The Gen Alpha Situation Doesn't Surprise Me as a Former Teacher
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Working as a teacher and in the corporate world has allowed me to witness cringe in both Gen Alpha and older generations. Though I'm not surprised with Gen Alpha cringe, especially after witnessing some horrors during my time as a teacher. Do you think one is cringier than the other?
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Overbureaucratization is a big part of the problem.The people making deicisions are so far removed from the classroom that they end up doing what sounds good rather than what actually helps to make school better.
Very much agree
Not only that but those who make public school policy have often only attended private schools
As a german, I couldn't agree more. We get nothing done. Everything is soooooooooooo slow. It's draining and completely useless and backwards.
@@vau_stWOW ty. My college literally didn't let me graduate due to each dept having different views
Germany has no money for schools. We have to house and feed millions of "refugees".
As someone who is on the younger end of gen z I have witnessed my friends and peers complain about teachers saying that the teachers are spawn of Satan and what not but they’re usually the nicest teachers I’ve had. The reason those kids don’t like the teachers is because they don’t listen or do their work, they talk when the teacher is talking, don’t even try to do their work, walk around the classroom for absolutely no reason. If you are getting antsy and need to take a walk ask don’t walk around the classroom to talk to your friends while the teacher is trying to have a lesson. I’ve had very few teachers I actually dislike because I do what I’m told
I am also on the younger end of Gen Z, and I do agree that often times kids don't like the teachers because they don't do what they are told. However, I also think that the teachers aren't always good. In my school, we have one teacher who is strict but cares about the students, and gives a lot of homework and essays, but very few people complain about them because they actually teach us. The teachers they do complain about are the ones that teach by showing PowerPoint presentations for each lesson, always assigning busywork and worksheets, teaching by just telling us information instead of helping us to understand it, constantly yelling, etc. Many of these teachers are nice but they don't teach well, so it makes the class boring and students misbehave and complain more.
Im my experience as well, the ONLY kids with problems getting along with the teachers, were the ones who didn’t do shit in class, didn’t listen, etc. gee wonder why the teacher hates you and you hate them, too.
Also on the younger end of Gen Z. I have never disliked a teacher before until my High School’s Spanish I class. Teachers can be shit, full on, horrible teachers. I’m in all honours courses (with the exception of my electives) so I know how to do my work and what kind of learning works best for me. The Spanish teacher I’m talking about seems to actively try to make out schoolwork harder. She will give us assignments that don’t pertain to the subject we’re on, as well as refusing to actually teach somedays and instead uploading all of our work online and telling us to just do it. This *isn’t* a good teaching style. You can’t just not teach your students and put things online without also letting those students come to ask for help while also not belittling and making those kids feel *more confused* after giving them an explanation. Students can be shit, but teachers can also be plain out of whack as well.
@@OhsweetOhno my science teacher used to give us assignments where the questions asked about stuff that was not in the book. So he’d pull out 2, 3 other random books and tell us to figure it out. He single-handedly made me hate science that entire year.
I'm older Gen Z and half my mental health problems come from teachers.
The restorative justice only works if you presume that children will never lie and teachers never take sides. As a gen Z I think I should share my story about this. When I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, I had a fight with one of the bullies because he was harassing my friend. He stepped on my foot and it hurt me very badly. I started crying. And teacher came to diffuse the situation. As soon as he saw the teacher, he also started crying. She was a "cool" teacher who always believed in "listening to both sides of the story." I had hurt my foot but since I was a little bigger than the dunce who kicked me, she went and asked him what happened since in her mind, the small poor kid can't do any harm. This motherf*** lied that I pinched him. Luckily other kids pointed out that he stepped on me. But the teacher asked him why he stepped on me and he lied again that I punched him first. The teacher turned to me and asked why I punched him. I told her that I didn't punch him but him but was trying to get him to apologise to my friend who was getting bullied. She wasn't in a mood to listen to my explanation and started reprimanding me. It took other kids to point out that I didn't even touch the other guy. But she still didn't apologise. All the while the bully was smirking. I did punch him later that day outside the school.
Same thing happened to me. Had a spotless record, moved to a new school and a girl started bullying me for being gay. All I did was call her a bitch and walk away. Guess who got called into the principals office… I was the new kid trying to defend myself, and got ISS while the girl who bullied me got praise for ‘catching a bully’. I was so blindsided I couldn’t speak through my tears to defend myself to the principal, but my tears were all the proof he needed that I was the bully??? My parents were also homophobic, so I didn’t want him to tell my parents what happened either.
It completely ruined my faith in school, my teachers and administrators, and my peers. As a result my grades suffered horrifically because I felt like I couldn’t do anything to get bad students to leave me alone. It makes me feel sorry for all the Gen Alpha students who might be there to learn and have just given in to the bad students too.
I feel like some teachers or admins think kids are just tiny adults with the maturity and foresight to be totally honest and forthright. But they are children who are learning (or should be) that harming and manipulating others is unacceptable.
It also feels like a teacher who asks surface level questions and just tells you to shake hands and be friends is abdicating their duty to protect and prepare students. I’m sure sometimes they are told they have to or are busy and make a bad judgment call. But it is still an error and teaches bullies that lying works with that teacher.
My mom was a teacher and then an admin for many years, and she allowed zero nonsense. But she went above and beyond to REALLY help kids even if it meant they hated her momentarily. And guess what, in the end they loved her and still praise her several years after retirement.
Lol it was the kinda the same for my millennial butt in some ways, only it was the consolers. We knew to avoid them, bully and victim a like, because we both would've been dragged to "talk it out"
@elusivemayfly7534 Many adults are liars too. I'm sorry to tell you.
That’s when you catch him alone and politely inform him that that’s how school shooters are made, and he just bumped himself up on the list.
going back to college as an older adult was shocking. i was in my mid 20s and the incoming 18-19 yr olds were horrendous. they'd say horrible things about how mean and awful the professors were simply because work was required. a simple reading assignment of a chapter before next class would turn into ranting about how awful the professor was. i sat in front of these two girls who just tlaked the entire time saying things like "omg can you believe she is STILL talking" while the professor would be lecturing. it's wild.
To be fair the first 2 years of college is a lot of weeding out those that don’t belong there.
@badart3204 yea but every year is someone's "first two years"
i think a lot of that is just immaturity and feeling grown up due to being 18 but in actuality they were all children just a few months prior
@@rileylarch5417 i mean, even in elementary school we knew not to talk when the teacher was talking, much less roll our eyes and say "omg why is the b still speaking....."
wild, mygod..where was this? i never sawthis...but i went to school years ago
As a younger Gen Z, I saw it. I talked about it with my mom everyday. The behavior in schools is insane. I just had to take a different path, because it's so crazy being in that environment.
I thought it was just the area that I was in and...well..highschool, but nope
@@DylonsBBGorlPublic highschool is so bad in my area that more and more private schools are popping up. It's quite sad that public schools are getting worse and worse
Are you being kept as a slave?
My daughter was in advanced learning in HS, and they put their magnet school right in the middle of a school with a huge amount of gang violence. My daughter's best friend held a kid who was stabbed and bled to death within a week of their first year of HS. My daughter asked to be home schooled, and I couldn't say no.
dont listen to the johndiversey guy @@chaoswitch1974. he's either just sadistically trolling or severely misinformed. really hope you guys can get through this unfortunate situation.
I'm a younger Gen Z and in 4th grade I got punched in the face by a kid over asking for my turn on the swings. Not only did the principle do nothing, but during their conversation the kid somehow managed to convince the principle I was pinching him WHILE HE WAS ON A MOVING SWING. So instead of him even getting a call to his parents nothing happened and the principle talked with me IN FRONT OF THE KID while he smirked at me. My parents weren't even notified so ya restorative justice doesn't work. Just to clarify because lots of people seem confused. No I am not a 4th grader currently (the youngest Gen Z's are currently 7th graders) and I'm not dwelling on the issue it just serves as a good example of why restorative justice has issues considering the bully was never punished and the behavior didn't stop.
Wow I’m really sorry to hear that. That sounds pretty horrible
I’m sorry that happened, also schools always tell you not to hit back so we just gonna sit there and be punch?? 😑so many times I knew people who got punch and hit back also got into trouble, it’s ridiculous!
Similar thing happened to me except he punched me in the stomach after he called me a “monkey butt” and I responded with “no you are” (this was first grade.
You are more well articulate than 90% of American politicians. I have some hope if you're the future. 👍
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I remember when I graduated high school in 2015, even the students noticed that every year the kids got more rowdy, and every year the freshman were worse. My class was called the loudest class they'd ever had initially, but we lost that title as time went on. Interesting to see that it seems to have just progressed all the way to gen alpha now.
They should put decibel meters in cafeterias and show students the average noise level each year. Could be interesting for a sociology study too I suppose
god I'm dreading when gen alpha is gonna become freshman, because I'll have to deal with them ):
@@William0271 Ooh, this is actually a great idea. Definitely a good gauge of self-awareness in young children is learning to moderate their speech/laughter volume, so I'd be equally as interested to see if a similar concept is measurable in older kids.
@@Ad_Inferno they would just make it a game to get the highest number ngl
@@EllaMBV Lol I realized that's 100% true. You know what you reminded me of? In a couple of residential areas, my city installed meters so drivers could see how loud their vehicles were. They were hoping to raise awareness. Instead, said meters were quickly removed after dumb rednecks kept racing past the things trying to hit a new high score.
Older gen z. In junior year I was failing a lot of my classes HARD in part to the pandemic and some mental health stuff, but also just my own shit. Throughout it all I was given many second chances from both my parents and the school. Despite this, by the end of the year I remember thinking “please just let me fail.” I don’t think many realize how exhausting it is to have a school drag your educational corpse around when all you want is for them to bury it so you can crawl out before you lose an arm.
Having to retake those classes was the best thing my school did for me. I needed to feel failure so I could see what wasn’t working and fix that. That consequence helped motivate me when my broken brain couldn’t. Getting medicated also helped
Im in the same boat. In 8th grade in the later parts of the main pandemic i just could not to the online school and hardly did any work. Both because of mental health and because it just did not work for me. They still wanted me to try and catch up as much as possible to go to the next grade. My mom had to ask them to hold me back because we both knew not repeating would make things worse.
