subsidiarity." I point out that it's unjust, and an offense against human dignity, to assign responsibility without also granting the corresponding and proportionate responsibility over the same arena of action. And she's exactly right that that's exactly what tends to happen in the teaching profession today. Teachers have very little authority and a huge amount of responsibility. My experience teaching at the college level is quite different (still . . . for now?) but at the secondary level I would say that teachers should be regarded as being on the bottom side of a tremendous power imbalance. The students have more power than the teacher does, and there's a whole room full of them. In any other setting, the treatment to which teachers are often subject at the hands of their students would be classified as harassment, and we would take legal action to stop it. But teachers have only one recourse: to find a different job.
Principals won’t even kick these kids out of school. My principal excuse was THEY COME FROM A DIFFERENT BACKGROUND SO WE CANT JUDGE They have no solutions and expect teachers to raise these kids 😮 First graders used to be sweet 😮😮
You are so right! I can't give grades lower than 55% even when the students do nothing. They are addicted to their phones. So many read well below grade level. The behaviors are like the big elephant in the room. They love to do PL on the latest strategies to use in the class. But, it is so hard to use them because of the extreme classroom behaviors. They can't even be quiet to watch a short video.
Parents. The problem is the culture of people who are doing the parenting. “My truth” vs the truth. Being PC. Lowering standards and expectations in education. Lack of moral values. It’s disgusting.
"This system is unsustainable." Yes. That's what we teachers said daily, during my one-and-done year of teaching (2020-21!) And now we're seeing the fallout from it as these kids enter the workforce. A friend of mine manages a nice business. She told me the Gen Zers she hires are unable to focus, can't put down their phones, expect to be paid high salaries without having to earn them, and have an overwhelming sense of entitlement. What, exactly, are the companies of today and tomorrow going to do?
I was a child in the 1950s and early 1960s. I just realize why people think of those days as ideal. Because our parents disciplined us. We were raised knowing our actions had consequences even in schools. Yes, bring back the board of education to put against the seat of learning when needed.
I would add addiction to tech/ “gamification” of curricula as one of the items on your list. Having everything on chromebooks has been a nightmare and every year we see it in the scores.
This is why we have chosen to homeschool our 4 children currently pregnant with #5, and my boys had a very hard time with their peers. They are 10 (twins) and 8 years old. We have about 18 kids in our neighborhood and they built friendships with some but as soon as the parents started letting them play Fornite or other violent video games non stop those kids drastically changed got very mean and now my kids don't have hardly any friends. I'm incredibly grateful for places like our church to fellowship and get to know others who are on the same plaintiff as us. When we went to our homeschool group with over 100 other families, there was not one phone in sight! It was so refreshing to watch other children playing outside and adults actually talking face to face. Homeschool families truly value childhood innocence, something this generation doesn't care about anymore. Let the children be children, get them off the brainwashing internet, and get them outside playing - hell, go kick a ball with your son or daughter its the most universal toy!! I'll be 30 as well this July, and it's a shame how people nowadays do not value marriage or a strong family unit. It all begins in the HOME!
Worst part is, when these kids turn 25 years old and become adults. Everything that they lack they will blame on culture or the teachers. If they’re dumb because they can’t stop thinking about memes and dreams then they’re dumb enough to blame the teachers. I’m so sorry to all the teachers out there just trying to go to work.
So as a library worker I can answer to what my library has seen since going fine free. Honestly it just results in less theft and higher circulation. People were generally wary to use the library because on the occasion they forgot to return library items they accrued a fine. We also get the late items back more often. People tended to keep the items espesially the longer overdue they were. Its not like we dont fine ever. Failure to return the item, after a month (at my library) of overdue status, results in us billing the patron for the item and the suspension of their account until it is either paid for or returned.
I used to run a project called innocence not for sale around the 2010 times, and i saw the sexualization, and disrespectful behaviour prior to that, especially coming from music videos, and the subliminal and often blatant messages in kids films, I was thinking of starting the project up again but need support from communities which we didn't get back then.
I left after 23 years for this very reason. I was a prison guard without being armed. I didn’t go to school for that mess. Leaving was the best decision of my life.
Yup, you hit the nail on the head. Loss of consequences = the downfall of society. This is what unfettered liberalism gives us. And it's happened more than once throughout history.
It’s happening all across society and as she says in the video, unfettered access to tech and social media is a big problem. We also have more parents stretched thin and working harder to make ends meet because wages have not kept up, abysmal governmental support around daycare and paternity/maternity leave. There’s a wealth gap that keeps growing bigger by the decade and the conservatives just want to cut taxes more for the rich. Congress just passed a budget that CUT ten billion in IRS enforcement. So, more wealthy tax evaders, more disparity. If you want to live in a better behaved society there has to be more fundamental fairness. So parents can actually be more available to parent.
Parenting has definitely changed. Schools no longer have a consistent discipline framework. They both work together. If parents are letting students do whatever at home…what do you think those same students will do at school?!
Yes I think a lot of these problems can be blamed on overly sensitive parents who clearly do not understand the importance or value of education. Or basic respect for others who also care about their children. This makes me worry about the future of our country. I’m not joking
@@EJ1443i mean, yes and no. The reality is that unless you put your kids on extreme lockdown they are more exposed and influenced by externalities than parents. And the reality is that most parents don't have the time these days
Do not become a teacher! It’s a horrible environment, there is no teaching involved, kids do not care about learning, neither do the parents. I am going to find a job that pays more and benefits me for a change.
*what I mean is parents who overreact when teachers or coaches etc politely tell them their children are rude and don’t respect them. And also parents who are cool with book bans, anti comprehensive sex Ed. Flip out over their children learning about WW2 and the genocides that happened during that war. (Yes there’s more than the holocaust unfortunately) . Those parents don’t actually care about education or respecting their children intelligence and resilience by sheltering them from “scary/harmful” topics that people should know by adulthood!
Have you been out in public with parents today? It's all about telling their kids 16 times to stop, chasing them, laughing about bad behavior and then just giving in. They missed the formative years of these children- learning how to sit, listen etc, in a basic human setting.
And heaven forbid you attempt calling someone out on their parenting. “You sayin I’m a bad parent?!” YES! They’re a menace that can’t behave and they get it from you!
From the time I began teaching until the time I retired, the students had completely changed. No consequences for bad behavior had the inmates running the asylum.
Yes I agree and I am a young millenial ( mid-90’s baby) and I feel the effects of teaching generation z and/or older generation alpha. I have had a lot of challenges and will be at a new school for the new year. I also am from an urban environment and was the product of the environment that I teach in. I definitely feel being laughed at and disrespected constantly and I also noticed growing up that my peers were disrespectful. I definitely feel that things have gotten worse due to the different expectations such as the no zero policy and no detentions.
I'm early (older) genX at 53. My son was born 2001, so he's 22 now. I will stand firm that social media and the high amount of any screen time (TV included). I allowed him to play with an iPod when he was about 8 and I was grocery shopping, I will add his ADHD and autism have made parenting a challenge... esp when I was diagnosed myself at 49 (2019) so a lot of what he did I had no clue what to do with it, as I was in the same boat, that being said, he took to that dopamine rush from video games and things like farmville back in the early 2000s, Once youtube came along he spent more time watching others play that he did. I got him into skylanders because several of his buddies played and the moms said it was a good game to play. I ended up playing with him a lot too lol Hey I grew up on pacman and donkey and all those in the arcades lol But I saw that he was more wound up after being on too much screen time. I got him into summer camp for autism, yeah, that one kid- you know with the really rich parents that donate a lot so that the camp will take the little beast and keep their mouths shut, so mummy and daddy can have a summer of peace and quiet... they had one of those. I gave up on that and it was just my son and I most of the time being outdoors and spending time "homeschooling". I've spoken with other moms and they agree (as do their kids who can now articulate it) that home is home. School, church, anything that is outside of the house does not come in and home stuff isn't done at school- homework for example is not done at home. And that PTSD, I have it so bad from dealing with the school administration. Once my son went to school in another state (he fostered out for 18 months with other family) we realized that having him in special ed was so boring, and while the staff was great with kids that were very slow learners, they had no idea how to handle a really smart kid that just learned differently. They refused to work with me and the IEP. I'm so glad school is done! My son wants to take some online classes "just to learn new stuff". And I think he's ready. The teachers were so overwhelmed ( this is NY State) by the insanity of what the state was asking of them, they had every reason to just not be able to give my son "special needs care" when it came to how he learned. The district here in western NY is massive with 5 high schools and I forget the amount of elementary and middle schools (they blend the HS and MS in many cases)and in all that there is only ONE person fully trained in how to help autistic kids learn and help the staff and families to work together. Talk about overwhelming?!?! That woman was a saint and they gave her so little help. In the 70s and 80s if you were to act like kids did now, the teachers would, and did, give you a pounding! Moreso in the 70s. I lived in the inner city for a while, but spent most of the time in very very very very very rural (only 1,002 for the population!), then in suburbia for four years. I did it all. back in the 70s we were just told to toughen up. but it wasn't guns and knives and gangs of kids in an all out brawl. it was the typical bully leader and a few toadies that would single out the "weird kids" and torment them.
I'm genX too and while the kids are different I can say the schools and teachers are too. To think the kids have changed without acknowledging the teaching has too is misleading. I also very much blame social media. I don't fully know the solution but I can hardly wait until my kids are out of the system too.
@@pbandjedi5006 Common core is nuts! My son was peeved that it made no sense. I showed him "old fashioned" math (I have dyscalculia so I can't do math to save my life) and he was like, THAT makes sense. I told him to do the school math at school but everywhere else, do the old math. Even then, I was taught the beginnings of common core! My Grandfather thought it was bonkers as he TRIED to show me how to do math. My son spent all his time learning how to take take tests and do homework. He never really learned much of anything. I did a lot of that as "fun time" so he'd not think it was school at home. He loves encyclopedias online and wikihow, we both watch a ton of science and history from youtube (so much good stuff) I talk politics to him in what I think is neutral. I have strong views but I want him to come to his own conclusions. I ask questions and let him think about it. We've done well, but if I could've homeschooled I most certainly would've!
I just retired and I was lucky with the kids I got during my career and never had go to school on fear,but the same hasn’t been true for close friends. I’m volunteering this year and a close friend who is an excellent kinder teacher has one of these violent kids this year. Her arms are a colorful blend of bruises, scabbed over scratches,and bite marks. She’s not the only one.Her support has been meetings where she’s told to make clear plans on how she deals with it and follow through. That’s it. Parents who know her and requested her are begging to have their kids removed from the class.There are no real consequences in school it’s all about just putting up with it and changing the classroom to appease him. He’s little. What happens as he grows.
To explain Plato, every civilization will have ups and downs. He was experiencing a peak of his time, and so are we. But like all things human we escalate things with technology. Wars went from swords to nuclear power fast. And with social media bullying and other malicious behavior has been amplified exponentially, as literally everyone in the world can join.
When I teach, I try to introduce my students to things like Sister RosettaTharpe, Motown, Carole King, the Counting Crows etc. Students are actually craving good direction. On the last day of school last semester when almost no kids show, a student who lives in a family of 11 came into my classroom and said he wanted to see a "sad movie." So I showed him Hachi a Dog's Tale with Richard Gere and Joan Allen. He watched all the way through. Kids also like it when I use the Twlight Zone to teach English Language Arts. These are things teachers can do in small measure to counteract the lack of values today. I am out of classroom now except for summer school and credit recovery but I never use screens.
@@janesmith8050 Right but I generally have them do assignments on paper, or use discussions or simulations that are not computer based. I'm surprised you can't make that distinction.
I'd never step foot in a classroom again. I used to teach in inner-city Los Angeles, and I loved it. And I tried suburban and private schools. They're worse! Much worse! Now...no chance...not ever!
I have 20 and 19 year old. I have always gotten compliments about how respectful and discipline my children are. I raised them like i was raised Caribbean style.
Not a teacher, but a parent, my middle son is about to start his senior year and has frequently come home and told me how disgusted he is with many other students behavior and how annoying it is that they are so disruptive. I worry so much for our future for the reasons of lack of education, how are at going to have enough doctors, skilled trades, lawyers, etc. not to mention the other societal issues that come from having so many people that are not disciplined and respectful. I’m so glad I’m raising my kids better, while at the same time, fearing for their future and the society they need to deal with. We can see it already and it’s a scary thing. My youngest child is only 6, I know you said this stuff goes on in all schools, but I put him in a charter school and I have some hopes, no red flags yet and parents have been invited to attend special days at the school and we are allowed to come into the school, it’s very transparent, and so far, so good. The students all seem very respectful and well behaved any time I’ve seen them. If this goes south though, I’m prepared to homeschool.