We need to detach morality from academic achievement. A student that has to repeat classes or be held back a year or two isn’t a failure of a person but rather hit a stumbling block or learns at a different pace. Feeling stupid or knowing they are falling behind more and more and not having a way out is what makes students give up and act out. I know I probably would have acted out too if I felt I was getting dragged and not treated on an individual basis. What’s the point of school if it just exists as a formality at this point to make everyone look good on paper? Lol.
what a load of bs everyone wants to pass atleast lol
Younger gen Z here, i can relate. They let me pass twice for some reason and now, on my final year, i struggle with so much stuff from all subjects. It's so exhausting, scary and humiliating.
Getting medicated did help but the damage was already done :(
You're a gifted writer. That last sentence of your first paragraph was stated so perfectly.
The removal of consequences for kids also meant a removal of consequences for all the adults in their lives. When kids can NEVER get expelled (we would have students setting fire to things, beating up peers so badly they were removed from school in ambulances etc., all of those kids stayed) and when kids NEVER get failed (even when they do literally nothing including coloring warm-ups, even when they show up in my 7th grade classroom and genuinely can't read for information or write a sentence) then governments don't have to worry about funding the interventions kids need, parents don't need to worry about finding their kid a new school, admin doesn't have to worry about the fact that the school promotes a classroom environment that makes actual learning impossible, and society at large doesn't have to face that we treat our society's children with utter neglect and contempt.
And yeah the chromebooks and phones were such a problem. So many of my students were completely addicted, would refuse to put down devices (and if a kid refuses, admin won't back you up, and the parent thinks its chill for them to be on tiktok constantly, no amount of "boundary setting" as a teacher works) and it was so sad. What was worse was the impulse was just to blame the kids. To tell them to focus more. As if having constant access to games and social media is at all appropriate for middle schoolers. Like obviously they haven't developed that self control yet, that's why we provide them with structures.
Seems like most people don't like kids. Including parents.
Why I did not become a teacher. They are not doing you a service though.
Exactly! Folks don’t even consider how much time these kids spend online and always have. Never before in history have people so young had access to so much information and so little oversight. It’s not the kids fault for being confused and irresponsible. That’s literally how we all are as kids. It’s the adults job to cherish and raise the future generation with love. These kids can see they’ve been left behind and they are very much little mice at play while the cats are all staring into their phones and worrying about how to pay the mortgage.
@DaughterofDiogenes what a weird analogy. You must be gen Z
The politicians love it. Stupid kids mean stupid adults and stupid adults get grifted, aren't capable of knowing they deserve better, can't tell when they're being lied to, and become good sheep for the system. Poor education and poor healthcare = workforce fodder.
There was a brand new teacher in my class in middle school (already up to a rough start), she was so sweet at first, she offered to help students out when they were confused, and she had a great love of teaching.
Fast forward 1 year later, she was disgruntled, looked sad most of the time, and she wasn’t patient with anyone anymore, even quiet students (like me) weren’t on her good side.
That was back in 2015, and it’s no surprise that it’s gotten a lot worse, students just aren’t being respectful, they aren’t being taught to respect others.
I had a similar experience!! Only my teacher wasn't new, it was in 4th grade I got a teacher who was about to retire and she was miserable.. she always cried and lashed out. My class was that bad but every little thing set her off😞
Oops I meant my class wasn't that bad
I promise it’s not the kids. Students have literally always hated school and have always been a complete pain in the ass. It’s the admin and bureaucracy that ties your hands so there is literally nothing you can do for or about problem students. There are no consequences whatsoever for kids or parents. Under those conditions you can’t expect the kids to just do what they are supposed to do. Kids no longer believe the lie that education is the only way to achieve success in life. They can see it’s not true and since every video online is about how the world is dying and we have no future there’s nothing to work toward. We are all becoming Nihilistic as hell. It’s all trickling down. Too much negative media all day every day. I refuse to allow the news, social media or any of that stuff in my house and my kids are some of the best behaved and well rounded kids anyone has met. Even with them both being AuDHD as well as myself, they still outperform and out behave most kids. You cannot give the kids access to the world of knowledge when they lack the wisdom to understand. You cannot steep the kids in negative energy and a comparison culture and expect well rounded thoughtful people to grow from dry, leached empty life.
i had the same exact thing happen to one of my teachers in 2019. first year working at the school, sweetest lady in the staff. She left the next year and moved down to the elementary school because she couldnt take the abuse. still pissed about it because she was one of my favorite teachers.
As someone who was a quiet, kind kid, I always felt teachers hostility towards me until they realized a little ways into the year that I wasn't like the rest of my grade. This calmed down later in Highschool when the rest of my grade level matured.
im at 5:44 and this "fun teacher" was my nightmare (im gen z). There was so many kids who complained that school wasn't fun, most of my teachers would say "suck it up, life isnt fun" BUT there were those few teachers who tried making everything fun. In a computer class I took, our FINAL was creating a rap and rapping in front of the class while being recorded. that was her idea of "fun". half the kids ended up failing bc we refused doing it. this was my senior year.
Always that "rap" method to "bond" with the students lmao.. I hate my colleagues sometimes.
I had a teacher do something similar, but I dropped her class because no matter how many times I told her I could not do a singing project because of my disability she would not listen. Some teachers are really good at creating fun projects, but there has to be balance and you have to listen to the students
Wait what kid of disability?
@@alexv3372 are you responding to me or the original comment?
@@chaosdisembodied5483 your comment of course
After graduating high school, I was bulimic, had constant panic attacks and only went to school 3x a week, because I had a shitty home life at the time and the teachers opted to make fun of it and "be the cool teacher" rather than actually helping me get some sort of guidance in my life.
I graduated high school with a middle school level of reading and mathematics and it took me 3 to 4 years of prep to actually get a decent understanding of high school subjects and I actually got accepted into med school, because I didn't have so many shitty people around me pulling me down.
School can make and break people.
Yikes I hope you feel better. During 11th grade we had a Spanish teacher who would ask for a booklet with all the subjects that we learned throughout the semester that included the short stories, novels , plays and essay that we didn’t know about for 2 months
Half of the time I was trying to finish other assignments and then the Spanish assignments came up and now I have to do them
The teacher was hell. She would joke about how this whole class would fell, would be disappointed if we failed our tests (which was.. concerning considering it happened way too many times) would get mad if we showed up to class with a recap of a novel ( I had way too many of those because half of the time I didn’t understand the novel I was reading ) and one time I was trying to do some class work but kept getting DISTRACTED because some TEACHER wouldn’t stop talking to the students when the students should shut UP and Do THEIR FUCKING HOMEWORK!
I’m so sorry about you though hope you get better ❤️🩹
My mother recently became an art teacher and not only are the students stressing her to tears, but the she got in trouble for not letting misbehaving students participate in the art, and also just for regular school discipline - I'm talking pulling students to the hallway to talk with them and making kids sit in time out. She got told she has to ONLY give out rewards to kids, and never to actually discipline them, and to send misbehaving kids to the office. Apparently she can't even take art supplies away from kids when they're breaking them and misusing them. I feel awful for her, especially since she started teaching out of love for kids and art.
She should just quit.
If you cannot even send them out of the classroom for being disruptive / aggressive / destructive, they've have taken the sole leverage of control.
That is so sad! I'm sorry for your mother. 😢
@@rey_nemaattori It's not being allowed to do your job
If you can only give rewards, I see only one option that is the most unhinged and unexpected strategy : rewarding bad behavior. The idea is to use the fact that rewards actually reduce motivation (once you stop giving the rewards), but you'd need otherworldly stress handling for such a move, also you need to explain the move to the well behaved kids (if any).
Man that's rough. Art teachers had it the worst 25 years ago. It was always the stress release class, and I say that as someone who loves are and wanted to do the assignments.
There is also the fact that parents can't actually parent thier kids because they're too busy working. It's basically a requirement for both parents to work, which means they are all worked out. I've seen this with my cousin where my aunt just gives in because she is tired from work. Kids are a full time job, but kids don't pay. Then it's put on the people who actually get paid for dealing with kids, but there are at least 30 kids, all are from slightly different backgrounds. I, being autistic and ADHD, needed different help than a kid who's just ADHD, or a kid who doesn't have either. And even then, there are other factors like siblings, likes and dislikes, and their own identities. There is no possible way to be there for all 20-30 kids while also teaching. Basically, we should pay parents, but that's scary socialism. So we live in a world that actively punishes parents and then people complain birthrates are going down.
I think it was probably better when one parent did household chores and another worked for the income. What I don't agree with is that standard being forced on women. If both parents chose to work then they should be able to but I don't think it is good that both are required to work to afford to live comfortably.
I think this aspect is ignored way more than it should.
@@commentbot9510unfortunately the cost of living overall is sky high these days so even if you’re a woman (or a man for that matter) who did want that life it may not be economically feasible. But yes it did seem as though having some specialization of labor did have its benefits when it was more widespread. This is coming from a 20 year old gen z female who was raised in a more traditional family environment.
I am a millennial SAHM, we made this choice because a/ men earn more (sad but true) b/ I wanted to breastfeed c/ I was the more competent to care about a baby 24/7 (not saying men can’t do it as well).
Being at home meant we had to limit expenses drastically, we sacrificed holidays abroad in hotels or airbnbs, going out to restaurants and bars, I buy a lot of second hand items, I spend more time budgeting groceries and looking for discounts and coupons, and we wait for appliances and devices to be broken to replace them.
We both think all those sacrifices were worth it when we see how well our kid is doing !
There are no kids that don't have neuro divergent something.
I was a janitor at the local high school for a while and holy shit you're so right when you say that there are no consequences. We had to lock all but 1 set of bathrooms and have a teacher outside to make sure they didn't tear it up MORE because it was so vandalized, so torn up (urinal dividers ripped off walls, the walls to stalls ripped off of some even), that they said "enough is enough, we're just locking it up"
My school started doing this too after the pandemic. During the devious lick thing, a teacher had to be outside every single bathroom in the school. So sad...
@@sarahd3422 I agree Devious Lick Trend happend at my local highschool too and it got so bad that if you want to go to the bathroom you would have to scan a QR code inorder to go to the bathroom's. I did that everytime because due to the Devious Lick Trend after the Pandemic when school's reopened again they celebrated by destroying the bathroom's like there's no tommorow because school was back in session again and they thought destroying the bathroom's were a good idea. So sad and this was during the 2021 to 2022 school year during my Junior Year of highschool.
The soap dispensers had to be locked for a while because students stole them, and during a play I was in the bathrooms had to be monitored because students would kick the doors open and take others clothes. It's so infuriating, that most of the consequences don't go to the students but rather the janitors and teachers
As a person who is unfortunately part of gen Alpha I’m considering asking my parents to let me go into homeschooling just because of how bad the kid behavior at my school is. I love all my teachers to death because they’re so nice if you’re just nice back. I feel so bad for one of my teachers because it’s her first year teaching, and the students are just giving her a mental breakdown every single day. I can feel it that she’s gonna quit before the school year even ends. And if she did, I wouldn’t blame her.
Tiny add: One, thank you to all that have shared there experiences with online learning, and with in person learning, I’m showing them to my parents and using them to help guide my decision.
(Two, I replyed to a comment, but for some reason for me it doesn’t show my reply so I’m just going to put it here)
Im not 100% sure but I did look it up on google and it says that gen alpha is from 2010 to now so since I was born in that time range that would qualify me as a Gen Alpha but I did think that I was Gen z for the longest time.
I am a Gen Zer and I ended up going to online school because the environment was just so awful due to other students behaviors. It made my education so much easier
You seem like one of the good ones, don't get corrupted
As a current college student, and a Millenial. I get so sick of people blaming tablets and school computers for the kids misbehaviors, whenever it is very clear that the reasoning behind their misbehavior is more personal and at home. I feel like I have done better in college thanks to assignments being mostly online and done by computer than I have in grade school or high school where my resources that could potentially help were very limited. I feel that this is a reason why college is much easier compared to my high school and grade school years, but I was often hesitant on going because I was told by my peers college would be more difficult. The pandemic made me bored enough to consider going, and along with this, I come to realize how much easier college actually was thanks to my school mostly having our professors get us to do assignments online. I always preferred one on one. In grade school, and high school, I remember not doing any of my class work during class, but instead took it home to do it. I remember parents being deterred from homeschool because they were worried their kids wouldn't take their education seriously. I was homeschooled at one point too, and I felt I got better quality education and easier time learning that way. A traditional classroom setting just creates too much anxiety for me. I feel like its evident that devices have absolutely nothing to do with a child's behavior. I am glad you shared your story and brought some light into the situation.
You're Gen Alpha? I thought Gen Alpha were kids 10 and under. (Or 5 & under?) Gen Z is age 11 - 20, Millennials were born btwn 1981-1999, Gen X were born btwn 1965-1979, Boomer born btwn 1946-1964
@@adawnhowell9256 I’m not 100% sure but I’m pretty sure that gen z is from 2012 to 1997 (looked up on google) so by that I would be one of the oldest members of gen alpha though I did also think that I was gen z for a long time
I used to get so much second-hand stress at school from watching teachers be stressed. I still _hate_ the experience of watching people struggle to get the attention of a room or coordinate groups of people. It wasn't that I was a teachers pet, I didn't really care whether teachers particularly liked me, there was just something about watching teachers be visibly distressed that got to me. (Although, the ones that didn't care were bad too, because then I didn't tend to get anything done).
That’s called empathy. You are someone who is attentive to those around you and want to alleviate suffering of others. A lot of ppl sadly are unaware of how their behaviors affect those around them and don’t care to be aware either. Ow. 😢
For the teachers who didn’t care: sometimes there comes to a point where the majority of the class doesn’t care, that the teacher realizes “it doesn’t matter; if they don’t care, why should I stress myself?”
Hands down the most coherent generation Alpha rant I have heard to date. With this quality of commentary you might get to change careers to full time UA-camr before too long.
I agree. A lot of them have been pretty samey.
@@egg_bun_This. Some commentary videos from other former teachers gives a new perspective but the bandwagon commentators end up devolving into “tiktok, the internet and the pandemic are ruining gen alpha!” When it’s so much more complicated than that.
Probably one of the only videos I've seen which actually adds anything of substance to the topic.
Except she's a high school teacher who hasn't actually taught Gen Alpha kids.
@@sleekoduck She can at least speak from her experiences for why she saw this coming. She's seen the consequences of some of the practices she's discussed on Gen Z. Gen Alpha didn't turn out like this overnight or through the pandemic nor is it an isolated generational issue. Many factors have been leading up to this.
I dropped out in like 10th grade due to my rapidly declining mental health, that was caused by school, my parents. A lot of things, I ended up just learning everything by studying on my own, and when I went to try and get a high school diploma equivalent at a place, it turns out throughout the like dozen tests they did I was one of the most educated people there. And none of that I learned in a school, schools are failing harder and harder than ever before due to our stagnation due to wanting profit above all else.
I was also a dropout and school did more to stunt my learning than anything else in life. Thank god I left when I did because staying longer might have truly killed my lifelong passion for learning before it ever really got a chance to take off.
Too bad people are indoctrinated and too attached to our current education system. People have criticized the system for several years, because it demotivates kids towards actual learning. We weren't even allowed to think outside the box that we were given.
School was never really meant to actually teach people. It was meant to create workers. The whole reason why education is failing is because the system is crumbling. Students are starting to realize you can learn much more outside of school and that the stuff we learn at school isn't exactly quite helpful.
No but that exact thing happened to me - failed 10th grade because of mental health and finally said I'll just do it myself. I went in for all four tests for the GED at once just to see how bad off I was and I passed 3 of the 4 on the first go. School was honestly quite useless for me.
let me tell you girl your audio is incredible! so many small UA-camrs don't pay attention to these things but your video felt just as professional as creators with 100k+ subscribers. you're doing something right! and people are noticing! keep it up!
I agree with this... I thought maybe I'd watch a minute or two because I usually like to just get a glimpse of the creators perspective but I got hooked into watching the whole thing... So this creator should continue pursuing uploads as I believe they have a captivating raw talent with great potential...
Yes, the frequency response is great, but she should still use a pop filter for plosives, and a mic stand ffs
I tried to be a teacher and had a similar experience. Right down to drinking way too much. "Its just normal to cry in your car every day for the first year" is just an accepted rite of passage among the profession, at least where i was. It shows something's fuckin wrong.
I appreciate how thoughtful your analysis of the situation is. Its way too easy and common to just bash "kids these days". Your hopeful perception and levity is something sooo many highly educated, talented teachers bring to the classroom but the environment is such a disaster, way too many people with those qualities justifiably leave.
I really hope things work out ok for gen Alpha. Maybe at least their feral energy will finally topple our systemic tormentors and a brave new order can rise from ashes of their frendzied fire.
You are way too hopeful for Gen alpha when all the media they consume is both controlled by the systematic tormentors and designed to tell Gen alpha what to think.
The problem with your ending paragraph is that these kids are too lazy to do worksheets, let alone “topple a government.”
I love your analogy but this is real life not dark souls, with all due respect. The monied groups in control can buy a ton of bells and whistles to distract, then the old faithful divide and conquer. It would take a hard fall off of the older generation for that to really happen I feel. But that's getting far darker than I mean to be. Hell I could be dead wrong with all this. Lol understanding generational struggles on a macro level is very complex.
What do need in order to restore society? God maybe. Standing on your truth or some basic self reflection.
@@gbd-oq1rz religion solves nothing, nor the supposed "restoration" of whatever romanticized idea of a past that never existed except in your head - this is a collective problem that demand the adults to accept the fact that this is something THEY made it, and must NOT complain about the results.
I was a 17 year teacher, a very popular one. I rarely showed movies, end of term or in short segments as a part of an actual lesson concept.
Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm.
The classroom has a pack mentality, it needs a leader.
Things that happened in other classes that never happened in mine because of my clearly stated behavioural expectations.
You'd get along with my mom, I think.
yes, 12 years in the room and similar experiences.
The thing that really got me to quit was the attitude of both my education facility, as well as the parents. Lousy kids I can deal with. What I couldn't ethically stand was listening to my boss berating me for not giving in to the bullshit both students and parents would give. Not only that but my boss despised the fact that she didn't intimidate me like she did everyone else. I'm no hard ass, but I don't tolerate disrespect in my class, and no teacher ever should. Never mishandled a single interaction with a parent or student. Most of the staff loved me. But my boss kept hiring these young teachers in their 20s that had zero life experience, and were also a massive addition to the Gen Z attitude problem. After teaching for 12 years, I can tell you that at least half the parents I met should definitely have not reproduced. Teachers are quitting because we're tired of a thankless job that deteriorates your sanity. I'm much happier in my new profession now, and making 3 times as much.
When you described Restorative Justice, the first thought in my head was, "Who has time for that?" Like you said, it looks nice on paper, but it takes time away from teaching if this is how every disciplinary issue is approached. I think it's a good method for repeat offenders, but some kids just need that first dose of discipline, and then they get the message and behave better.
My partner and I are social media free (I do an occasional UA-cam comment) and our heads are much clearer and chill compared to when we were active on Facebook and Tiktok. We are already getting some pushback on this, but we have decided not to allow our daughter to use social media until she is maybe 15. 16? We can't decide an appropriate age yet, but it's no time soon. We both hate social media, it reeks havoc on your self-esteem and mental health and I just don't think it's good for a child's hands, considering a lot of adults can't even handle it.
But example-
My daughter is in first grade and she isn't allowed to watch kids UA-cam anymore- she was really sassy/lil ms. Attitude, loud, and was like narrating her every move because she was copying the big personalities of all of the characters/streamers on UA-cam! We tried to teach her about the attitude and being sassy and nip that in the bud, but like the nuances and everything.... she just didn't get it. So we yanked kids YT.
Now she watches PBS kids and she's doing well 😂😅
It's almost eerie how you can so easily tell the difference between a PBS Kids child and a UA-cam Kids child nowadays. Like the difference is almost striking.
God, my siblings sate the exact same way - sassy, attitude, and incessantly narrate everything they do. Only difference being that instead of YT kids, it's just the normal YT. I've considered seeing if there was a way to block it entirely lmao
@@salemcrow5078
"ncessantly narrate everything they do"
Like a diary??
@@salemcrow5078download more videos that are good like creative cartoons and monnoter them
@@DrawciaGleam02 no, like a vlog. if it was a diary it'd be fine
I was one of those kids in 11th grade chemistry that couldn’t do multiplication. I understand how multiplication and division works but I can’t do it in my head. I need a calculator. I can literally do advanced calculus, as long as I know the formula I can do the math. BUT I MUST HAVE A CALCULATOR! It makes my life really hard. Teachers always assume I don’t understand how multiplication or division work tho and then try and explain it to me and that frustrates me even more because I DO KNOW HOW IT WORKS! I think I just have dyscalcula or something. I literally did tutoring with my the head of mathematics at my university and I STILL can’t divide or multiply without a calculator
Oh I totally get that!! And honestly good on you for using a tool and still grasping the important concepts when you have dyscalculia!
wAIT IM NOT THE ONLY ONE??? ive literally struggled with multiplication since we started learning it in 3rd grade and i still don't know the full multiplication table at almost 24 years old 😭
don't worry haha, i also can't do mental math and have a job in stem just fine. i use my calculator a lot
Same I understand how multiplication and division works but actually doing it is a whole different story.