The system is sooo frustrating. I quit teaching in 2016. But, sometimes, I fantasize about applying for a teaching position. I imagine all the wonderful **wrong** answers I could give to the interview questions. You know, like how would you handle a student who is repeatedly disruptive? And I fantasize how I would reach into my backpack and pull out a nasty looking paddle and say, "I'd give them a good spanking to begin with." I would just love to watch their expressions. Obviously, I wouldn't get such a job. But just the pleasure to see their expressions of horror. Something I don't fantasize about but sincerely wish I had done is to stand up to the administration with all the absurd rules. I tried my best to stand up, but I was also afraid of losing my job and not knowing what I would do next. In my last year, I should have recognized that I would be leaving. I didn't. Had I known I would be leaving, I might have spoken my mind more freely with the admin, I might have said, "OK. That's how you feel, but that's not how I'm going to run my classroom." Yet, even as I write these words, I know nothing would have made a difference. It's all so unfortunate. Teaching was my passion. Occasionally I think, perhaps I should give it a try again. But, I know the hell I had to go through last time. I don't have the energy or the patience for that anymore. It seems nearly everyone (except the teachers) fails to understand what education is about: learning. If you don't put in the hard work, you don't learn. Period. It doesn't matter whether you have the greatest teacher in the world or the worst. It doesn't matter whether your teacher is loving and doting or a strict disciplinarian. Learning is each individual's responsibility. It is an investment in the individual's future. And until parents, society, school district policy setters and admin, etc start reminding students, "yeah, this is hard work, but, if you don't do it now, it's going to be ten times worse later." In fact, it might be impossibly worse. I've got quite a few decades behind me. I've watched this colossal train-wreck get worse and and worse by the year. Yet, I still can't comprehend how as a society we've failed to inculcate responsibility and a basic understanding of consequences and repercussions failure to do what needs to be done. Returning to my fantasy I started this with. No, I would never spank a child. But, to even suggest that I would has a consequence: I would not get the job. At this point in my life, I can live with that consequence. But at 7 or 10 or 14 or 18, these children (and a lot of culpability falls on the parents) are setting themselves up for a lot of heartbreak and misery. This will not end well. There will always be students (and parents) who do the right thing. But the current approach is going to lead to a multi-tiered system of the truly educated and the deluded.
I would love to be a fly on the wall if you did go back for such a truthful interview 😂 The things you’ve written are common sense and necessary, yet they would be received as hostile. How sad that wisdom is trampled on, but chaos and foolishness are lauded.
In my country, there was a recent case in which a student (16-17 years old) provoked a professor (60 years old) who had a difficult period in his life (his wife and three brothers died in a short period of time). Another student was filming, the class was laughing. The student did not want to move away, the teacher tried to go outside, but was prevented from doing so. The shoving started and at one point the teacher hit the student. All in all, the teacher ended up in prison, allegedly will be fired, and no disciplinary measures were even mentioned against the students. Only because of public pressure, the teacher was released from prison before Christmas. Self-defense has become a greater crime than attack. With a system that supports bullies, even parents who want to raise their children well do not know what to do, because bullies stay in school, and abused children change schools.
I would just like to add that the school principal condemned the behavior of only the professor instead of offering psychological help to the colleague whose work she supervises. The Minister of Education stated in the media that the professor was drunk, while the police report does not state this. The system is played on the backs of teachers, parents and children. Just try raising your voice against the child and the school will send you a social worker if the child complains at school.
@@Ana-385holy crap??? I’m 17 and I could never imagine someone my age putting their hands on a teacher…im so thankful to be semi normal (besides my adhd/anxiety and stuff) and that I actually know how to handle my emotions. I go to a community college and my professors have gone through some hard things and I’ve just been respectful and not asked further questions because I don’t know and don’t want to get into their personal lives. 🤦♀️ not all gen z are rude, I have hope that most of us don’t act that way but I guess im wrong😢
@@Ariel-lol The saddest thing is that the system favors the bullies who stay in the classes and influence the rest of the kids who are afraid to behave differently for fear that the bullies will turn against them. Of course, not the whole generation is like that (most are ok), but urgent changes must be made. Unacceptable behavior MUST be unanimously condemned, primarily by the profession. And you, just stay like that - reasonable with empathy, a fond memory for teachers 🙂
The image that speaks/ image of the beast, which is the tel-a-vision/ big screen hollywood/mtv- music industry, has seemingly and effectively reached its intended purpose of poisoning the people's hearts and minds. It is the image of the beast, image that speaks, foretold in the Bible (Revelation). It sets itself up against all that is called God, blasphemes His name, promotes and teaches Sin, makes Sin look cool and funny. Things are so deteriorated now that there is no hope, absolutely none, outside the intervention of God The Father and Jesus Christ. It's going to get worse and will only stop once Jesus returns and the 1000 millennium starts. The only thing anyone can do at this point is pray and start reaching out, especially to the youth, with the word of God. Know your Creator, there is a standard of behavior towards others- love your neighbor as yourself LITERALLY PRACTICE IT. We are held accountable by God for our behavior. Judgement is already happening because the adults have not been feeding the children the word of God, now they are lawless in their behavior. Adults have in ignorance let the celebrities set the moral standard for children and now look what society is reaping - SIN, SIN AND MORE SIN- VIOLENT AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, NO RESPECT, LACK OF EMPATHY, ETC....
@@Ariel-lol Sorry, I forgot to comment on your "semi normal" opinion on yourself. You are normal because we all have our cracks and scars but that don't give us the right to hurt others because of them, nor to feel sorry for ourselves. Don't be too self-critical about these things, but stay self-critical enough to keep working on yourself. Good luck girl! 💪😉
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Preach! I also worked in a variety of school settings. I completed my student-teaching in a rural town, then spent the first 7 years of my career in a Title I school, and finally ended my career in a very affluent school district--one of the best rated schools in my state. I thought that getting hired in an affluent district would be the answer to my prayers. I thought I would *finally* be able to enjoy my teaching career now that I was in a good school. I didn't think behavior would be a problem. I thought the admin would support teachers. I thought parents would be involved by partnering with teachers. In other words, I thought it would be totally different from the Title I school. Oh, how wrong I was. I can say, with complete honesty, that the rural, Title I and affluent schools all have the exact same issues --just at different stages and were manifested in different ways. Across the board, there was student entitlement, parental bullying, feckless administrators that approached education as a customer service industry, and veteran teachers that told me to get out of this career before I got stuck! I can't tell you the number of veteran teachers, who were near the end of their careers, that told all of us young teachers to save ourselves before it was too late. They explained that they were too close to retirement to leave, but we were still young enough to jump ship. I, and thousands of other teachers across this nation, finally listened and put ourselves first. Hence, this mass teacher exodus that will only get worse in 2024. I'm grateful for every former teacher (like you) who is exposing just how bad things are. Everybody better listen up and take heed!
I also want to share that I (like many people who dreamed of being a teacher since we were little ) thought that my youth, energy and enthusiasm would be enough to help fix the system. I thought that if I just rolled up my sleeves and poured everything into my job, it would be enough to have a fulfilling career. I was so wrong. Each year that I stayed in Education, the hard truth kept slapping me in the face. I had to finally acknowledge the reality of the situation, which is...we have a PARENTING and CULTURE problem in this society. You are 1000% correct! And those who are offended by this should really look within themselves, because chances are they are part of the problem. I guess I'm a fellow "boomer millennial" because I'm also in my 30s and just astonished at how low our society has fallen. When I was a kid, I never dreamed of seeing such lawlessness and degradation of basic values. I'm not saying everyone should be a saint, but like the young teacher said in her TikTok, 5 year olds singing Pound Town in a ballet class is a reflection of how BROKEN this society is. My goodness! It took 10 years of being a teacher to finally realize that no matter what I or other well-intentioned teachers did, we could not continue to carry the ills of society on our shoulders. We are tasked with being parents, parole officers, counselors, truancy officers, counselors, and mentors. IT'S TOO MUCH.
Those of us that went into this profession with the best of intentions are finally leaving because we realize we're destroying our own lives and mental health...and for what? We certainly can't change what's happening to society as a whole. We clearly can't change the Education system because no one listens to us. Our expertise is completely disregarded. We are disrespected at every turn. Admin throws us under the bus because they want to placate parents and students (even in cases where the parents and students are clearly wrong). Parents demand grades that their kids haven't earned, which means these kids get pushed through the system even though they are functionally illiterate and innumerate. Students are completely entitled and are coddled to such an extent that I fear for the future of this country. Why would any teacher--especially if they are nowhere close to retirement--try to "hang on" when the system is clearly beyond repair at this point? Why would someone continue to give 110% every single day, only get 10% back (if that)? At some point, it's time to walk away.
If you are a fellow teacher that has left the profession, congratulations! I am so happy for you. Please know that we understand you did the best that you could. I know, first hand, what teaching took out of you. As such, you are not a failure for quitting. You put yourself and your family first, which is to be commended! The kids who appreciated you and your teaching style will never forget the positive impact you made on their lives. Please hold on to that. I'm still on a journey of healing after my decade in the classroom, but what often gives me peace is knowing that it wasn't all a waste -- that there are students who are grateful that I was part of their life's story. For those of you who are not teachers, please watch all of the TikToks and TH-cam videos of teachers explaining why they left. Not only should it scare the crap out of you, I hope it motivates you to take heed of all the warnings. Please share the videos to help wake people up to what's going on. Trish, keep making these videos!
This is beautifully expressed. You mirror exactly my experience. Best wishes to you in your future pursuits.
This is 1000% spot on.
Everything you said is ABSOLUTELY correct. In fact, I also taught at two different title one schools and later an affluent school. In my experience the parents from the affluent school were the worst because the had money and thought that meant they were important and "owned" you as a teacher.
I am in my second year of retirement and hung on those last five years. The result was high blood pressure. It was also affecting other areas for health. Since retirement my blood pressure is consistently lower. We have a crises indeed. There is also the added fact that a faction of leadership in this country don't believe in free public education and are working behind the scenes to end it.
That is HORRIBLE! I am appalled. We are in serious trouble as a society. 💛
Couldn’t have said it better myself ❤
My son started high school this year. At parent teacher night, I found out that his math teacher cries every day. She was holding back tears as she came & thanked me for raising a respectable student. I had no idea it was this bad. My son has baked brownies & muffins to bring her, just because. Math is his least liked subject, but wants to brighten her day.
You’re to be congratulated for raising a caring son.
Thanks for your kindness. When I was a teacher, I used to cry every day. Then I became numb and didn't feel anything anymore. That's when I knew it was time for a career change. I just couldn't believe how many people stood by and let me take the fall fall for everything. Honestly, it was so traumatic. You never really get over an experience like that. I'll never be the same as I was before all that...im sure she will remember you and your son for the rest of her life.
We need more parents like you thank you. I have students like your son and they are a great gift to us teachers.
I’ve had so many experiences where I have been blamed or thrown under the bus. My first year is a classic example. It didn’t matter if I was the teacher, Teacher Assistant, or substitute. It seems like there is a lot of cruel colleagues, parents, and administrators. To them, if you don’t go along with their program, then it must be your fault. Struggling with student discipline? It couldn’t POSSIBLY be anyone’s fault but yours. It didn’t matter if you had a group of parents already known for their constant complaints. It didn’t matter if your students were known for giving virtually every teacher a hard time and that the veteran teacher last year had problems with them as well. It didn’t matter that admin kept stuffing students in your class until they had the max amount allowed without giving you a full time aid (up to 24 students with a part time aid and 25 you must have a full time aid). Guess how many students I had by the end of the year? 24. It didn’t matter that you had the worst possible schedule (and a confusing one for the kids at that) that made it impossible to get things done. Oh. And you have to teach on a kinder level even though your kids are pre-k, but make it fun and include free centers and a nap. Try to find a way to meet with every kid every day in literacy centers. Did I mention they wanted the kids to be able to write sentences by the end of the year even though they were four and five years old!?? Oh. You have only one bathroom, but all of your kids will need to go at the exact same time. I received almost no support from admin. All the teachers felt like they were not allowed to send kids to the office. Admin didn’t like it when we had students sit out for recess or go to another classroom. They didn’t even like it when we changed their color. Even back then, this new generation had a hard time sitting for more than a few minutes at a time. Admin. sided with the parents almost every time. Despite all the odds, I still managed to get many of them where they needed to be. All this to say, I cried soooo many times that first year and I had to take the fall for things despite not everything being my fault.