Lol if your using a calculator your not actually doing the math though
Call me a communist but as someone who grew up in a hispanic household, surrounded by looks of people and authority figures, my parents didn’t just raise me. I think the biggest issue is that no people hate when other people give their opinions on children or when they criticize something saying it is not right when you are not in their situation. I feel like teaching kids to listen to other people besides their parents is important. Children spend almost 70% of their time in school until around the age of 13 where it begins to decrease. Teachers are put in an almost parenting position and they should be treated with the same respect you do your parents. You probably see your teachers more than your parents sometimes!! I think more respect needs to given to teachers and parenting should be a tribe not 2 people dictating over a persons complete world, views, thoughts, etc.. It is important to expose children to different ideas and thoughts so they learn how to form their own. Being put with something that always tells you how to think makes them lose the ability to think for themselves. Of course this is a very situational concern but generally I think people need to let kids be kids without controlling their every move WHILE being able to set boundaries and show respect/appreciation when due.
My son is on the spectrum as well as having ADHD and ODD (all official diagnoses from medical professionals). We have tried to keep or reintroduce him into public school. We even looked at private schools. The private schools turned us down (despite our research being that private schools are better equipped than public schools). And because of his terrible experiences in a public school system without any special needs programs at the regular elementary school level, he's afraid of public school. On top of that, where we live is apparently notorious for having a broken public school system. We didn't know that when we first moved here. I don't blame parents or kids for this. I blame politicians that deliberately meddle in the public school system to keep it from evolving to actually meet the specific needs of this current generation
So, to summarize, parents and teachers need to stop being the kids friends. 100% agree
Always. Friends can't make u follow the rules. Parents and teachers can. As a kid, you usually can't be convinced to follow the rules, or at least there's a lot that can't be, so you just need to be forced to follow them until you do it
Parents and teachers need to be A positive authority figure. Someone who is In control, but someone can trust And be vulnerable around.
Being a student's friend isn't necessarily a bad thing, The problem is that Teachers have absolutely no authority Over anything. They can't control their students, they can't control their curriculum, They can't control their workload. They are completely at the mercy of Bureaucratic elements so far removed from the system that They are incapable Of understanding or reacting appropriately to the situation at hand.
@@BlitzkriegOmegafriends are not authority figures, they are friends. Teachers and parents can’t be both
When she was describing it it reminded me of the cool mom archetype . When people are trying so hard to be friends when really they need to focus on their responsibilities.
100 percent
i’m a 2008 kid and oh my god kids my age are so horrible. i had to switch to online school for the past couple years because after the pandemic, other kids started having absolutely no human decency or kindness or compassion whatsoever. idk if it’s a teenager thing or a gen z thing but they would trigger my sensory issues on purpose and any accommodations the school gave me did nothing to help. i was having panic attacks and meltdowns daily and i was skipping school for weeks on end because i couldn’t force myself to go back into that environment. its tragic, and i’m so scared for others’ education and my own. i’m so sorry to any teachers having to deal with these bullies, i know teachers are trying their best to help and none of them deserve to suffer like this.
🫡 good luck out there, only 2 more years
You are indeed a zoomer fetus
I feel you🫂
Tbh. teenagers are often awful, especially at middle school age (13-16 yo). I was bullied myself, for stuff I didn't have much control over. Destroyed my self-confidence to the level I was scared to talk to anyone aside from my closest family. Took me 3 or 4 years to be able to talk to a cashier in a grocery store without having a near panic attack. Fortunately, it passes with time, some therapy and the realization that nobody f**king cares at the end of the day. xD
@@najpotenicewolf934I tough it out by ignoring all the kids by reading books. (Bless that one kid)
My mother idealizes the teaching profession because 4 people in my family became teachers, so she pressured me to do it for 15 years. I’m a GenX’er and didn’t want to go BACK to a school as a workplace and deal with my generation as parents when I was bullied throughout school by so many people. I couldn’t relate to most of my own generation when I was in school and have trouble relating to most even now (almost all of my friends are Millennials).
Plus I didn’t want to work with kids or teenagers because I have no air of authority, I don’t deal well with stress, noise or chaos and they would have walked all over me. When I told my teachers in school in the late 80s that I was thinking about becoming a teacher, they ALL advised me against it. I was told everything ranging from “It’s a thankless, stressful job” to, “The profession is changing, I don’t recommend it.”
My mother sees me as kind of the family failure for not becoming a teacher, but I have no regrets for not pursuing a career path I wasn’t suited for.
Bruh the fact that your mother was able to steer or basically manipulate and control you into taking a job she wanted you to do, and saw how spineless you are (no offence) and yet still though having a person who cant stand up for themselves AT ALL becoming A TEACHER is a good thing... its like a great scipt for a comedic drama somewhere in there 💀💀💀
Came here to add, based on experience with relatives, that many kids who were students during the pandemic saw a decline bc their parents were never involved in their education or weren't that educated themselves. My cousin was in 7th grade when the pandemic hit and her mom never got involved with the zoom classes, never checked her homework, never talked with teachers, and the teachers said they never saw her face during mettings on the 2 years of distance learning. They just passed her for the sake of it and when they came back, she was gonna be a 9th grader who didn't know how to multiply, divide, or read sentences correctly. Her mom just said "OH THAT LITTLE SHIT NEVER DID ANYTHING AND I HAD NO IDEA" and that was it
Oppositely, I was also in seventh grade, but I was abused by the parent who had physical custody at the time because I stopped attending virtual meetings and only submitted homework and online tests. We also had to leave school two weeks early, so all the projects, homework, notes, etc. increased and wouldn’t stop coming. I ended up pulling multiple all-nighters to get around 70% overall.
I do see the benefits of being sort off hands-off with your kid as it makes themselves responsible for their own work, but, online school made it easy for kids to get distracted.
I'm so glad you brought up how big a distraction the school-issued iPads and computers are. I work at a tutoring center so I see a lot of students of all age groups from a variety of schools in my area and all their online homework is gamefied and they still won't do it in favor of playing whatever mindless games aren't blocked on their devices. Another thing I noticed is that for the most part, they're not actually learning how to use technology the way they might need to use it in a workplace. Most of them can't type, and they assume the grammar checker does a lot more than it actually does. Some of them can't figure out basic Word or Google docs functions. But they all know how to add strange and distracting filters on a zoom call.
My teacher had to tell my class not to use grammarly on an essay or it would get tagged as AI, and another classmate bragged about how she uses chatgpt to write essays. I have no hope
this reminds me of that episode on the Simpsons where Lisa and Bart go to a new school and it was secretly training them to become delivery drivers.
"A healthy amount of shame." Truer words have never been spoken.
"this generation is doomed" said my grandma about my mom. Same thing her mom told about her, same thing I will say about my kids and same thing they will say about their kids.
Update: in case if someone doesn't get my point - the reason why kids are dumb is their parents being dumb. If you think your kids are idiots, just look at yourself in the mirror and you'll get the solution to your questions.
That attitude is part of the problem
You called yourself stupid which is pretty funny. Also the opinions of terrible parents don't mean anything when you consider the systems that cause this issue. It isn't just one parent dumb have baby baby dumb.
@@gordonfreeman7187 don't be an idiot. Parents are the first thing that kids going to copy and try to look like. As George Carlin once said: "Kids started smoking not because a camel in sunglasses told them to, no. They did it for the same reason treir parents did."
The point is that you need to start from yourself if you don't want your kids to be dumb. Show your how to be smart and intelligent person like you are and there you have it.
ok but gen alpha is very different lmao. you forget that those previous generations didn’t have access to brain-altering technology and information from the moment they could crawl
@@coolchameleon21 yes they did. They had a TV. Same shit applies here. Modern kids are dumb because their parents don't care about them. Instead of teaching their kids properly, parents would rather give them the phone with YTkids playing. And thanks to the stupidity of parents of Gen Z & alpha we have Elsagate content in the first place.
i’m a younger gen z kid, (graduating hs this year), and my mom is a teacher. i have worked with gen alpha kids before. i have seen so many of the issues they have, especially behavioural. my momma and i have talked about the issues with these kids AND their parents. and a lot of issues come down to many of your points, lack of proper support for teachers, low pay, and the internet. i have grown up (unfortunately) using the internet. it has most DEFINITELY affected my life in negative ways. the fact that parents are allowing their kids access to the internet at such a young age is so damaging to them. we ALL know the sheer amount of crap that is littered ALL over the internet, and my gen, we honestly have been very much so traumatised because of some of that stuff. i feel for so many teachers and the bs that they REGULARLY deal with.
The school system completely and utterly failed me and it's taken me years recover from the trauma and awful view I have of other people ingrained in me from being in such a lowly sadistic social environment. Almost everything I know comes from the internet lol
This. Everyone talks about Gen Z loneliness being caused by the pandemic, social media and whatnot. The flip side to this are kids who had always been lonely regardless of social media because of the school system that never cared about students and a cutthroat social scene. Everyone says “finding community will cure your loneliness!” But what if most people you find in your environment aren’t people who are good for you?
@@Sofiaode18Exactly, the HUMAN aspect of it all is intentionally disregarded so mental instability in the population can fester. We're seeing the end results of the governments intentional tampering with the peoples minds over the decades
@@Sofiaode18 Find a different environment.
@@rey_nemaattori Only possible if you live in a city or bigger town. Where I grew up there was only one high school. My graduating class was about 150 people. There weren't a lot of options.
That’s why it’s laughable to me when people say homeschooling is bad because kids need school to “learn how to socialize”.
I left public school with zero social skills, social anxiety and fear of talking in front of people due to constant bullying and being made fun of. I wish I could have just learned at home instead of being forever traumatized.