How sweet is he 😊
Plato wasn't getting punched in the face by his students with parents supporting their children every step of the way.
Exactly my thoughts. What they called bad back then is nothing compared to what’s going on now.
Lol 😂
I haven’t found a verified academic source for that quote being of Plato in any case. The source is modern because it was said by a university president in 1967 (he claimed Plato said it). Plato wrote about youth but that exact quote , don’t know how he came up with it.
I think the president said it because the 60s had a lot of riots.
Another thing is that Plato wrote that well over 2,000 years ago. It’s interesting that people don’t think that things have decayed even more since then.
@@hirsch4155 That quote did seem anachronistic.
True story: I had an administrator tell me I had to start providing all supplies to my students such as pencils, notebook paper, erasers, etc etc or a parent was going to sue the school for not providing a "totally free and public education." I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Let me know what day and what courtroom." And I walked out.
The parent DID sue, and of course...lost. Judge ruled that free and public education did NOT mean "supplies." Smh!!!!
I'm shocked
Someone had the audacity to actually sue the School over pencils? And the Admin did not have the backbone to laugh the parents out of their Office?!
This is why I homeschool and opt out of paying taxes for education in my neighborhood. They don't even pay for basic necessities in the promised free education. It wasnt you as a teacher's responsibility. The super is in charge of allocating funding and they are failing big time. The superintendent of Clark county where I live gets a salary of 15 million a year and teachers are making minimum wage and having to buy supplies.
I agree that the school should be providing those supplies, but not that the school should make the teacher pay for it.
There is only one free source of education. The internet.
Narcissism and sociopathy are rising at an alarming rate , bad parenting is exactly why .
its capitalism
& too much screen time, too early!
@@Liza-gd7jf you think Marxism will fix it?
Social media is the worst.
@@Liza-gd7jf ok Socialist
No child left behind leaves everyone behind.
That’s what I used to say! I called it “Every Child Left Behind”. Thank goodness I’m retired! Not good circumstances though, the students who were impossible won!
We are in a "Race to the bottom"
Testing has absolutely ruined schools!!
If they brought back school spanking (one can dream) then the unruly children will be left with a sore behind
Every policy that George W Bush that I can think of was an abject failure and this was one of his biggest.
All true. I just left my school using an exclusively “positive” approach to school discipline. In the last year I needed x-rays twice, was hit, kicked, punched, bitten drawing blood, been stabbed with pencils….and on and on. Consequences? Zero.
The final straw was seeing a child punch a classmate in the head 3-4x per week and entirely excused as a “manifestation of disability”. Heartbreaking for the aggressor who is learning that hurting people is excusable, and for the victim who is being forced to share a classroom with someone who hurts her. I couldn’t watch it anymore. We need wholesale reform.
That’s criminal! I’m so sorry for you and the girl being assaulted.
A lot of this also comes from ese kids who should never have been mainstreamed into regular classrooms. Some ese kids can, but many do not belong in a classroom with other kids, because they are violent.
Yes, that's criminal!!
Im a teacher. Once I complained about student discipline to my family and my dad, a retired juvenille probation officer, said that he didn’t think it was a good idea when some of the kids were mainstreamed into the classroom. This is coming from a retired juvenille probation officer who has to walk the fine line between tough love and giving kids a second chance. He did see change in some of the kids, but I’m sure he saw repeat offenders, too.
This is HORRIFIC! I’m so sorry.
Kids have not always been this way. I spent 32 years in the classroom. I never dealt with this behavior. It was the administration that drove me out and the expectations and work that increased consistently every year.
You are right. I’ve been in teaching for 44 years and have loved it but I do wonder what will happen in the future.
Just cause they act differently doesn't mean they are different. Thinking children change in a short period of time is a complete delusion and being a teacher and know nothing about children show how fake the job is. Children have always been the same. U guys do nothing but repeat the book they are forced to learn even a caretaker might be better for children.
They're creating a school to prison pipeline. This will be the cheapest form of labor and legal slavery. This has been in the works for years and it's been designed. It's not just here this is a global problem. Discipline prepares children for life. I'm not talking about throwing them about. Lack of discipline sets them up for failure thus creating monsters. Hold them and their parents responsible because if they're not, an entire generation, will be doomed. They will become antisocial, violent, entitled, delusional, etc. These kids are being raised on social media by parents too busy, tired or lazy either way it's not good.
@@aaad3552 Do you have a brain in your head? Children have not always been the same. There was very little talking back when I was growing up and teachers were not quitting. I bet your a liberal that loves that idea of not holding kids or even criminals accountable for their actions.
I did my student teaching (4th grade) with a mentor who had been teaching 3rd-5th grade since 1996. She was one of those super decorated, passionate, teacher-of-the-year types who had such a wonderful reputation in the school/community. The 4th grade students we taught together were absolutely off the wall no matter what classroom management or de-escalation strategies we used. She said that in her 26 years of teaching, these were by far the worst behaved kids that nothing could have prepared her to properly handle, and it was making her lose her passion to teach. I thought that I was just being sensitive and inexperienced (as someone who hadn't even finished college yet), but it was very eye-opening to hear it from an experienced veteran like her.
I started teaching in 90's. I saw two trends that made me wonder who was at the helm. 1. Technical programs were shut down so kids couldn't graduate HS with a credential to get a job in auto repair, electrical work, etc. Instead, everybody 'had to go to college' regardless of ability or interest. HS teachers warned this would be a problem down the road with unemployable young adults. They were ignored. And here we are with the results.
2. Special ed students were being mainstreamed with no thought as to how their behaviors would affect the classroom. Three students who constantly disrupt a classroom bring learning to a halt for the other students; apparently that wasn't an important enough issue to warrant consideration.
Exactly, 💯💯💯
One we were scared of our mothers. What I loved about back then was the book a teacher gave you with the answer to your question. 😂 I learned how to program looking for one answer. 😊 As a mother it was non-stop arguing with the administration for a teacher. In my case I knew most kids families in my kids class. But then again they knew I didn't play. The good old days
Agreed, but as a SPED teacher, they push us to put students in LREs. I don't always agree with the CSE decisions, but we have to go with the IEP set forth. Imagine our 12:1:1 or 15:1 rooms. I had kids in my 12:1:1 that did not have a 1 to 1 TA, even though their IEP called for it. Imagine now, I had 5 students in my 12:1:1 with that on their IEPs and only 2 aids. Half my kids were not even toileting themselves. So usually that left only one aid in my room at any given time. I also had 3 runners, so the door had to be constantly watched. Try to teach in that environment. And that's without the daily meltdowns. Lack of staff was a huge problem.
I totally agree with you especially the special ed kids. I feel bad for the teachers having to put up with special kid meltdowns. I think they should have special schools for them because most of them if they aren't too well off in social situations they go into groups homes. I've run some homes and some don't do well
@@ayzc4164 I disagree, respectfully, but believe at times lack of staff with appropriate training and breaks/ compensation for non-teachers in those rooms need to be addressed. The TAs do a tremendous amount of work and are never rewarded accordingly. Schools have the capacity and ability but attitudes of people that think that students with disabilities should be hidden away in “Special Schools “ are wrong. I’ve had some of the most rewarding relationships with students in my SPED classroom that far rose above any in a reg ed class I’ve taught. And they have better senses of humor, for the most part.
My first day as a middle school teacher, 2 years ago, a kid threw a desk at me after first hour… in my school experience as a kid in the 90’s… I had never seen that. I’ve busted kids for vaping in class, having sex in the bathroom, for assaulting me (I’m 6’1” 240 lbs and he was 5’5” and obviously stupid), and a millions of different things. I get yelled at for any type of discipline I’ve tried to install. Oh as far as the neighborhood things go… I teach in a rural town. A colleague of mine was attacked by a first grader (punched in the throat) on a Friday and the sub who filled in on Monday for her and guess what kid was still in class? The parents of the kid claimed racism and the kid got no punishment. HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!
Homeschooling your kids only helps if you actually raise them. And if people did we wouldn't have this problem
"for assaulting me (I’m 6’1” 240 lbs and he was 5’5” and obviously stupid),"
yeah well..... next time the kid will "wise up" and bring a weapon, a knife or a gun, to school. school was bad when I was there decades ago - now it is basically prison rules in there.
We had kids that would do stuff like that in the 90s, but there were separate classes for behavioral education.
These horror stories from teachers make me think of the old movie, Dangerous Minds, except it's not just rebellious high schoolers in some neighborhoods, it's now everywhere, and in all age groups. I strongly agree with your suggestion to HOMESCHOOL. I can't imagine sending well-behaved, innocent children to school with wild children that don't just bully their peers, but that are now physically attacking teachers... We know what this kind of behavior leads to... Sadly some will have a future in the prison system. That's what parents are setting their children up for. A lifetime of thinking that they can get away with anything and there are no consequences. I blame the parents. It's their responsibility to raise their own children.
Proverbs 22:6 KJV - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
@@believestthouthis7 "Sadly some will have a future in the prison system. "
More happily, some will not survive long and have no future.
My daughter is 5 and just started school . Public school has ruined her , she’s brought home some awful behaviors . I am really thinking about homeschooling . These parents need to handle their kids !
Homeschool her
There is not a teacher shortage. There is a money and respect shortage.
There isn't a money shortage, but a money distribution problem. The average per K-12 student in the U.S. is $15,800 or $474,000 per 30 student classroom.
RE Money: Y wont you say it? Less admin = more funds available. Less curriculum changes = stable and refined learning (and, again, more funds). Limit digital interaction to specialty class/lab-only = stable and refined learning (and, again, more funds).
RE Respect: U get it when you give it. To parents. U r supposed to exude authority over children. They are not your friends.
There is a two working parent problem. Children being raised by daycare and not parents is the problem.
Very lack of parenting….. 💁🏽♀️
@@lucycat4305 Wow that sure touched a nerve with me. My ex left the first year both kids were in school, and I understand that statistically that's a real common time for divorce. Lemmie back up, we were able to arrange life/work so that my kids never attended daycare. I was a very committed parent.
But suddenly having to pay all the bills with half the money, and at the same time come up with the money for a lawyer and fairly frequent, child care because I couldn't tailor my hours to coordinate with a non existant partner, put a giant stress on every kind of resource. I was very lucky to be a college graduate with a decent job.
The problem isn't women having opportunities outside the home and the protection that provides if they suddenly become single, (is that what you were driving at?) The problem is men having the legal and social freedom to walk away and distance themselves from their children on the basis of their ex being "unpleasant" or "difficult". A a society we accept that lame excuse, we shouldn't.
The other problem is the lack of consequence. When I was in school you had consequences, I never heard of a school division being afraid of being sued or lowering expectations because parents were upset. If they didn't like it, they could send their kids to private school, which they couldn't afford, so they pressed their kids to stay out of trouble.
I absolutely agree. I teach elementary and so many of the kids in my classes are absolutely disrespectful and rude. You can be the nicest teacher in the world and have top tier classroom management and these kid's attitudes and behaviors are still deplorable. I'm saddened for the well behaved, good students in my classes whose education is getting ruined by these out of control, disrespectful kids. Awful student behaviors is the number one reason I want to find a different career, and this is my 3rd year teaching.
I’m in my second year teaching. I’m not a classroom teacher, but I’m sticking around long enough to have enough years of experience to keep my retirement when I become of that age. That’s two more years. And I am finished. Because I’m not getting any younger and I want children of my own, but I do not dare try to juggle 200+ other kids along with my own. My family doesn’t deserve that.
@@tacofacefart 1/2 of the teachers at my school left last year. Do you really think I'm the issue?
I have 24 years of ridiculous stories that I have tried to compile and if I look at them over time, I can (very clearly) see how severe the decline of respect is from ALL sides. The teacher is the epicenter of all criticism: Kids hate the teachers, parents back the kids and undermine the teachers, (*SOME*) admins are often spineless and throw teachers under the bus, society blames teachers for all problems (and accuse us of stealing tax revenue for glorified babysitting), and the school board are so catatonic that they cannot make any decisions so they make teachers the scapegoat of all problems.
This is excellent! Well said...
There's your EdD dissertation.
But how do you explain all these teachers molesting students? Teachers also hold some blame, surely?
@@adameanglinBut for what job when so few want to go into teaching!
Welp, soon they won’t Have Teachers.
Wait till the politicians get their hands on the adults these kids turn into.
I can already see it.
Convince them to close down schools to cut taxes , and a systematic scapegoating of public school teachers will occur.
It will be SO easy too.
Like all they have to do is point out how “little good” teachers did for them.
The thing about Gen Alpha is that they're savage but they are soooo sensitive. To be frank, my clapback and document game is strong. As a result, the students, parents, and admin already know what time it is with me. However, this profession is a toxic waste zone. These kids think they are equal to you because their parents precipitate this kind of unhealthy relationship with them. Admin are afraid of students and their parents and there is this undertone to cater to every single ridiculous, unrealistic and unnecessary complaint and/or adjustment. I'm not gonna be in it for much longer, it is a losing battle. However, i pray that everry teacher who leaves or stay find peace, joy and a place that allows them to do what they love with a substantial income. God bless ya'll and hold on; every storm must pass over.
have you noticed that the (mostly black but really all races) so called thugs are very .... feminine?
they do not look muscular, they do not look manly. they literally walk like girls (used to back in the day). and anything even slightly critical said to them results in a temper tantrum.
and they will shoot you for "disrespect".
Not only are they savage yet sensitive af,
BUT THEY CHAMPION SAVAGERY.
THAT IS FUCKING TERRIFYING.
THEY CHEER THAT ON
IF YOU ARE A SAVAGE,
THEN THEY CHAMPION YOU AS THEIR
“QUEEN” and they say “SLAY”
Like…just the language alone, and language is the foundation of a society, is concerning.
Stay prayed up.
Teacher from Germany here: it’s interesting to see that teachers in other countries struggle with discipline or the lack thereof in parenting as well.
Our classes are mixed with regular student and special ed students.
My personal experience is that parents do not parent anymore for whatever reasons. The kids lack a fundamental basis of empathy for others and they cannot put themselves in other people’s shoes. They are super sensitive but hurl out insults and/or hurt others physically casually (there is a game where kids actually insult each other for fun).
Kids need to learn that they are part of a society and therefore need to behave accordingly. But that is something that’s not happening anymore. It’s just me me me all the time.
This is true. So how do we begin to change it.
I´m also a teacher in Germany and I feel the same, really.
Only a few years back calling the parents about their child´s misbehaviour would have consequences. But now, when you say you´ll have to talk to their parents about their behaviour if they don´t stop doing xx, they´ll just shrug and say "go ahead then, they won´t do anything anyway" and they´re absolutely right. Consequences given by the school will even be challenged by the parents sometimes.
In student-teacher-conversations about insults, fights etc. I´ve also noticed that more and more students absolutely don´t care if they hurt anyone, be it physically or emotionally.
You act like this is a new thing. I grew up playing a game where shouted slurs and tackled each other I'm 37. Teachers standing there in full view and earshot.
Wow - not Germany, too!!!! Your tiered education system was the envy of the world. 😢
@@mtc-j9i really? I work in the lowest tier (Hauptschule) in a big city and I would say that tier mainly exists so the better-off can gatekeep their status quo.
We need to accept the reality that for a lot of parents, kids are something that happened to them and they’re just doing time with them. They had their kids without thought and without a partner or a plan. They just stick an iPad in front of him/her and feed it Mac and Cheese.
That's every generation of parents, though. For most parents, even back then, kids "just happened". The part I agree with is how parents approach parenthood: negligence to raising them. Yes, kids are difficult, they're probably accidents, and you may end up with more than one. However, parents owe a responsibility to them and to society. Parents nowadays expect the school system to raise their own kids, even feed them to an extent.
@@stevennguyen4993I disagree with the first part of your comment and wholeheartedly agree with the last part. I would like to add that the difference is the degree to which people take responsibility once they have kids. THAT is the big difference.
@@stevennguyen4993The problems got way worse after welfare reform. Prior to that you didn't see children coming into the world for the sole purpose of enabling mothers to collect benefits. In addition to that we really live in a society today that minimizes the importance of attentive parenting.
Sorry not so with majority of greatest generation or silent generation. This is a babyboomer n beyond issue. The younger the generation the worse it gets. Indoctrination via libtard schools @stevennguyen4993
@@stevennguyen4993not true with older generations. This is major problem with boomers and below
Former classroom teacher. I can teach your kids but you, the parent, have to raise them first. Kid needs accommodations? Great, let's do it! Kid doesn't want to even sit down and listen and throw the book at me, nope! And obviously, I am a working parent and I have never spanked my kid. My kid has manners and expectations. Imagine that!
Right. Abuse isn't required to discipline a kid. But disciplining a kid is 100% necessary.
They all seem to be ADHD🙄🙄🙄. Labels do not mean much nowadays because they are overused.
My child learned children's rights in the first grade, came home and started telling me what a can't do to her. Take away the cell phone (right to communicate), forbid socializing with children (right to socialize), yell at her.. Children are left in real abusive families, and parents from ordinary families have social services pulled over their necks if the children complain at school. Fortunately, my daughter (after I explained) understood that with rights come responsibilities, but the school somehow missed that point.. 🤔
@@Ana-385 ...Ehm y'all not giving your children "cell phones" .... They still exist and are cheap.... Your fault for getting them smart phones....
@@tulip811 Ehm, why not? That was the only form of communication until we got home from work because we don't have a regular phone in the house. Why do you immediately think that means spending a ton of time on it? In addition, I didn't even say that my problem with her was about the phone, but she recited all the rights when she came home from school, so there is no room for a "your fault" comment.
Everything about this is 100% spot on! I’m in my 4th year of teaching middle school and I’ve had it. I’m sick of the constant arguing and managing 13/14 year olds who still act like 3rd graders.
No Child Left Behind was the worst thing that ever could have been done to education-the kids have no motivation to try because they know they’ll get passed if they just sit and do nothing all year. They don’t care-so why should I?
Maybe because you're supposed to be the adult in the situation
@@mojeaux86You obviously don't understand.
America education committee: get rid of the no child left behind act! This is sad. The classroom environments are now circuses.
No Child Left Behind was overturned during the Obama administration. Common Core is now the guiding policy.
I know lots of folks HATE Common Core. I LOVE the concept of Common Core - but lots of text books are horrible.
But there's not been any NCLB for a long time.
It was a George W. Bush thing.
No respect,no discipline, no rules, no accountability ,no punishment, no responsibility.this generation is done for so sad. I pray for the teachers today.
You should be more concerned when these kids enter adulthood, the workforce, and vote. It's gonna make the late 80s early 90s crime wave look like Mr Roger's neighborhood
@@Patson20You don't have to look far, it's already happening as gen z comes of age.
The problem is that teachers are dilly-dallying instead of whizzing through the content while going into more detail. That will make it fun for the ones who are interested whilst overwhelming and shaming the ones who are not. On top of that it would be possible to use the responsibility of needing to learn everything you need to solve every problem the world has to create discipline. Imagine how different schools would look if the terror of every single one of the world's problems provided consequences in the form of nightmares. They would study obsessively if someone made sure they woke up to just 1% of the world's suffering.
@@Patson20that all starts in childhood.
I’ve been at custodian at multiple levels of public school, and I can tell you in the past 3 to 4 years. The kids have gotten noticeably worse. Few kids have any respect for the adults in the building or their peers. They intentionally throw food around in the cafeteria and make messes it’s gotten to the point where I pick up The food and throw it back at them and make them clean it. I don’t care if I get in trouble.
Good! That's exactly what you should do! If my kid threw food on the wall, I would have no problem with you doing this. My parents were janitors for several years and taught me how important it was to clean up after myself in facilities. It also helped growing up between Japan and the US. In Japan, the kids are responsible for cleaning their own school. You make a mess, you get to deal with your classmates who have to clean it up! You also learn to stay clean because the messier the school, the longer you have to stay after school
@@kittenmittens4387 we need some of that mentality in the United States for sure
YES! Kudos to you!
I was a school bus driver for 7 yrs. I quit in 2023 despite the driver shortage. Often it felt like I was driving a corrections bus to the state pen. There were good kids but many acted like inmates. There will always be shortages in school staff because parents and kids are often rotten to the core.
@@sayitaintso7544 excatly
When you have a class of 30+ students and 5 of them are constant behavior problems, unfortunately those 5 tend to take up all your time, attention, and energy. That leaves very little to give to the other 25 students who are better behaved and actually want to learn. I went home each day exhausted yet feeling like I’d let those 25 down. It has gotten much worse in the last 4-5 years. Over a 24 year career I went from loving the job to dreading it. I quit a year ago, and it’s the best decision I ever made.
This!! These dynamics of 30+ kids and 3+ behavior kids in one classroom with one teacher is not reflected in the intervention research. They create a self reinforcing subgroup within the classroom. It is so real. I was a behavior kid and I’m so glad I was the only behavior kid in my elementary classes😂
When there are only a handful of kids with behavior problems per grade level the school can separate them so that each class only has one - two at most. Nowadays there are just too many to do that. I taught middle schoolers. When you have a several they tend to egg each other on or even compete. Sometimes kids who used to be respectful start acting out as well to be seen as cool.
As a former teacher there are those kids that are so disruptive, you are glad when they are absent, take up all time, attention,
I truly believe the worst thing ever for all humans has been social media with access everywhere via smart devices. Things really changed when smartphones came out and not just for the youth, but also for the old. Yes, some good has come from social media such as connecting with people you might never have met or raising money for those in need via crowd funding, but the bad far outweighs the good. My husband and I are both teachers and so many kids are truly messed up (in a variety of ways) by their addiction to tech. My parents political views have been radicalized by what they watch online and they have no idea the bubble they are in and they get angry if I even mention a different viewpoints. I was in the last generation without internet in every home and without cell phones (just before flip phones) and I'mm so thankful for the great childhood and high school experience I had. I don't envy the children of today one bit.
👏👏👏 You are absolutely correct. You echoed what I posted a couple of days ago.
What you said, Juliet!!! Thank you for articulating the issue; I often say the internet is the best and worst thing that ever happened.
@@mssjbsf77yep it's a blessing and a curse
💯 agree. My mind will never be changed on social media ruining kids.
I totally agree. It seems our technology has surpassed our humanity.
Teachers are getting bullied and then gaslit by admins and some "social justice" teachers. No these kids are different. I taught millennials and Gen Z. Millennials even in the hood were fine. Now I have an out of classroom position and am so relieved. I miss teaching but the cell phone has changed the dynamics. It is parents and no school discipline but also cell phone addiction. When you brought up shoplifting it really affected me because it is rampant now in my area to the point I mostly shop online. There is incredible peer pressure to conform.
Omg don't even get me started on cell phones. I'm 27 and I'm on tik tok like everyone else. But kids don't need to me using phones at school ! I taught 2nd grade and there were kids filming videos in the bathrooms....
Especially these social justice young teachers butting into experienced teachers classes only to later realize the kid is playing them and then treat the bad kid worse.
@@kathleenkirchoff9223 That is so on point.
This. The screens and the phones and tables and all that ideology and violence on streaming shows and the Internet are creating these behaviors. Millenials were depressed. We were not "fine". Educational system sucks since then and before and it needed to be improved urgently, but instead it was made much much worse. They even stopped praying at schools.
Yeah the point you made about private Christian schools being 10x worse are absolutely true!! I got bullied to the point where I was threatening to unalive myself, and I got kicked out for being suicidal but my bullies were protected!! My daughter will not be going to a Christian school!!
Ps: the reason I was bullied was because I had epilepsy.
Pps: the bullies weren’t just kids, they were teachers too!!
I'm so sorry that happened to you! 🥺❤🙏🏽
I used to go to a private Christian school until my 11th grade year and switched to a public rural school. It wasn't perfect but the fellow students were a lot more friendly.
Oh man, I went to a Christian school in the 90's and even then it was bad. I was bullied by my classmates and teachers and when my parents tried to get those responsible held accountable, they claimed I was lying and just trying to "stir up trouble". It was a pretty toxic school, and it was such a relief when my parents finally pulled me out of it.
I went to a private Christian school for early elementary over 20 years ago, and everyone was cliqueish and a bully. Holier than thou is real
A Catholic school?