I was a teacher assistant in high school a year ago and my mentor had me put 70s on failing grades while filling the grade book. It wasn't just curving grades it was full on from 30s to 70s bc her higher up would get after the teachers if their kids had failing grades, even if they had missing assignments. Also, this was KINDER and parents wouldn't bother to help them do the hw
Oh yeah. Unfortunately this is a common story in the education system, and I’ve also experienced pressure from admin to give students passing grades even when they’re not doing the bare minimum
Thank you for adding to the conversation of Gen Alpha situation. This is as real as it's going to get. Yes, kids are misbehaving so bad but it's not even their own fault. These behaviors don't pop up from thin air. It's everyone else (teachers, staff at the school, parents) enabling them to continue because they never learned right from wrong. I walked out mid-day yesterday (during my lunch period) as a substitute for an art teacher and decided to not return because I witnessed yet another class in a row treating me, the other staff in the classroom, and their peers around them like shit and as if they were in a zoo. Several students screaming at the top of their lungs, pushing the tables and chairs of the art room by thrusting their lower halves against it (what is up with little kids acting so sexual at an early age?!). When the admins came in and said they are being too loud, the kids would celebrate by saying 'whoo! another record!!' It was horrendous and disturbing. I did NOT have the capacity to calm myself down after what I went through with that class and somehow they expected me to continue subbing for the remaining grades of the day. I refuse to risk my mental and physical well-being anymore when other jobs can pay me the same or more in a more supported, comfortable environment. I did not want 2nd and 1st graders seeing me breathe heavily and break down crying just because of an earlier class that made me feel worthless.
Gen Alpha are drug addicts and it is social media applications which are designed to be addictive. That is what happened 8 year old traumatized drug addicts.
I’m sorry you had to deal with that!
Loved the video. I have ADHD, and was a student starting out in '89 in education. Needless to say, Ireland's education system in the 80s and 90s wasn't great for someone undiagnosed. I was constantly put into remedial classes for being disruptive or "slow". Didn't stop me dragging myself up and getting a 1st Class Honors and Masters in Engineering.
It's ill-equiped schools, missed diagnosis, or checked out parents and teachers that can negatively affect a childs educational outlook.
Imo as a current high school student the “hardass” teachers who are “strict” just have the most basic guidelines, but they will happily make exceptions if you have a legitimate reason. For example, I have a heart condition and wear a monitor that connects to my phone to monitor my heart rate, and instead of turning in my phone at the beginning of class I get to keep mine in my backpack 🤷♀️
To be fair. They legally can’t take it from you according to the ADA.
From my experience those teachers also were very diligent about IEP’s and such. Always made sure that if a student got extra time or something, on a test that they would have it.
That's just being fair
I am currently doing a language degree as I wanted to be a teacher. I’m not pursuing this job anymore due to the consistency of feedback from teachers highlighting the same points. You’d think as a parent you’d get on board with the teacher being adults alike but it’s shocking to see how much that isn’t the case.
Me too, switch the heck out of education baby!
You could come to Italy and teach, they are always looking for native English speakers …if you know Italian (since you’re a language student) it would be very helpful.
There are schools that teach exclusively in English too (usually private)
The schools here are pretty strict, the students may strike on occasion, but you don’t hear about fights, disrespect, weapons, etc. The teachers are the gods of the classroom.
Check out the universities here, they accept foreign students and the prices are AMAZING. I think the most expensive university is 5k a year… you can get a visa for studying abroad
Germany is similar and always looking for talent, and very receptive to English speakers. A few years back they offered stipends to English students (not sure about now)
Anyway, just fyi… life in Italy is pretty fantastic overall. I’ve been here a decade and will never live in the states again if I don’t have too
Edit: idk about rent in every area, but where I live (Udine) the average rent is about 550. You don’t make as much here as a teacher, but expenses are lower too, and you can tutor for around 15 per hour if you’d like. Especially in languages and the maths.
For example: We own a rental house near the center (downtown) of Udine and rent it for 430. It’s a 1/1 with a garden and within walking/biking distance of everything in the city, which is around 350k people. I’m telling you, life is good here, but adjust the **usual “American attitude” because it’s really off-putting to locals. If you appreciate them, they will adore you
**complaining, bitching, bratty entitled attitude. Once you’ve been here awhile, you’ll see it in new Americans and it’s pretty gross. We do act terribly in general, it’s embarrassing
I tried to get a history degree so I can be a political scientist teacher. Once I learned even more about the treatment of teacher, no thank you.
Back in my day, parents would generally side with teachers. Nowadays, parents will always side with their children. We all need to start normalizing consequences again.
I'm just going to throw this story into the void.
When I was in high school, this kid was being a jerk to me all the time. I just ignored it, didn't really bother me much since I'd experienced a lot worse. He never physically hurt me or anything and I didn't know anything about him so I figured, if it made him feel better then, what the hell, go for it. But eventually he started bullying one of my friends who was not okay with it and that's when I knew I needed to do something. One day he looked me straight in the eyes and lit a lighter near me (probably as a joke or just to show off or something, wasn't really threatening in any way). I used that to fabricate a story to the guidance councilor that he threatened me with a lighter, said he'd burn me alive how scared for my life I was. My home life wasn't exactly great and I had a lot to cry about but would refuse to do so. I tapped into that while telling this story because I knew that when a kid cries, adults tended to be more empathetic and believing. The faculty knew me as the good quiet kid who's mom was on welfare and based on past events in my life, I also knew adults talked and that talk would often lead to trouble so I knew that this story would get around and they'd have to figure out what to do. They gave that kid like a month of detention, forced him to write an apology letter and even gave me the option to get the police involved. This kid was terrified of the consequences, I could feel it in his letter. I decided not to take it any further and really didn't expect it to go that far. But that kid stopped being a bully afterwards and actually started being really nice to people. He avoided me and anyone associated with me but, I caught him actually standing up to other bullies once which was not a change I expected at all. This is a really specific set of circumstances but it stuck with me nearly 20 years later. Kids need to know that actions have consequences and those consequences may be far worse than the action so they think before they act. Trauma isn't always negative, sometimes it can help you learn and grow. All that being said, I haven't interacted with any children since I was a child and I used to go to school with an actual machete in my pants. My reasoning at the time being "If I can go to school with a machete and no one even raised an eyebrow, I can't imagine what someone that actually means to do harm could have with them so I best keep bringing it." So what do I know really.
This is a huge fucking problem that shit-ass Millennial parents refuse to admit or engage with. All these coping Millennial parents going "omg woe is me! I have to work AND parent a kid I CHOSE to have! It's so HARD!!!" in the comments? Not a single peep about this shit lol.
Idk college has gotten super easy. When I went back to college after Covid, the curriculum was soo dumbed down that I was able to pass all my classes without studying or showing up to class. When Gen Alpha gets to college, they will probably have to deal with this as well.
Too easy. My college decided to get rid of the genetics class as a requirement for the biology major. How unhinged is that??
@@Window4503no way. I may not be a biology major student (I am planning to study biochemistry), but isn't genetics THE PILLAR OF MODEN BIOLOGY? Everything from reproduction, all the way to gene engineering.
As a former teacher- I also agree! I saw this with Gen z to a scary degree and the lack of support for actual learning and education led me to leave the field. I’m not considered “to strict” on my own child but in reality I’m doing the same things that were done for me
Im in the older half of the gen z and i saw that cming when i was in school. We were slightly more misbehaved than those or 2 years older but what i see with people like 5 years youngers - its a hell. My cousin jumped out of a window in my school (not to hurt himself but to flex in front of his classmates), his classmaed bruned down the curtain and other stuff and my teacher said herfelf that we were the last ones to co-operate and be respectful. The technology literally destrys our brains which im discovering in depth in my psychology degree
@@leena75not only that but due to NCLB many of you (not all of course) are extremely cognitively behind. You’ve been forced in a system that catered to underperforming students instead of have systems for lower and higher performers. You guys honestly fell through and it truly breaks my heart
@@irmooflorien5399Nowadays, people (to be exact, whoever decides stuff) seem to not consider using "if" in policies.
@@irmooflorien5399in the better school districts we still had honors and AP which helps a lot not be slowed down by the dumbest kids with the shittiest parents. I’m older Gen Z but the only non AP class I took in HS showed me how much the standard education is just not an education. I can’t even imagine how bad it is now that TikTok exists
Some teachers definitely don’t help. I gave up on helping my high school aged sister because she just won’t listen and I understand why. Her teacher would just give her A’s no matter what. It makes me worried for when she’s off to college…
Assigning unearned grades is another pressure teachers have from their higher ups. There's an ex teacher on UA-cam who spoke about his digital grade book being altered without his permission, to give the student all As, and he was able to track it down to the administration member who did it, and when he brought it up was dismissed. It's to that point
@@mrdad-zl9zlwhat’s the channel? Also having gone through the public schools in Chicago, I definitely know this to be true. There is a literal QUOTA for how many students you can fail.
Tbh, prepare for a steep learning curve. I was one of those Kids in Class that never really Had to study. I wasnt a Genius, but i could get decent-ish Grades without Putting in much effort.
Then i went to Uni and the First term my Grades took a complete nosedive. I Had to sit down and learn how to study. It wasnt pleasant, but i got there in the end 😂
@@annabeinglazy5580 Agreed I was that kid too, but I convinced myself to do AP which made me actually start putting in effort. at this point AP/Honors classes are the actual normal classes, and "normal" classes are basically palliative care for failing students. The worst thing you can do to a person is lie to their face and say they are doing a good job, when they are not. Their future employer won't give them that fantasy like school does.
When I was applying to colleges (20 years ago), I remember the guidance counselors saying that colleges were moving away from using the SATs to determine admissions, but in a world where everybody gets As, they may have to go back to that.
Oh wait, all these kids are gonna be UA-camrs and TikTokers. Well, that point's moot.
i feel really guilty about the way i acted in school as someone who graduated a year ago. But god i was miserable. I used to walk down the windowless hallways just staring at peoples shoes feeling such utter apathy and exhaustion at the thought of every possible type of shoe being somewhere in that building. Teachers at my school were awful and vindictive. Groups of boys who were coralled into ISS would be taken around the school by an aide and would literally surround people and bark at them. You have no idea how humiliating that feels to experience. Most of my teachers were subs, and many of them would use class time to go on political tirades. I think some teachers join the profession out of ego, and theyre the ones who stay because their needs are met so long as theres an audience. A lot of the kids were pulled so thin that they would play alon with their narcissism. I got put into a gifted program because i tested higher than 99% of my peers, and it would cause me to miss class. I tried explaining this and the teacher spoke over me saying "do not argue with me" in front of the whole class because he said there would be no extensions granted for the excessive absences. I was put into in school suspension for three days for having three tardies in a semester, which was outside of my control. School is legitimately like a prison. Its cold and desolate and it drags on every day. Maybe other students have had better experiences but to me these institutions are prisons to keep the youth from the public eye.