No, I went to school in the 1960s and 70s. Teachers were respected. Even kids with discipline problems respected them and were quiet in class, after the first three "be quiet"s.
Parents respected the teachers, and a teacher with 3 years experience could buy a condo.
Now it is impossible.
That was when your parent, your community, your government and your school worked together . There were less "administrators", no police officers titled as "resource officers" and fewer unions. Now? O boy.
Also, the teachers were "respectable".
If we did anything wrong in the neighborhood or in school we would hear about it when we got home and we knew that. If a neighbor saw something they would call your mom and she would BELIEVE them, not just claim we were little angels. Also we would be outside all day during our free time. We had our own adventures, games and learning. I can fix things, I can build things, I can even find my way around without GPS, can you believe it?
Part of the problem is also the positive reinforcement techniques that schools began to embrace in the early 2000s. The problem child soon learns that they can be bad 99% of the time, but the second they want something, they can be good and will be the child chosen because its all about focusing on good behavior and not punishing bad behavior. This is not only an injustice to the good kids, but it also teaches the problem kids how to manipulate to get what they want. 🤷
My wife get so mad when the admins tell her to reward a kid for doing something they should do as in sit down. This is in the 5th grade. Half of them still don’t know how to add or subtract.
Wasn't positive reinforcement proven to be more effective in a study?
@@SMCwasTakensending a child back to class with a lollipop, pep talk, and a pat on the back after being removed for being disruptive teaches them they get a break and a lollipop. So no, the type of positive reinforcement they’re doing in schools is not producing great results.
The biggest negative change I see in school discipline over the past 60 years (that really nobody in the know really debates) is not that kids and teens misbehave (for, it's true they always have and always will do that) it's that THE PARENTS/GUARDIANS AND THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS NO LONGER SIDE WITH (nor help/lead) THE TEACHERS in trying to CORRECT student misbehavior when it occurs like they once did. Instead, too many parents today are too lazy, too self-absorbed, too narcissistic, or just simply too drug-addicted themselves to face or even care when their child has behavior issues. And the administrators are so frightened of these dysfunctional parents and their attorneys, that sadly, all too often, the school administration usually sides with the psycho parent against the teacher, to keep from getting sued and lose their chance to get promoted someday to the happy hunting-ground known as the "central office.". This was rare 60 years ago, but has increasingly become the norm. So, the poor teacher is now too often forced to parent, teach, and discipline the child WITHOUT THE POWER TO DO ANY OF THE THREE effectively. So, of course they quit. What the hell else can they do in a society that no longer has the resolve and love of truth necessary to completely commit to success any more? You end up creating a nation filled with lazy, manipulative, self-destructive sycophants and bureaucrats rather than one filled with virtuous leaders and competent and responsible tradesmen who take pride in themselves, their craft, and the strength and success of their community. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. And that hand needs to work WITH the teacher in helping to socialize and instruct the child, not indulge and ignore the child.
AMEN.
This was happening in the 1960s. So much for progress.
Yes. It kinda began after WWII, but really took off in the 1960's. It's a part of the slow decline of traditional Western values (and corresponding increase in drug use/abuse) in the West that began after WWII and has accelerated exponentially since. And Interestingly also coincides perfectly with the decline in regular church attendance in America that began around 1958. And yes, I was trained to be a history teacher, an impossible task in this past 30+ years of WOKE, sadly.@@jittmet7766
You've made some points about American schools. However, most would very reasonably argue that the turning point occured when they made teachers government workers and not subject to parental/community disapproval. Which led to another crucial point ->allowing government workers to unionize. Which led to another crucial point => admitting school administration to the teachers union. There was civil war in the schools between admin and teachers. Guess who won (admittedly so far)? Give u a hint-it wasn't the teacher. TIP: Always follow the money; parents stopped caring once they did.
The school (teacher and admin) and unions broke trust with parents decades ago by saying that they could be better parents and also by involving government and law enforcement. There were exceptions, but-you know. Parents are forced out of most school actions and activities-outright not informed-, especially those in lower economic situations. Parents are threatened with jailtime and forced child removal if they do not cease teaching their child their values-you know, because the school knows better. Remember those school and class bulletins that used to be sent to homes on the regular; they have been gone for a long time. Attentive parents have to literally hunt for information about what is going on in their childrens school environments-on a weekly basis. It's like pulling teeth.
Yes, I would not disagree with your observation. There are indeed contributing sins in both camps, governmental and popular. And as in most any such feedback loop, it quickly becomes difficult to tell the chicken from the egg as to who is the most guilty. And so that fact quickly becomes practically irrelevant. For they both soon just feed off of each other's actions for excuses to continue their own agendas. But education, as a manipulative tool of a centralized, imperialistic government (for the task, originally, in our case, of pacification of dissidents like Anti-Federalists/ex-Confederates and Native Americans), was a major motivator behind the creation of the universal "free" public education, in the first place, after the end of the American Civil War. Public education in this country really was a result of post Civil War reconstruction policies in both North and South to foster a common set of political ideals and beliefs, coast to coast, as much as it was to meet the needs and desires of a newly industrialized society for literate laborers. Public schooling, as it has unfolded, IS a governing tool, and was essentially birthed as such in the 1870's. And I think it continues to be so now, more than ever. In fact, it seems, at least, nowadays teaching compliance to ever-shifting political agendas has, unabashedly, in some places, taken a priority over teaching life skills in not just the public schools, but, sadly, in the government funded universities as well. If this continues, it will be the undoing of both. For it's causing the American public, to the disbelief of my 56 year old, university educated mind (along with a collapsing standard of living), to finally lose faith in popular education as a positive personal and social good. That's unprecedented! And they are losing that faith at an amazingly fast pace. This is a fundamental shift in basic American values and it has occurred in just the past decade. It reminds me of how the French abandoned the Roman Catholic Church right before and during the French Revolution, because it had become the justifying tool of the oppressive government the People had then decided to remove. Ominous, perhaps. ??? Thank you for your prescient observations. @@shadyfox1758
Retired teacher, then administrator here. Loved teaching at Title 1 schools. Loved my students, my staff, the parents, EVERYTHING! Went into administration to try to turn Title 1 schools around (2), over a twelve year period. Saw what was happening and decided that it was a losing battle. Left for ten years and taught for The Peace Corps. Loved it. Then came home and decided to return to the classroom as a substitute. That went well until COVID happened. NOW, you could not pay me to teach in any classroom in the U.S. I STILL LOVE TEACHING, just don’t have the patience for crazy, entitled children and their parents. I’m teaching, virtually, for The Peace Corps , again, because I want to make a difference. I feel sorry for today’s students and their teachers. This country is in a free fall and all that has been said, is true. We have a problem, a BIG one.
Something we have to understand, is that with the rise of "good vibe parents"/absent parents and the rise of social medias that allow children to post content, we are allowing and encouraging children to raise children.
People are allowing their children to be brought up by strangers on the internet. It’s easier to throw an iPad or iPhone at the kid than it is to actually parent them. I’m not an ogre, I’ve never screamed at or hit my children, but they absolutely know what is expected of them. They are genuinely happier knowing the boundaries and we often get compliments from their teachers, friends and family (and even strangers sometimes) on their manners and behaviour.
I taught in Canada for decades now , but before that I taught a few years in Japan..the differences are astonishing. In Japan there was discipline and respect. Students wore uniforms, were given lots of homework and tests, were assessed and had great community and family support…the curriculum was set and uniform through the country… it was the antithesis of all that exists here..one wonders why we are so divergent..what could be learned by considering their practices… afterall the goal in both is to do the best job for our children..
I get you but would you rather a system that works for the 95-99% of kids giving them a reasonable education while sacrificing a 1-5% of kids who can't keep up.
Or have a system where the classroom is a shit show everyday for the next 12 years.
Society was designed to cater to the majority, once we cater to the minority we end up as you see here@Alice-Lantern
@Alice-Lanternthis is true. But some teachers just dream of "teaching" others since all they want is to get ppl sit and obey what they say. Thats the wrong dream if you ask me. Being a teacher is as hard and devoted as being a parent. This is why I think educational system as we know it is incorrect. Parents need to be with kids and teach them all the basics beyond 3yo, families need to construct a comunity and culture and then teens can chose to go to learn a profession. This was like this in past centuries, the educational system as we all know it started after industrial revolution , so its just indoctrination and its goal is to get both parents to work on the industry, destroying families and familiar small business.
Ya’ll really need to stop glorifying east-asian schools
I'm no teacher- but I run an upscale boutique that is (sadly) very near a high school and middle school. The students are allowed to come to our shopping center for lunch. They're loud, they're sloppy and leave trash, throw food and drinks at each other or just at the wall. They're clueless- they block doorways or just stand in the road blocking cars. If you ask them to move they fly off the handle. We've had them throw their lunch at our windows then call their parent to come buy then new lunch and the parents DID IT ( this happend twice. Parent came in and apologized while their kid was outside eating the 2nd lunch...) no disciple from ANYONE. One boy actually grabbed a womans rear end in the parking lot, his friends filmed and posted it- still no repercussions. It really is gross. I feel for teachers 😢
I teach at a private college. The students age range is around 17 - 27. I was taken aside by the owner of the school about 2 months ago and was told that the students feel disrespected and offended that they have to learn lessons about the topic of the day. I was then told to teach much less as they didn't want to do anything but the "fun stuff". (I work in a school for training for the entertainment/film/fashion industries). The students are given diplomas as they fight about their poor marks, and the curriculum is constantly being reduced and made more and more basic because it is too hard for them. They are now even coming into the school dictating terms and conditions for the school, the staff and the faculty on how they want things done and taught to suit them. It never ceases to take my breath away!
They are offended for learning...at school...?? FFS.
I teach at a couple colleges, ages typically between 15-24 (some non-trads as well). I am constantly policing for plagiarism, cheating and AI use. Some students are getting "better" at it, and do unfortunately get away with it & graduate. It's beyond frustrating.
I'm loving these videos. I subscribed. My daughter is 6 y.o. and is very strong willed, not intimidated by adults or by anyone. Upon seeing this early on, I realized this can go left or right. I taught her to respect her teacher. I work with her teacher and her teacher loves her, tells me she's very diligent and sees her peers talking and she stays (on task). That's because I put the time in.
Also, my daughter doesn't watch TV or music videos. We go out her dad takes her out and does valuable activities with her. And I monitor her on her iPad.
A lot depends on what parents have in their home, and what they expose their kids to.
Wow. You really hit the nail on the head. I have been retired from teaching for many years now, but I have to say that my fellow teachers and I saw this coming 25 years ago. If children run the show at home, they will be uncontrollable at school. I'm seeing this with my own grandchildren which is heartbreaking for me.
Your not alone in this. A friend has regretfully confided in me that she and her husband dread having their grandchildren visit bc they are so out of control. She feels guilty but can't take the stress.
My mother in law lives with us, we run a very tight ship and our kids are homeschooled/ co-op taught in offline setting except to a technology literacy course they get in the co-op.
She has literally cried about how she struggles to have meaningful relationships with her other grandchildren because they are so wild.
@bluemarble46 I don't know, my brother in law is deployed with the Army 6 months a year and his Ex wife has been married and divorced 3 times since that I know of. We still have the boys come stay with us a few times a year, but unfortunately my husband has to take time off work to be home because the older boy who is 12 will beat the stuffing out of my mother in law and I. I think it has a lot to do with technology addiction withdrawal and sugar withdrawal. My children are 9 they have zero internet access not even streaming. No tablets or anything. They have a switch and a Playlist of movies and TV shows we curated but they have to finish their daily responsibilities and have eaten 3 meals in peace before they get it. We pick up their ipads and phones when they arrive because I don't play those games. Some stuff can't be unseen. The boys are 3, 6 and 12 all 3 have a phone and iPad that's completely open like wild west open.
Last time they were with us was because their step father had done something to the middle boy and the children couldn't be in the home with them and their mother wasn't going to make him leave so they were sent to us while the courts handled the case.
Ipads made neglectful parenting socially acceptable. My ex sister in law was at one time my friend, its how she met my husband's brother. She is often uplifted for putting herself and her "mental health" first. Its weird times we live in.
I love my nephews and want the best for them, but I regret introducing her into my family. My brother in law is in the Mediterranean right now. He will be deployed for a year. Think if the boys are here longer than a few week this time we can actually help them. As of now I'm homeschooling them with no co-op classes because I can't trust them not to hit. I can't do that to the other kids who go there. It's very stressful because the oldest boy is bigger and taller than me and has punched me to get his way before. Sadly, I don't know how to fix that other than make sure he never gets his way through violence.