Agreed I knew people would would bark at me during my Senior year of highschool and it was awful. I graduated in 2023 and most of the people at that school were awful terrible people. I mostly had fake friends from that school and most of them were not nice. I only have 2 to maybe 3 real friends from highschool but everyone else was fake or disappeared from my life entirly. I do agree school's are prisons to keep the youth from the public eye.
Yeah, it’s a bummer for sure. It needs a huge institutional overhaul, but only where to start?
One thing that really screws my head, as someone who actively works in an education environment, is the way we assume that the only way to teach is to make learning a miserable task, and if not it’s not learning. We can’t seem to come to a middle where kids aren’t actively not learning but also not having major stress and being bored all the way. Kids are curious, young people are curious, they will literally ask question after question about a topic, they wish to learn. Our system kills their love of learning and curiosity through time.
@@Jabberwocky112yeah it’s scuffed. We need to figure out a method of learning that doesn’t cause lasting trauma.
My son has ADHD and PDA, and because of this, he has behavioral issues. His teacher and I communicate constantly and are working together to find a plan that works for him. I NEVER could imagine trying to excuse or even allow that negative behavior. His ADHD is an explanation for the behavior, not an excuse for it. He still faces repercussions at home for bad behavior at school. I could never in my life imagine being angry with the teacher for his behavior! I am soooooo thankful for how patient and understanding they have been with him and how much they've helped me with get him into a behavioral specialist faster! Teachers deserve all respect in the world! If you don't teach your children boundaries and also how to accept "NO" then you're failing as a parent.
I am the near the end of Gen z, (I'm going to graduate this year old) and I couldn't agree more with this statement. Your explanation on how teachers interact with kids is so accurate. Ever since the beginning of Middle School, I have watch my fellow students run on the tables, cuss out the teacher, act blatantly disrespectful and then they turn around and act like it's the teachers fault. I heavily believe that teachers go to out admins for help but they just give a slap on the wrist and move on. Its devastating to watch 9th graders come in and have little to no aspirations at all. They want to be a youtuber or a tik toker and that's it. Sure that's fun but like??? That's it? That's all you want to do. They don't realize how unstable this platform is and how is nearly impossible to get your content out there. I watch 15 year old's or younger vape and talk about doing party drugs. This is just a casual conversation in my art class and I feel so bad for my teacher because I watch students call her racist for punishing them because of their actions. I promise you it is not targeted, it's because you being a dipshit and not doing your work. Students openly talk about how they're failing all of their classes and don't know how to do basic algebra. Teachers say I'm above average and students say I'm the smartest kid in class because "I know things." I'm not the smartest kid in the classroom, I am average the only reason I look that is because I'm just the one who actually works and listens to lessons (to the best of my abilities, my learning disability makes things hard) I still struggle with math and poems like anyone else, however I get it done, I listen to the material, I go into the book. Sure I may not be "living in the moment" but I'm making sure I have life after Highschool.
That's good school was hard for me because I feel like I had the personality of a gen alpha growing up and yeah most students well they were probably typical millennials thing is looking back I don't think I know what a typical student millennial was.
@@thewewguy8t88typical millennials were optimistic over-achievers who all went to higher ed because we were told to. Most of us had poor guidance because most of our parents had never gone to higher ed and also believed things would just work out if we went. Our guidance counselors were rewarded for just getting us to college, while our college counselors had no idea what they were talking about and would talk us into any degree to just get a degree. We then graduated with a ton of debt into one of the worst economies to graduate into (08-16 was fucking horrendous, the memes of entry-level with 2 to 3 years of experience were not lying) and were expected to just work our way through gig work while interning for no pay to get a foot in the door. This was based on the belief that the world was still like the 70's and 80's where you would eventually prove yourself and get a seat at the table. Problem was, there were far too many of us graduating and companies, being companies, would gladly exploit piles and piles of free labor indefinitely. This wasn't helped by the poor economy witnessing the boomers delay retirement until conditions were better, causing this weird bottle-necking in the economic life-cycle. This wasn't helped by Boomers failing to save properly due to decades of government and corporate encouraged consumerism that we will be paying for, for decades to come. Everyone is bottled up with debt of all kinds, and Boomers are just as much victims of this trend as Xers, Millennials, and Zoomers. We need to stop blaming generations for shit that was caused by all of society. Just wait until we hit gen alpha getting fucked by losing a year of schooling due to COVID and then dealing with a 0 repercussion environment due to well-meaning but destructive lenience for poor discipline. We will all need to avoid just blaming them for not seeing it coming. I can't stand when millennials get blamed for taking on college debt when no one fucking knew at the time what the long-term repercussions of the "lots of debt with no way to pay it for nearly a decade" would be.
We were all naive, and the most irritating amongst us got to be elevated to the leads in our society because companies tried to make up for their blatant, cut-throat behavior by promoting diversity as an aesthetic. That last bit still deeply concerns me, as I have a terrible feeling we are about to witness a massive backlash against it over the next decade because Westerners are extremophiles who love rocking back and forth on the political spectrum.
Yup this is very accurate but no one talks about that stuff heck we were kind of the ginipigs for all the stuff gen z and alpha goes though and yeah now most of us are parents to Alphas who clearly want to protect them from what happened to us@@Lupostehgreat
@@Lupostehgreatagreed
Aww thanks so much!!! 🥹🥹 I’m fairly new, and super appreciate the kind words and support!! Thanks for the gen alpha feedback too. I saw varying ranges when I first researched it and figured it’d be a loose ballpark. But good to know!
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@@SirSugarMeat np!
Thank you for making me feel that I’m not crazy or a bad teacher.
Due to medical issues, I’ve been a student at the same college for twice as long as other students. Through the years, the behaviour and performance of my fellow students, especially in the younger classes, went downhill extremely fast. It peaked with last years’s first years, but it’s still chaos. My teachers changed the whole rulebook because of last year. Nothing’s allowed anymore. Half their class failed and quit. Being a bit more trusted, I’ve been privy to more of my teachers’ thoughts about the whole situation.
They’re not happy. I think “never seen a class so disturbingly poorly behaved, and are meetings keep being about how to fix it” fell. Comparing this to the first year I started with and what I considered a bad class then, it’s unsettling. Yes, I got older and found my standards GOING DOWN because of what became normal to see.
These are ADULTS. GenZ adults. People the same age as many who’ll read this (if anyone still reads this). It’s been going down for a long time.
The new first years are relatively okay from what I know, but it’s not much this time. I wish I could hope this is where it goes uphill again, but videos like this make that seem unlikely.
(10 minutes in) One can say the problem comes from high up in the pyramid and just trickles down. When I asked teachers I know why this is happening, they all told me the same answer: they had their hands tied up. What could have happened is, in an attempt to detach from the old, violent school, which was very negative, we went so far away we're getting into the opposite negative (ie a school that is too soft, that lets things slide too much without doing nothing) Underfunding is also a very important issue here.
If you are not scared of consequences at home for misbehaving, there is nothing teacher will be able to do anyway.
Sure if the only way you know to motivate people is through punishment.
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 There is no other way then punishment. When your kid misbehaves, and you don't give him his reward for behaving proper, how would you call that if not punishment? You just moving the expectation around.
100%. When there is a bad kid it means their parents have failed them... If the parents don't care about raising their kid to have good character, morals, education etc... Those kids bring that same attitude to school and then the poor teachers have to suffer for the parents failure. But also bring back proper discipline to schools, so that when kids do crazy shot atleast the teachers can have the power to shut that shit down! Those kids were failed by their parents, but right now they are also failed by the schools too. Those kids are gonna either go to jail because they can't adapt and keep getting into trouble, or they are gonna struggle HARD once real world hits them. Jail or struggle, both are bad signs that a kid has been failed. But also imagine those kids in the work force, and as this worlds future leaders. People in general already are lazy and incompetent but this is next level. Those kids are bred to be as incompetent and lazy as humanly possible. It makes me think this was planned. Conspiracy theory: Make the people lazy and dumb so they are easy to control. Check!
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 As if punishment wasn't extremely effective
Plenty of hunter gatherer tribes omit any kind of punishments of each other, they consider children just as valuable and mentally capable as the adults. They also value nurturing and attentive care. Our society is the opposite, as soon as we let up even a tiny bit of our punitive or controlling treatment of certain populations, we cry about going too soft and wanting to enact punishment that never really went away in the first place. Our society did have some form of alloparenting before, but it focused on abuse and control of children, not respect and nurturing. People want the village back, but we need to change how we view or treat younger people, otherwise it won't work.
I’m a senior in high school who wants to be an art teacher! My school does really well with discipline, we do have a whole team of social workers and a guy whose job is to talk with the kids with bad behavior specifically. Everyone loves him so it usually goes pretty well. I didn’t know about restorative justice before watching your video but I can regonize my school does it quite well.
I want to be a teacher because my own art teachers have inspired me and supported me so much throughout my high school career and I’d like to have the same positive impact on other kids. I’m very curious to see how the kids and the school landscape has changed by the time I become a teacher.
this was literally me 7 years ago and this is my last year teaching. had the same spark but im all burnt out now. good luck though!! we need y’all!
I am an art teacher and have been for 25 years. I hope you do go into art teaching. It is great…depending on the school.
1: mandatory parenting classes
2: better training and pay for teachers, higher education and pay the younger the child.
We need a lot more than that. We need a complete cultural overhaul on how we treat kids
we had a year in my middle school where we lost so many teachers that we didn't have anyone to teach my 8th grade science class. it got so dire that the school was under threat of being shut down if just one more person quit. as a last resort, the school librarian was asked to teach our science class. the school librarian did NOT have the training or certifications needed, he was completely unprepared, never taught a single class in his life. you'd think this is a nightmare scenario, and it easily could have been, BUT this man's science class ended up being the best class any of us had ever had, and it's purely because our librarian was blatantly ignoring most of the mandatory curriculum, not giving out any homework, and doing stuff his way. dude was a huge nerd and was HYPED about classifying rocks and how they were formed. he would literally go home and study this stuff the night before, then come to class brimming with excitement to tell us what he learned, and it was infectious. that class had every single one of the worst class clowns in our grade in it, names i will never forget because of how often i fantasized about killing them with my bare hands, and even they were transfixed. THEY WANTED TO LEARN. the only reason my school got away with this is because it was a small rural area and our test scores were so abnormally good that year (DESPITE DOING NO HOMEWORK, MIND YOU) that the state turned a blind eye to what i'm sure had been extremely illegal. that librarian is currently running for mayor right now and there's no doubt he has the vote of everyone who took that 8th grade science class.
to me, it's damning evidence that kids these days are just as curious as ever, they're just being shoved into a structure that isn't actually designed for human beings. the more you try to regulate how teachers are allowed to teach, more tests, more homework, etc, the worse it gets, and the worse their behavior gets because they're so frustrated and mentally checked out. that combined with the rising cost of living bringing ungodly amounts of stress to the average household and social media melting everyone's brains is a recipe for the disaster we're seeing today.