It's very late in the game to be introducing discipline and boundaries though. He's already watching p*rn and the crazy violent stuff too. We went through his phone when he got here because we took it and his history was crazy.... nauseating... frightening.
I don't even know if trying a mental health care facility could help him anymore. 12 is still just a baby.
People think that there's always these different learning styles and approaches to teaching but no matter what approach you take kids are going to have to be able to sit down and shut up
Thank you for the video! I’m a substitute teacher / aspiring teaching. I told my husband that the difference now compared to before, is that we’re currently teaching Millennial’s kids. The baby boomers are more strict, conservative and traditional therefore their kids were not as bratty! Millennial parents are not as disciplined, and now that we’re in the Internet age, parents are no longer parenting (because they’re burnt out or on social media) and allow their kids to do what they want (going on devices all day). So guess what.. the kids don’t want to be in school so they’ll give teachers a hard time.
As a 20 year vet who gave it last June, I can say that this lady speaks the truth. Mic-drop worthy.
School libraries in my district stopped charging book fines years ago. It was one of the reasons that contributed to me quitting my job in 2022. It's a lot of work cataloging, repairing, and curating a balanced library when you have to buy the same books over and over and deal with the frustrations that other kids have when these books never come back for them to check out. The district librarian told us we could no longer require fines to be paid. The same was true for $500 iPads and replacement charging cords. When you're the one responsible for repairing and keeping an inventory of these for 600+ students it gets tiring. When do you have time to do your actual job?
I began subbing in 2020. Our school district needed subs during the pandemic, and my normal job had Fridays off. I decided to work at my son's junior high. What an eye-opening experience! If every parent could see what is happening daily, they would be astonished. It is exactly like you mentioned, and I see it only getting worse. I live in an affluent neighborhood where many parents don't believe their children are capable of these behaviors. Thank you for sharing your experiences....I share your videos with other parents because you articulate it so much better than I do.
I saw a person with a shirt that said” Success for All” it sounds so good! Fair, Inclusive, but that’s the problem, You need to earn success, not just handed to you, and it’s from experiencing much struggle and failure.
Context?
Like when all information we needed for a “term paper” had to be sought out at the school library, written in rough form in pencil, then done neatly in pen before handing in. Took notes in class, actually STUDIED from books, again, looking up information FROM BOOKS, spending hours writing papers, etc. Hated it at the time, but now, in my late 70’s and seeing what is going on today, I’d do it all again! 😊
I got what I believe is legit PTSD from my two years teaching high school in Memphis. It was terrifying and immensely depressing. Now I'm a fake teacher (a sub) in the upper Midwest. I'm never going back to real teaching. At least nobody blames a sub for the children's evil conduct.
Ooh, interesting! If I ever have to go back to teaching, maybe I'll keep that option in mind. I hate getting blamed for stuff that isn't my fault.
If you aren’t telling the truth about this! I’ve always said our kids are bad because school leaders are enabling the parents to be bad. Teachers’ hands are tied behind their backs and the kids run the schools. My wife works at a so-called “Christian” daycare and she can tell you some stories.
No surprise, two years ago, I was talking to an elementary school teacher at lunch. She said it was impossible to teach children because she is so busy dealing with child behavior, she can’t teach.
Anyway this is a horrible trend that needs to change - but you do have to have the help of parents.
And what makes me sad is I’ve seen it in my wife’s side of the family. The grandchildren of her son are horrid. Now her son tries to keep a lid on things but his ex wife - who is a very nice person and will help out BUT she lets her children do whatever they want. She treats them like adult friends not her children. They’re ( grandchildren) get tons of toys. They get more toys in a week than I got all year long as a child.
"She said it was impossible to teach children because she is so busy dealing with child behavior, she can’t teach.": I feel the same way. Parents expect teachers to raise their kids, but then complain that there is rarely any actual teaching happening.
@@07Flash11MRC same here, I teach elementary specials all grades. The kids attitudes are so awful. They talk back to you, are lazy, and complain about everything. There are only about 30% of the kids in each of my classes that are polite and well behaved. I feel so sorry for them that their education is getting ruined by these other disrespectful, out of control kids.
Respect to ALL teachers because kids these days are horrible. I cannot imagine wat you'all go through. We thank u for ur service❤
These trends started in the 1990's.
The comment about a bad job consisting of a combination of high responsibility and low power really resonated with me. I experienced too many times being told to make the kids follow the rules, but if a kid chose to challenge my "authority", and if I did or said anything the kid didn't like, I was cast as the abusive monster, and the kid was treated like a victim whose self-esteem was under attack.
“This system is unsustainable.” Nailed it‼️
This society is unsustainable!
Yes! Well said! Thanks for speaking the truth. I left teaching at the end of the school year 2023. I have a commercial driver license and I completely changed my career to driving large vehicles. I never thought I would leave teaching but I am SO much healthier and happy. Your videos are helping me heal.
"You need to give your child a cellphone, for their safety".... cue the horror movie music. Social media is their parent now.
The image that speaks/ image of the beast, which is the tel-a-vision/ big screen hollywood/mtv- music industry, has seemingly and effectively reached its intended purpose of poisoning the people's hearts and minds.
It is the image of the beast, image that speaks, foretold in the Bible (Revelation).
It sets itself up against all that is called God, blasphemes His name, promotes and teaches Sin, makes Sin look cool and funny.
Things are so deteriorated now that there is no hope, absolutely none, outside the intervention of God The Father and Jesus Christ.
It's going to get worse and will only stop once Jesus returns and the 1000 millennium starts.
The only thing anyone can do at this point is pray and start reaching out, especially to the youth, with the word of God.
Know your Creator, there is a standard of behavior towards others- love your neighbor as yourself LITERALLY PRACTICE IT.
We are held accountable by God for our behavior. Judgement is already happening because the adults have not been feeding the children the word of God, now they are lawless in their behavior. Adults have in ignorance let the celebrities set the moral standard for children and now look what society is reaping - SIN, SIN AND MORE SIN- VIOLENT AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, NO RESPECT, LACK OF EMPATHY, ETC....
Exactly. As if the front office phone no longer exists. In the event of an emergency, what can a cellphone do anyway? The kid can call their parents but in the event of a lockdown, the parents can't enter the school to get their child. Procedures are done to keep the kids safe and because of active shooter drills, the kids are probably a little more safe than they would in the past because of some random shooter doing something nobody expects. Every adult in the building has to wear an ID badge and needs them to access any point in the building. Doors aren't allowed to stay open and they must be locked at all times. Things do happen but a cellphone is not going to get the child to a safe space AFTER an incident has begun. It would only serve to get the parent more agitated. Since the classroom is supposed to be dark and quiet to avoid attention, the child wouldn't be on the cell phone anyway.
I needed that cuz I had selective mutism as a child (social anxiety disorder) and couldn't.speak up for myself, so my mom told me to bring it since I always got lost on the first day of school tryna ride the school bus
@@Coco-lz4gg oh yea thats fine, school calls parent during lockdown
TikTok challenge in destroying bathrooms resulted in almost every boys bathroom being locked. Student boys that needed to use the bathroom had to walk all the way to the other side of the school to find one that wasn’t locked. So rather than giving guilty students consequences everyone suffering was the solution in hopes that peer pressure from fellow classmates would help.
Bro , China is laughing their asses off. Their trick worked way too well.
The exact same thing happened in the school I taught. I had a bad feeling that destroying bathrooms had something to do with students challenging each other, but I had no idea it was a global phenomenon thanks to social media.
@@07Flash11MRC I'm a music teacher and they destroy instruments also. I've had to take several of my instruments away from the students for the entire year because they think it's funny to destroy school property
@@kris78787 Gosh, that really sucks. I'm so sorry. I was an English as a third language teacher, so this behavior didn't necesarily have an impact on me personally.
@@07Flash11MRC yep it's so ridiculous and sad. They broke 2 of my marimbas and then wonder why we can't do anything fun anymore in music.
My library removed fines. Now they just change you a replacement fee for the book if you don't return it.
My niece started highschool and through Tictok got into fights (later got shot shes alive but long story). But what started in her case was over permissive parents because of medical issues when she was a baby and both of them having to work.
A bigger issue is that schools are essentially treated as free child care and it really shouldn't be.
I understand why especially in this economy everyone has to work especially single parents. I genuinely think that the push for more women to work was to increase taxes while lowering wages.
Also schools are also a school to college debt pipeline creating parents over busy with trying to pay it and neglect their kids 😢.
Forcing all women to enter the workforce is a huge part of this generational problem. Woke people and feminists can argue all they want, but it’s clearly just a fact that children need a parent in the home running the house. Most families would clearly be better off for it. When both parents work, nobody has the time or energy to parent
@@tsrocks2029 Ohhh that's so misogynistic !!!!
@@tsrocks2029 but we need money for pensions ….long term life insurance ….medicare is done
Student loans could be paid off in 1-5 years if you do work smart. !!!
Women do have to enter workforce because ADULTS need to cover themselves …we don’t have safety nets in this country before or after feminism
Before feminism :
Women couldn’t own property
Have bank accounts
Access credit etc etc
Male relatives made all the decisions….
Women rights is like 80 years old
If you are mad be mad a bank and zombie corporations that don’t pay taxes and stay getting bailed out
@@tsrocks2029 Then maybe Republicans need to stop killing all childcare reform so it gets cheaper. The reason both parents have to work is because shit is so ridiculously expensive. This isn't the 50s anymore where a basic entry level job could pay for an actual house and not an apartment. 1 income could afford multiple children etc. You want to blame something, blame the republican party submitting to their massive lobbying "donations"
@@tsrocks2029 I totally agree 👏
I work in a middle school and I see all these awful behaviors that you're describing. I have talked to the teacher I work under and I said that if there is no discipline or repercussions for their behavior, then the parents should have to pay for their child to go to an alternative school where they get the help they need to turn their behavior around and also therapy for the family so they can know how to raise their children. They need to teach their children right from wrong and they have to work hard to get the grades to pass. Unfortunately in our middle school and apparently a lot of schools, we just keep pushing them on even though they do NO WORK! I also feel that if they can't pass the grade that they're in, they have to do summer school, paid by the parents, or repeat the grade. I feel like if the behavior is bad enough and they're in middle school and high school, then their parents should pay for boot camp for their child and the parents have to go to parenting classes so they know how to raise their child. I know I'm going to get flack for this but honestly I'm so tired of the behaviors and no consequences for the kids. I'm honestly looking for another job because I'm so tired of the behaviors with absolutely no consequences. We need to change this around now before we have a generation of entitled adults that will do absolutely no work and expect anything and everything!! Also we need God and Jesus in our hearts, minds, words, and actions. I really think a lot of these kids aren't raised with a good foundation of morals. They're all about what they can get for themselves.
Been saying what you said boot camp !!!
Communism in the near future
I love my Preschool students. It breaks my heart to see some of their future paths😢
Thank you my dear, retired teacher here. So refreshing to see a young intelligent teacher expressing what so many of us old fogies felt and were not able to say it.
Finally someone saying the truth. Parents are the reason. When I was in school in the 1970s. And not having discipline in school has added to the monsters being created. Things are out of control and the parents too. And I grew up in the drug abusing and free love era. But I knew if I did anything like that and my parents found out I wouldn’t be able to sit comfortably for a while ! When my children entered school I let them know ad long as they did their best that would be acceptable. Anything below a C would give rise for concern but we would deal with it if became an issue. The only thing that would get them in trouble would be being disrespectful to the teachers and staff. My son in 5th grade did not listen when they were talking in the hall. He and the kids with him all got after school detention. I called to find out what happened and the principal explained and I told him that my son would be there. The principal told me that they other kids parents already had called and yelled at them and they wouldn’t be there for detention. That’s sad. The offensive wasn’t a serious concern but my son
needed to learn actions have consequences. And more importantly if they were asked to do anything as long as it doesn’t go against Gods law they were to do it. PS. Both of my children excelled in school. And they excelled in college too. And now they are married, son for 13 years and my daughter 17 years with 3 sweet grandchildren and raise them the way I did as they had a happy childhood and want the same for their children.
My child will never set foot in a public school for k through 12, lol.