I think children resent having to go to school. They don’t understand why they need to be there and nobody explains it very well. It’s not always about learning the subject matter, it’s learning how to learn, study, comprehend topics, and gain a base understanding of a wide variety of topics that you can pull from throughout life. Children think “why do I have to do this stuff, I’m never going to need ___” Here are a few examples: You are 23 and one of your friends is excited to show you his hydroponics garden. He throws out words like chlorophyll and Ph levels. You might not remember exactly where you learned those things from, but they are one of the many random bits of knowledge you learned at school. How to say hello, my name is… and goodbye in Spanish or French makes you a more well rounded person. When you want to do home renovations, knowing how to figure out the square footage of an area quickly is super helpful. When you want to be an influencer, a company wants to trust that you know the differences between your and you’re. A plumber should know the differences between a 90 and 45 degree angle.
I think the big problem is I know plenty of people who don't know the stuff in your first two examples who graduated college.we have phones now. If I want to understand hydroponics wikipedia is right there.
I'm not saying that's the right thing to do but I can't blame kids for thinking a lot of the memorization and regurgitation is useless.
Lmao the only thing they actually need to teach is critical thinking skills and the rest works itself out naturally, but the insistence on outdated curriculum actively works against that because to force yourself to meaningfully participate in school currently you have to suspend all critical thinking.
Kids avoid school because school is bad, dehumanizing and demotivating. You learn to parrot, actual criticality is not welcome. It doesn't need to be explained.
@@Chingakyckaling As a student who has faced discrimination for doing different approaches I fw this take
Hell, I hated school too. Still didn't act like a shit ass
here's a solution to the Chromebook attention problem:
give them laptops with no graphical user interfaces.
only the terminal.
Or just monitor and restrict what websites they can go on. Can’t play games or music if they’re blocked.
great now they know how to touch type, AND playing text based video games you just made them nerd lol
(actually this would be very good especially for a coding class)
the fucking computer literacy people have lost after the popularization of shut down locked up chromebooks and windows pcs with only a browser to use is insane.
I'm in a game design and animation class and oh my god my teacher has had to remind people how to open a zip file and I'm literally one of the only people there who know any of what we're talking about. and we're using construct, no scripting, which while interesting and easy to use is like handing someone scratch++.
honestly it'd be great if we could just actually teach people well but bureaucracy essentially throws you into a box.
my teacher is pretty great though, and my problems are probably only caused because I'm literally too far ahead.
but yeah command line only, they shall know how to surf the web text only and use a bbs. we need to teach people how computers work at their base level if we want them to use them well
if you haven't already, hook yourself up to the fediverse. you'll fit in there.
Interdisciplinary knowledge under capitalism is a lie. keep asking your techy boss too many sociologist sounding questions about "ethics" and you wont be working for him much longer. @@zelokorLocalGodOfChaosAndBread
you get it!
@@lelduck6388 if they block scratch
I'll block their life
Nothing will get in between a Guy and His Games
I am a senior in high school and I have been noticing all this creeping in over my high school career. I FAILED my freshman year due to my mental issues perfectly synchronizing with quarantine to make it impossible to do a single assignment at a certain point, and honestly I wish I was allowed to redo it. redoing that year would look so much better on my diploma than a 1.3, and 0.6 gpa for those two semesters, but here I am an otherwise honors student with a sub 3.0 gpa. I don't get straight A's or anything but I got a 3.0, and a 3.6 last year, and ended up going from a 2.0 to a 2.4 GPA. Teachers have gotten much more lenient, and while I do like that homework mainly consists of class projects (as in we work on it partially in class, but few if any finish it in class), things still are getting more lenient. people always complain about freshman, but this year's freshmen are the WORST. The teachers are talking more and more about behavioral problems now. The school has basically no penalties for doing anything bad. I have heard stories of teachers walking in on kids vaping, and simply walking out. Others are talking to kids on Instagram. I don't feel like high school has prepared me for college at all, and I have seen more and more teachers leave. I am genuinely afraid of what will happen to our school system in a couple years because not a single teacher in the school does it because it makes money. passion is the only thing that motivates them because of how underpaid they are in fact I have not heard of a single one that is financially capable of living alone. We are the 48th worst state in the US for schools where the food is unsafe, and teachers don't even need a degree anymore, but it is somehow still getting worse. My peers hate the freshman but honestly I feel bad for them, I have seen nothing but a steep decline ever since quarantine.
The worst part is, I know firsthand that when a student makes a teacher quit, they celebrate. I've watched my cohorts do this exact thing. Building on that, all of my teachers would let me get away with extensions when I had a good excuse. I just became the master of excuses and I was able to get away with way too much.
If school taught me anything, it was how to lie and cheat without getting caught.
Same here. Why study for a subject you hate when cheating is so incredibly easy?
exactly since people can just use chatgpt with the current technology,ai might as well teach them instead of real teachers since students dont really get anything from school@@smergthedargon8974
I went to school in the 80s and 90s and I had undiagnosed ADHD for most of it. If you had asked me, in grade school, why I said something that disrupted the classroom, or wasn't doing my work, I wouldn't have had any kind of answer.
I was frequently sent to detention, which meant that over the combined lunch/recess time, instead of going outside in whatever weather, where I would often sit alone and contemplate life, and then going into a noisy smelly lunchroom to eat lunch, I could sit in a quiet classroom over that time, read books and magazines, and eat lunch at my leisure.
My mom had told me about my permanent record, and how in the future employers would look at that and that would prevent me from getting jobs and such, so after my first detention, which I got on accident (I said damn in class and didn't know it was a bad word), I was pretty emotionally crushed because I thought I had no future anymore, and as you can guess I discovered I preferred detention to lunch and recess, so they became sort of a reward stimulus for me (I didn't know what to tension was going to be the first time, but I thought it was going to be horrible, and when all it was was sitting at a table, I was relieved that it wasn't really so bad at all). This wasn't something where I sat down and thought this all through, it was just kind of the natural chain of events.
Damn, it sounds like you weren’t all that bad? You just needed a less overstimulating environment to chill out and relax. I wasn’t a troublemaker, but I used to sneak off into the computer lab and our school’s greenhouse because the cafeteria was so damn loud despite having no close friends to eat with.
I worked with Gen Z (or tail end Gen Z) in some training environments and I could definitely see the steady decline you were talking about. It's funny to me seeing Gen Z call this out and be shocked by it when they themselves were some of the rudest mfers I had to deal with 4 years ago. I see it as a cultural problem. "Discipline" has become a dirty word. We think it means violence or hitting or traumatizing our kids, so we don't do any discipline at all. Consequences are ugly, and shame has been lost as a cultural value. Teachers have been stripped of every capacity to be disciplinarians and then they are expected to take the blame for kids performing badly while parents don't lift a finger to change anything.
That's because there is a massive difference between older gen z and younger gen z. I remember being shocked at what younger kids where getting away with that wouldn't have ever flied. For kids my age. I'm an older gen z. Honestly I don't relate at all to younger gen z kids. There are so many that are so rude and entitled. I was surprised by it four years ago to when I was 21.
I'm really shocked at Gen Z being shocked by it too, at least the younger ones. Like a lot of them were disrespectful iPad kids themselves. They were the blueprint.
Being right smack dab in the middle of gen Z and being 18 now, I can definitely say it was always a problem. Being autistic but "not autistic enough" to be in any resource classes meant I got no accommodations, and was constantly having meltdowns from how disrespectful and loud other students were. It was horrible. Teachers and faculty did nothing.
@@nikkibee139who drew those blueprints though?
@@nikkibee139 I can guarantee you that the Gen Z that got recommended this video weren't the ones who were goofing off in class. Those guys are too busy being failures in life currently.
I'm so glad you brought up the savior complex teachers I was taught by one in high school. It was a weird vibe ( for me) from day one. She gave everyone three extra weeks to do their summer reading. So annoying for the kids who actually did summer reading. She wanted all of us to feel welcome. She wanted to get to know all of us deeply. Encouraging kids to divulge their deepest secrets. She seemed to want to be our best friend. I'm not saying all of her methods were bad. I'm sure that she really did help some students. It just seemed to be taking a lot out of her. She almost seemed to resent us after a while. We blamed ourselves at 16. Now I know she was just burnt out. Probably realizing she can't be best friends with 16-year-olds
She seemed to not have a great sense of self. Like we were her life. She seemed to care a lot about what we thought of her. She didn't have a good grasp on child adult boundaries. She also seemed like you could walk all over her. A lot of students did.
She would favor certain kids and I'm sure they would have a great experience. I'm pretty sure they had her phone number.
The last draw for me is when she started getting in fights with her favorite students. They would get an argument like friends do. The only issue was she was a teacher in her 30s getting in an argument with a 16-year-old. Just bizarre.
Like you said it was never anything abusive just inappropriate.
I was born in 2001, the cohort a year younger than mine (so people born in 2002 & later) were noticeably worse behaved than my cohort and my seniors. I was pretty studious until the second half of year 10 through to end of high school (so for a 2.5 years) when I was hit hard with depression until the end of 2020 (so for ~5 years), and completely disengaged from anything other than summative reports (I was a STEM student) and nothing would get me to engage, I found myself pretty obnoxious (the worst was an occasional disruption to the class when I started speaking to myself out loud when I was thinking about something tangentially related to what was being taught) at this point despite trying not to be, but I was just completely left to my devices (I was always a really responsible and trusted student up to this point, keeping my peers in check by calling out their bad behaviour, and learning university level physics from the beginning of high school). but a firm "stop that, your..." always got me to realise that I was being a bit much, and I found saying that to others always got them to as well. so I got to agree with the conclusion of the video, what is missing from school (and society) is an authoritative "that's bad this is why".