My wife is a teacher., can’t tell you the amount of days she’s came home crying from behavior issues. She’s sent bad kids to the principal only for them to come back 5 minutes later with a lollipop, essentially rewarding terrible behavior. “Kids run the schools, not admin or teachers” -her words
If this is how bad they are as children, they’ll never make it in the adult working world.
Well then. At least in the adult world they'll be facing consequences for their (criminal) actions for the first time in their lives.
A lot of kids nowadays never make it into adulthood. Many still live at home well into their 30s and beyond. Young people have crippling social anxiety as a result of being raised by the Internet and never having to engage with other people in the real world. They fear and mistrust everybody. "All men are rapists," they say. "Everyone who doesn't agree with me is a fascist" or "literally Hitler," and so forth.
The whole "iPad baby" thing came about because there was a drive to teach kids computer literacy in the 1980s so that nations could gain a competitive advantage economically. That somehow morphed into "you have to give your baby an iPad so they'll have a head start." Such nonsense. A senior citizen can learn to operate an iPad in 5 minutes.
Knowing how to use a mobile device isn't "computer literacy" anyway. They don't teach a kid how computers work. They don't teach a kid how to program. In the 1990s, everybody had their own website. That was one of the first things we did when we got online.
Nowadays, everybody is a social media addict. They complain about the abuses of big tech companies, yet they won't lift a finger to do something about it. It's always "someone (other than myself) should make an alternate platform." They're afraid to learn HTML despite it being one of the easiest skills to master. The Web was designed for ordinary people, not professional developers.
For the younger generations, it's all about becoming famous and making big bucks as an "influencer" on a platform they didn't create themselves. They're intellectually lazy and incurious. They evaluate things based on emotion rather than reason. They'll always be slaves to the corporations they despise because they won't make even a token effort to free themselves.
@@07Flash11MRC those consequences are going to make the rod look like cotton candy.
On the 90's cartoons thing, they threw in a lot of innuendos, the difference was as a kid you wouldn't get the references, but as an adult, they're all over the place. Rugrats was a big one, Dr. lipschitz (lip shits), one episode had grandpa referencing an adult movie, etc.
Music wasn't any better either, rock bands in the 80/90's were talking about sex all the time. All that stuff was still in media, the only difference now though is they're less subtle with it.
The 80s and 90s culture made the parents of today, so true.
People who only watched these shows and listened to this music as little kids wont realize any of this. It proves the fact that this media, as you said, was more subtle. Kids getting unsupervised access to the entire internet is exposing them to the worst stuff.
Things were a lot more censored back when I was growing up. The f word was actually bleeped out of songs and movies etc. Now hardly anything is censored, and children have 24/7 access to it all via smartphones and social media.
@@kris78787 go back and watch beetleguese, Keaton drops 2 f-bombs. One is there if you listen close enough (the end of the scene with a brothel) and the other is super blatant. It's a PG movie and went on to have a cartoon series. Ghostbusters makes a penis joke, it got a full toy line and cartoon series. The mask. The first ninja turtles movie has raph saying damn it, twice. These examples were not subtle and all of those were rated PG, and were the reason we made the PG-13 rating.
The cartoon specifically were under heavily scrutiny because they started as being made for kids. But a lot of the nicktoons threw in some out-of-pocket content and jokes. Especially in the early 90's.
@@ncolvin05 I never said EVERYTHING was censored back then, I said a lot more was censored than it is today. I remember watching certain movies or listening to certain songs on the radio as a child where the cuss words were bleeped out. Today, hardly anything is ever bleeped out. It has definitely gotten much more worse than when I was growing up.
This is what happens when parents collectively believe that spanking is “child abuse”.
“Gentle parenting” doesn’t work for probably 80% of children.
If the government didn't decide that we nor the school can spank a child's behind is were we got lost. I'm gen X and we would never act like this because we knew what was coming. It's time these kids learned what mess around and find out means.
Ha! I am a recently retired (prepandemic 2020) UNI prof -- that's right, UNIVERSITY -- that noticed the same f-ing problems in my classrooms that av 80 students.
I had to ban all electronics (cells, laptops, tablets), and enforce the ban by ejecting students from my classroom for violations. I got only tepid support from admin, who increasingly shifted over time to support of student&helicopter parent complaints. And, students that felt that they should get a passing grade in spite of medocre to terrible coursework because "But I came to every class!"
We are doomed!
btw, I loved TheSimpsons growing up!!!
Yep!
Adjunct professor for 12 years….constantly on their cell phones…
My final semester was a male student (in his 30’s) who didn’t like it when I told him an answer was wrong and got up and started throwing chairs..flunked 2 tests and didn’t turn in last 3 assignments and was constantly pressured by Administration to pass him.
I’m refused.
They didn’t renew my contract.
Sorry that happened to you, @@sunnydae6602. I hope something good will happen for you in 2024!
Academia isn't what it was like when I was in grad school in the '90s... Now students are seen as "the customer" of the biz of teaching, and we're expected to please them.
I was fortunate to be able to retire and get my minimal pension, which takes care of the basics. Much better than dealing with bratty students and appeasing/incompetent admin.
And they make horrible employees down the road. A boss tells him no phones or music and they will make excuses, throw fits, and even ask for a work time where a more lenient supervisor is working.
This is exactly why I've become the strict sit down, be quiet, no fun, no nonsense, consequences for every little thing that annoys me teacher. I'm absolutely done with their nonsense. Since I've been this way, life is pretty good at school right now.
At 15:40 she makes a point I stress very strongly in my own teaching when I discuss the principle of "subsidiarity." I point out that it's unjust, and an offense against human dignity, to assign responsibility without also granting the corresponding and proportionate responsibility over the same arena of action. And she's exactly right that that's exactly what tends to happen in the teaching profession today. Teachers have very little authority and a huge amount of responsibility. My experience teaching at the college level is quite different (still . . . for now?) but at the secondary level I would say that teachers should be regarded as being on the bottom side of a tremendous power imbalance. The students have more power than the teacher does, and there's a whole room full of them. In any other setting, the treatment to which teachers are often subject at the hands of their students would be classified as harassment, and we would take legal action to stop it. But teachers have only one recourse: to find a different job.
Principals won’t even kick these kids out of school. My principal excuse was THEY COME FROM A DIFFERENT BACKGROUND SO WE CANT JUDGE
They have no solutions and expect teachers to raise these kids 😮
First graders used to be sweet 😮😮
You are so right! I can't give grades lower than 55% even when the students do nothing. They are addicted to their phones. So many read well below grade level. The behaviors are like the big elephant in the room. They love to do PL on the latest strategies to use in the class. But, it is so hard to use them because of the extreme classroom behaviors. They can't even be quiet to watch a short video.
Parents. The problem is the culture of people who are doing the parenting. “My truth” vs the truth. Being PC. Lowering standards and expectations in education. Lack of moral values. It’s disgusting.
Being politically correct causes behaviors??? No, it's bad parenting and lack of morals in our society (Trump and his violent lackeys).
"This system is unsustainable." Yes. That's what we teachers said daily, during my one-and-done year of teaching (2020-21!) And now we're seeing the fallout from it as these kids enter the workforce. A friend of mine manages a nice business. She told me the Gen Zers she hires are unable to focus, can't put down their phones, expect to be paid high salaries without having to earn them, and have an overwhelming sense of entitlement. What, exactly, are the companies of today and tomorrow going to do?
I was a child in the 1950s and early 1960s. I just realize why people think of those days as ideal. Because our parents disciplined us. We were raised knowing our actions had consequences even in schools. Yes, bring back the board of education to put against the seat of learning when needed.
I would add addiction to tech/ “gamification” of curricula as one of the items on your list. Having everything on chromebooks has been a nightmare and every year we see it in the scores.
This is why we have chosen to homeschool our 4 children currently pregnant with #5, and my boys had a very hard time with their peers. They are 10 (twins) and 8 years old. We have about 18 kids in our neighborhood and they built friendships with some but as soon as the parents started letting them play Fornite or other violent video games non stop those kids drastically changed got very mean and now my kids don't have hardly any friends. I'm incredibly grateful for places like our church to fellowship and get to know others who are on the same plaintiff as us. When we went to our homeschool group with over 100 other families, there was not one phone in sight! It was so refreshing to watch other children playing outside and adults actually talking face to face. Homeschool families truly value childhood innocence, something this generation doesn't care about anymore. Let the children be children, get them off the brainwashing internet, and get them outside playing - hell, go kick a ball with your son or daughter its the most universal toy!! I'll be 30 as well this July, and it's a shame how people nowadays do not value marriage or a strong family unit. It all begins in the HOME!
Worst part is, when these kids turn 25 years old and become adults. Everything that they lack they will blame on culture or the teachers. If they’re dumb because they can’t stop thinking about memes and dreams then they’re dumb enough to blame the teachers. I’m so sorry to all the teachers out there just trying to go to work.
I taught off and on from 1993 to 2017. There definitely was a decline in behavior and respect.
So as a library worker I can answer to what my library has seen since going fine free.
Honestly it just results in less theft and higher circulation.
People were generally wary to use the library because on the occasion they forgot to return library items they accrued a fine.
We also get the late items back more often. People tended to keep the items espesially the longer overdue they were.
Its not like we dont fine ever. Failure to return the item, after a month (at my library) of overdue status, results in us billing the patron for the item and the suspension of their account until it is either paid for or returned.
I used to run a project called innocence not for sale around the 2010 times, and i saw the sexualization, and disrespectful behaviour prior to that, especially coming from music videos, and the subliminal and often blatant messages in kids films, I was thinking of starting the project up again but need support from communities which we didn't get back then.
I left after 23 years for this very reason. I was a prison guard without being armed. I didn’t go to school for that mess. Leaving was the best decision of my life.
Yup, you hit the nail on the head. Loss of consequences = the downfall of society. This is what unfettered liberalism gives us. And it's happened more than once throughout history.
Yes, it's the liberal agenda. We're the ones that don't hold people accountable 🙄
It’s happening all across society and as she says in the video, unfettered access to tech and social media is a big problem. We also have more parents stretched thin and working harder to make ends meet because wages have not kept up, abysmal governmental support around daycare and paternity/maternity leave. There’s a wealth gap that keeps growing bigger by the decade and the conservatives just want to cut taxes more for the rich. Congress just passed a budget that CUT ten billion in IRS enforcement. So, more wealthy tax evaders, more disparity. If you want to live in a better behaved society there has to be more fundamental fairness. So parents can actually be more available to parent.
Parenting has definitely changed. Schools no longer have a consistent discipline framework. They both work together. If parents are letting students do whatever at home…what do you think those same students will do at school?!
What about the parents? Are they in a coma or have patience beyond belief? Or just are ignoring their kids?
Yes I think a lot of these problems can be blamed on overly sensitive parents who clearly do not understand the importance or value of education. Or basic respect for others who also care about their children. This makes me worry about the future of our country. I’m not joking
@@EJ1443i mean, yes and no. The reality is that unless you put your kids on extreme lockdown they are more exposed and influenced by externalities than parents.
And the reality is that most parents don't have the time these days
Do not become a teacher! It’s a horrible environment, there is no teaching involved, kids do not care about learning, neither do the parents. I am going to find a job that pays more and benefits me for a change.
*what I mean is parents who overreact when teachers or coaches etc politely tell them their children are rude and don’t respect them. And also parents who are cool with book bans, anti comprehensive sex Ed. Flip out over their children learning about WW2 and the genocides that happened during that war. (Yes there’s more than the holocaust unfortunately) . Those parents don’t actually care about education or respecting their children intelligence and resilience by sheltering them from “scary/harmful” topics that people should know by adulthood!
Have you been out in public with parents today? It's all about telling their kids 16 times to stop, chasing them, laughing about bad behavior and then just giving in. They missed the formative years of these children- learning how to sit, listen etc, in a basic human setting.
And heaven forbid you attempt calling someone out on their parenting. “You sayin I’m a bad parent?!” YES! They’re a menace that can’t behave and they get it from you!
From the time I began teaching until the time I retired, the students had completely changed. No consequences for bad behavior had the inmates running the asylum.
When it comes to parenting: Good vibes lead to bad crimes.
Fucking 100%, cannot say how much this is fucking true
I started homeschooling my son (15) because he was so fed up with the way kids acted at school (and other reasons)
Yes I agree and I am a young millenial ( mid-90’s baby) and I feel the effects of teaching generation z and/or older generation alpha. I have had a lot of challenges and will be at a new school for the new year. I also am from an urban environment and was the product of the environment that I teach in. I definitely feel being laughed at and disrespected constantly and I also noticed growing up that my peers were disrespectful. I definitely feel that things have gotten worse due to the different expectations such as the no zero policy and no detentions.
I'm early (older) genX at 53. My son was born 2001, so he's 22 now. I will stand firm that social media and the high amount of any screen time (TV included). I allowed him to play with an iPod when he was about 8 and I was grocery shopping, I will add his ADHD and autism have made parenting a challenge... esp when I was diagnosed myself at 49 (2019) so a lot of what he did I had no clue what to do with it, as I was in the same boat, that being said, he took to that dopamine rush from video games and things like farmville back in the early 2000s, Once youtube came along he spent more time watching others play that he did. I got him into skylanders because several of his buddies played and the moms said it was a good game to play.
I ended up playing with him a lot too lol Hey I grew up on pacman and donkey and all those in the arcades lol
But I saw that he was more wound up after being on too much screen time. I got him into summer camp for autism, yeah, that one kid- you know with the really rich parents that donate a lot so that the camp will take the little beast and keep their mouths shut, so mummy and daddy can have a summer of peace and quiet... they had one of those. I gave up on that and it was just my son and I most of the time being outdoors and spending time "homeschooling". I've spoken with other moms and they agree (as do their kids who can now articulate it) that home is home. School, church, anything that is outside of the house does not come in and home stuff isn't done at school- homework for example is not done at home.
And that PTSD, I have it so bad from dealing with the school administration. Once my son went to school in another state (he fostered out for 18 months with other family) we realized that having him in special ed was so boring, and while the staff was great with kids that were very slow learners, they had no idea how to handle a really smart kid that just learned differently.
They refused to work with me and the IEP. I'm so glad school is done! My son wants to take some online classes "just to learn new stuff". And I think he's ready.
The teachers were so overwhelmed ( this is NY State) by the insanity of what the state was asking of them, they had every reason to just not be able to give my son "special needs care" when it came to how he learned. The district here in western NY is massive with 5 high schools and I forget the amount of elementary and middle schools (they blend the HS and MS in many cases)and in all that there is only ONE person fully trained in how to help autistic kids learn and help the staff and families to work together.
Talk about overwhelming?!?! That woman was a saint and they gave her so little help.
In the 70s and 80s if you were to act like kids did now, the teachers would, and did, give you a pounding! Moreso in the 70s. I lived in the inner city for a while, but spent most of the time in very very very very very rural (only 1,002 for the population!), then in suburbia for four years. I did it all.
back in the 70s we were just told to toughen up. but it wasn't guns and knives and gangs of kids in an all out brawl. it was the typical bully leader and a few toadies that would single out the "weird kids" and torment them.
I'm genX too and while the kids are different I can say the schools and teachers are too. To think the kids have changed without acknowledging the teaching has too is misleading. I also very much blame social media. I don't fully know the solution but I can hardly wait until my kids are out of the system too.
@@pbandjedi5006 Common core is nuts! My son was peeved that it made no sense. I showed him "old fashioned" math (I have dyscalculia so I can't do math to save my life) and he was like, THAT makes sense.
I told him to do the school math at school but everywhere else, do the old math. Even then, I was taught the beginnings of common core! My Grandfather thought it was bonkers as he TRIED to show me how to do math.
My son spent all his time learning how to take take tests and do homework. He never really learned much of anything. I did a lot of that as "fun time" so he'd not think it was school at home. He loves encyclopedias online and wikihow, we both watch a ton of science and history from youtube (so much good stuff) I talk politics to him in what I think is neutral. I have strong views but I want him to come to his own conclusions. I ask questions and let him think about it.
We've done well, but if I could've homeschooled I most certainly would've!
You are correct. Kids are NOT the same. They are worse. The kids are "in charge." I feel for teachers today. God bless y'all 🙏🏽.
Parents not parenting and cell phones are the two biggest issues.
I just retired and I was lucky with the kids I got during my career and never had go to school on fear,but the same hasn’t been true for close friends. I’m volunteering this year and a close friend who is an excellent kinder teacher has one of these violent kids this year. Her arms are a colorful blend of bruises, scabbed over scratches,and bite marks. She’s not the only one.Her support has been meetings where she’s told to make clear plans on how she deals with it and follow through. That’s it. Parents who know her and requested her are begging to have their kids removed from the class.There are no real consequences in school it’s all about just putting up with it and changing the classroom to appease him. He’s little. What happens as he grows.
To explain Plato, every civilization will have ups and downs. He was experiencing a peak of his time, and so are we. But like all things human we escalate things with technology. Wars went from swords to nuclear power fast. And with social media bullying and other malicious behavior has been amplified exponentially, as literally everyone in the world can join.
When I teach, I try to introduce my students to things like Sister RosettaTharpe, Motown, Carole King, the Counting Crows etc. Students are actually craving good direction. On the last day of school last semester when almost no kids show, a student who lives in a family of 11 came into my classroom and said he wanted to see a "sad movie." So I showed him Hachi a Dog's Tale with Richard Gere and Joan Allen. He watched all the way through. Kids also like it when I use the Twlight Zone to teach English Language Arts. These are things teachers can do in small measure to counteract the lack of values today. I am out of classroom now except for summer school and credit recovery but I never use screens.
The movies and shows that you are showing your students are on a SCREEN
@janesmith8050 not what they meant 🤦♀️
@janesmith8050 not what they meant 🤦♀️
@@janesmith8050 Right but I generally have them do assignments on paper, or use discussions or simulations that are not computer based. I'm surprised you can't make that distinction.
@@darlingdeb7010 Thanks. That's correct. What I meant is students write with pen and paper, complete other assignments generally without a screen.
I'd never step foot in a classroom again. I used to teach in inner-city Los Angeles, and I loved it. And I tried suburban and private schools. They're worse! Much worse! Now...no chance...not ever!
I have 20 and 19 year old. I have always gotten compliments about how respectful and discipline my children are. I raised them like i was raised Caribbean style.
Not a teacher, but a parent, my middle son is about to start his senior year and has frequently come home and told me how disgusted he is with many other students behavior and how annoying it is that they are so disruptive. I worry so much for our future for the reasons of lack of education, how are at going to have enough doctors, skilled trades, lawyers, etc. not to mention the other societal issues that come from having so many people that are not disciplined and respectful. I’m so glad I’m raising my kids better, while at the same time, fearing for their future and the society they need to deal with. We can see it already and it’s a scary thing. My youngest child is only 6, I know you said this stuff goes on in all schools, but I put him in a charter school and I have some hopes, no red flags yet and parents have been invited to attend special days at the school and we are allowed to come into the school, it’s very transparent, and so far, so good. The students all seem very respectful and well behaved any time I’ve seen them. If this goes south though, I’m prepared to homeschool.
The system is sooo frustrating. I quit teaching in 2016. But, sometimes, I fantasize about applying for a teaching position. I imagine all the wonderful **wrong** answers I could give to the interview questions. You know, like how would you handle a student who is repeatedly disruptive? And I fantasize how I would reach into my backpack and pull out a nasty looking paddle and say, "I'd give them a good spanking to begin with." I would just love to watch their expressions. Obviously, I wouldn't get such a job. But just the pleasure to see their expressions of horror.
Something I don't fantasize about but sincerely wish I had done is to stand up to the administration with all the absurd rules. I tried my best to stand up, but I was also afraid of losing my job and not knowing what I would do next. In my last year, I should have recognized that I would be leaving. I didn't. Had I known I would be leaving, I might have spoken my mind more freely with the admin, I might have said, "OK. That's how you feel, but that's not how I'm going to run my classroom." Yet, even as I write these words, I know nothing would have made a difference.
It's all so unfortunate. Teaching was my passion. Occasionally I think, perhaps I should give it a try again. But, I know the hell I had to go through last time. I don't have the energy or the patience for that anymore.
It seems nearly everyone (except the teachers) fails to understand what education is about: learning. If you don't put in the hard work, you don't learn. Period. It doesn't matter whether you have the greatest teacher in the world or the worst. It doesn't matter whether your teacher is loving and doting or a strict disciplinarian. Learning is each individual's responsibility. It is an investment in the individual's future. And until parents, society, school district policy setters and admin, etc start reminding students, "yeah, this is hard work, but, if you don't do it now, it's going to be ten times worse later." In fact, it might be impossibly worse.
I've got quite a few decades behind me. I've watched this colossal train-wreck get worse and and worse by the year. Yet, I still can't comprehend how as a society we've failed to inculcate responsibility and a basic understanding of consequences and repercussions failure to do what needs to be done.
Returning to my fantasy I started this with. No, I would never spank a child. But, to even suggest that I would has a consequence: I would not get the job. At this point in my life, I can live with that consequence. But at 7 or 10 or 14 or 18, these children (and a lot of culpability falls on the parents) are setting themselves up for a lot of heartbreak and misery. This will not end well.
There will always be students (and parents) who do the right thing. But the current approach is going to lead to a multi-tiered system of the truly educated and the deluded.
I would love to be a fly on the wall if you did go back for such a truthful interview 😂
The things you’ve written are common sense and necessary, yet they would be received as hostile. How sad that wisdom is trampled on, but chaos and foolishness are lauded.
In my country, there was a recent case in which a student (16-17 years old) provoked a professor (60 years old) who had a difficult period in his life (his wife and three brothers died in a short period of time). Another student was filming, the class was laughing. The student did not want to move away, the teacher tried to go outside, but was prevented from doing so. The shoving started and at one point the teacher hit the student. All in all, the teacher ended up in prison, allegedly will be fired, and no disciplinary measures were even mentioned against the students. Only because of public pressure, the teacher was released from prison before Christmas. Self-defense has become a greater crime than attack. With a system that supports bullies, even parents who want to raise their children well do not know what to do, because bullies stay in school, and abused children change schools.
I would just like to add that the school principal condemned the behavior of only the professor instead of offering psychological help to the colleague whose work she supervises. The Minister of Education stated in the media that the professor was drunk, while the police report does not state this. The system is played on the backs of teachers, parents and children. Just try raising your voice against the child and the school will send you a social worker if the child complains at school.
@@Ana-385holy crap??? I’m 17 and I could never imagine someone my age putting their hands on a teacher…im so thankful to be semi normal (besides my adhd/anxiety and stuff) and that I actually know how to handle my emotions. I go to a community college and my professors have gone through some hard things and I’ve just been respectful and not asked further questions because I don’t know and don’t want to get into their personal lives. 🤦♀️ not all gen z are rude, I have hope that most of us don’t act that way but I guess im wrong😢
@@Ariel-lol The saddest thing is that the system favors the bullies who stay in the classes and influence the rest of the kids who are afraid to behave differently for fear that the bullies will turn against them. Of course, not the whole generation is like that (most are ok), but urgent changes must be made. Unacceptable behavior MUST be unanimously condemned, primarily by the profession. And you, just stay like that - reasonable with empathy, a fond memory for teachers 🙂
The image that speaks/ image of the beast, which is the tel-a-vision/ big screen hollywood/mtv- music industry, has seemingly and effectively reached its intended purpose of poisoning the people's hearts and minds.
It is the image of the beast, image that speaks, foretold in the Bible (Revelation).
It sets itself up against all that is called God, blasphemes His name, promotes and teaches Sin, makes Sin look cool and funny.
Things are so deteriorated now that there is no hope, absolutely none, outside the intervention of God The Father and Jesus Christ.
It's going to get worse and will only stop once Jesus returns and the 1000 millennium starts.
The only thing anyone can do at this point is pray and start reaching out, especially to the youth, with the word of God.
Know your Creator, there is a standard of behavior towards others- love your neighbor as yourself LITERALLY PRACTICE IT.
We are held accountable by God for our behavior. Judgement is already happening because the adults have not been feeding the children the word of God, now they are lawless in their behavior. Adults have in ignorance let the celebrities set the moral standard for children and now look what society is reaping - SIN, SIN AND MORE SIN- VIOLENT AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR, NO RESPECT, LACK OF EMPATHY, ETC....
@@Ariel-lol Sorry, I forgot to comment on your "semi normal" opinion on yourself. You are normal because we all have our cracks and scars but that don't give us the right to hurt others because of them, nor to feel sorry for ourselves. Don't be too self-critical about these things, but stay self-critical enough to keep working on yourself. Good luck girl! 💪😉
This is an excellent video. Thank you. I'm going to forward it to people who don't understand.