I'm not a teacher but I know exactly what you're talking about of the decline. I also agree that there is hope for Gen Alpha because I dealt with one Gen Alpha child and they were really difficult to work with (they were 4 turning 5 and it was during the Pandemic and doing school in Tenessee.... while they were at their grandmother's house in *Florida* and had to pretend that they were just staying in their mother's house....), but after I worked with him with firmness but also did let him get his energy out by doing fun things that also helpped him learn, When his reading and math was extreamly behind by the beginning of the year.... he skyrocketed to slightly above his kindergarden peers by the end. His Older brother struggled in parts of his schooling as well, but I sat down and broke it down where he understood it better and explained the outside implications (such as explaining, "We write what the books use for Native Americans.... but *never* call a Native American "Indian" outside of this book. They will get upset with you because there's a lot of bad connotation to that word.") After working with him, he also caught up with his peers and even surpassed expectations.
I had a *extreamly* nightmarish girl I babysitted in a Synagoge babysitting job (you have to watch a whole group of them, and I was alone for most of these babysitting jobs with a large group of one age group. when we're suppose to have two people per group. Also these kids came from really rich families.) She made fun of my clothing, she was nasty to the other girls, she even went as far as tell another babysitter that she didn't want to listen to "I'll tell my mom that you touched me wrong." and was verbably combative to yet *another* babisitter. For the clothes thing, I switched it around and said "how would you feel if you were called ugly for what you're wearing? Would you feel upset?" When they said yes, "Then don't do it to others because you don't know the history of what they wear." And that stopped. When any of the girls (and the next year boys of the same age group) I would put them in a location where they can't do something, have them sit there and *watch* the other kids have fun because they were on good behavior, which brought them to reality real quick that they can't just do whatever they want (the boys had flipped a table with a little old lady trying to watch them, I came in to that woman's rescue and the next day when I got them they were all like "Oh no, it's the tough lady".) The girl that was a nightmare? because of these things, she listened to me when all I told her after sitting to the side where she can't play with others for a short bit to sit properly she did as she was told and I got her to stop arguing with the other Babysitter. The next year later? All the other babysitters who didn't know her the year prior actually said she was the sweetest girl they worked with.
Gen Alpha aren't hopeless, you just need to find the right balance of fun, understanding, and disapline to make it work. It's the same as working with the kids to get them to read and pay attention. Put it in a perspective where the kid actually felt excited to start work. People tell me that I should become a teacher (I studied art in collage so they were thinking that) but I donno if the systems that we have would allow me to do the things that *actually* help the kids. I'm more upset with the system than the kids.
honestly i feel like in other countries like india this isn't that big of a problem yet because the parents and school regime is ultimately still pretty strict. but i think this will get resolved because every society has had their own types of misbehaviours in their time and we've always figured out how to keep kids in line
There's still a sense of community and set values in India and countries like it.
@@kristenmoonrise i agree
It's less about the fact that the parents are "most strict" and more that Indian culture encourages parents to be close with their kids and the rest of the family and community in general. American culture is basically the opposite, and neglect has become a bigger issue with each generation over here. I'd even argue that American culture kind of low key pressures parents to basically emotionally neglect their kids and *not* spend time with them. There are people here in the US who think that you shouldn't check on your infant baby when they cry at night, and the argument is that letting your kid cry it out on their own will help kids learn to "self-soothe" and not get spoiled, and you're basically considered a helicopter parent if you're concerned about your child's grades and spend more than a few minutes with them each day. So most parents in non-Western countries, like India, would be considered "helicopter parents" according to Americans. It's no wonder a lot of Americans have issues and are obsessed with individualism.
@@elizrebezilmadommdo1662 i agree w what you're saying totally but also I'm Indian and I've seen how sometimes this kind of parenting is detrimental to the health of the children too because parents get wayyy too involved in the kids' life. I think there needs to be a balance overall
While true, there are many problems with India and Asian school culture as a whole
As someone who’s been babysitting a Gen-alpha kid. It’s terrifying. She’s so young but she knows things she not supposed to know about yet, but her grades are quickly dropping. It’s scary, she’s lost that childhood innocence I saw as she grew up, and she’s only second grade. A part of what dooms these kids is their education system and teacher’s expectations. They expect them to be more mature than they have been taught to.
my main problem with chromebooks is that they don't even teach you basic computing skills. in the students' minds, the os, browser, and search engine are all just "google" to them, which is a step even worse than chrome on windows. they go to google classroom and any assignments just get created automatically, click submit when they're done. if they need to access it from anywhere else it just shows up as one of the first things in recent documents. they're not learning how to manage files and folders, no habit of saving their work, etc.
Millennial parents suck. Children need to be in danger outside. They NEED unsafe playgrounds (there's a lot of study in the UK on this topic). They NEED bad situations and to be allowed to resolve them. Moreover, they NEED to be uncomfortable, they need to fight, they need to socialize along with all the good and bad that comes with. Babying them doesn't teach them anything.
Millennials are actually kids themselves. They only try to protect themselves using their children's safety as a shield.
Clearly we need gladiator pits in school. Bring on the baby fights!
Nah but I do agree with you that kids need to experience discomfort and discord in order to grow. Obviously not to a degree where they could actually be hurt or left with lasting emotional damage, but to some degree the chaos and cliques and other bullshit of public school does help teach kids how to navigate and cope with a world that won't always be nice to them.
@@herpderp3916 Or it doesn't teach them that and they solve their problems by bringing their dads life ender to school.
Like yeah kids need to explore and have independence but they don't need bullying and cliques. That's stupid.
@@strayiggytv With how bad mental health is by the time I graduated my head was on a swivel. Someone coming to school with a gun was always on my mind. I can't imagine how kids nowadays deal with it. Other than being mentally screwed for life.
@@LuxNovuz exactly. It's wild people are like "lol kids need exclusion and shame from their peers to be normal." Which we've literally seen the results of that stuff taken to it's natural conclusion. People who say that we're probably bullies themselves or think kids ostracized 'deserved it' somehow. It's dumb as hell
So, I teach in Korea and the kids here are pretty wonderful. I hear horror stories from people who teach back home, and it makes me want to stay teaching here forever. The kids are the least of my problems here...
Some of my coworkers though? 0_0 Making me wanna quit everyday.
What do the co-workers do? They are my problem too here in Germany. And the parent's arrogance and mean behaviour..
My husband recently resigned from teaching in November. Hed only taught for a year and a half before he finally hit a breaking point. His own behavior was starting to change, i noticed how stressed he was, he was snappy at kids, frequently yelling, all behavior that wss super out of character for him. On top of his last few month's were particularly bad because during the summer I had open heart surgery and just before school started, he saw me have a stroke. He couldn't admit that he was struggling emotionally that what I'd gone through had really effected him and when you get some shit head students constantly pushing your buttons everyday, it was just too much. Hes finally doing better and seeing a therapist but man i couldn't believe how bad hus students were. He taught middle school and one day i visited i saw a girl punch a boy in the face and just how disrespectful they were. It was so demoralizing
This is me for the past 5 years, now it is a little better because I don't lead my own class anymore and am "only" a subject teacher. But I couldn't recognize me anymore, I behaved and reacted very loud, nervous, anxious, aggressive... Stuttering and crying. Always had to defend myself every day to nasty co-workers, school principals, parents. Damn, I should have studied law, get into management or become a diplomat because this is no way of living with such a low wage!
I hope your husband is doing better and that you are healthy again, it is really ghetto out there. I gained 100 lbs!! As a former little model! Lost it all again thanks to stomach sleeve surgery but yet! This "career" makes you sick. And they want that to happen, nothing can make me believe otherwise.
Did your husband changed his job now?
Hi, I just wanted to say that as a Gen Z who is now an adult, looking back, I am really happy I was able to get close to one of my teachers and we did exchange phone numbers. Every person's situation is different, I can't say what others are doing, but for me, it was very much needed and I am very happy my teacher had good boundaries and was still open to connecting with me. (around 10th grade) I didn't have a great life at home and so it was nice to feel appreciated somewhere. Sad to say, I did cause a lot of trouble in school..
Moral of the story: Don't treat kids like adults.
Even adults these days are hedonistic, disrespectful, and lack discipline which is an even bigger issue I’d say, but that’s neither here nor there.
More so, treat kids the way they behave. If they act like adults, treat them like adults. Give those kids the opportunity to continue acting that way
From my experience teaching, treating kids like *people* is what you should aim for. Don't baby talk them, but also don't treat them like they know how to do everything. It's a fine line but once you're relatable to the students they'll come to appreciate you. Talk to them as if they're a person and not a paycheck. I might not know much about skibidi toilet digital circus whatever but I know enough to have the students I work with engage in discussions with me and encourage them to do their work. If you incorporate things students like into their work they really appreciate it. Also lets their creativity go wild too, I've noticed. Obviously there's a time and place but if you're able to keep track of their favorite things, especially if it's a class wide phenomenon, then it makes teaching a lot easier.
Going to contest that. Treat kids the way adults need to be treated
@@lambybunny7173as a high schooler myself, i agree!! Most, if not all, the teachers i had liked were the ones who’d talk to me when i was struggling and help me fix it, also the ones who did care and appreciate my achievements. I especially loved it when a teacher would bring in drawing into projects or analyzing things as I am a very artistic person and it made me enjoy the projects. it also helped me get courage to try out AP classes. From my perspective, most of the good teachers i have would talk with students, maybe joke around a bit, but they still held authority in class like not allowing phones, having grading based on participation, and actually teaching us. It did absolutely suck to see some of my favorite teachers be treated horribly by students before though, i definitely think one thing that has to be changed in terms of that is kids need to be taught some form of humility.
Wait.... NAWWW no way you have ONLY 16 subs. You just earned one. I rlly thought you were a mainstream youtuber. Good luck. One thing gen alpha is 2010-2024, mark mccrindle who is active on social research and generationology, has a book, and serveral articles that say it's 2010-2024. Also the Pew Reasearch center, the government sites for many countries, a lot of sites , verison, apple, shopify, many, many marketing articles state gen alpha is 2010-2024, but only a few saw 2013-2025.
I feel like generational divides are so funky though. I am ‘95 and act a lot more Gen Z than my partner who is ‘97 (very millennial).
I once taught a nine year old how to read using a text heavy video game. In order to know where to go he had to read its text. I controlled how quickly the text would stay on screen (generally allowed 30 seconds). He got very good at reading very quickly.
That’s cool! I think kid friendly jrpgs/rpgs are the way to go, actually!
I am a teacher...I have taught kids from preschool through 12th grade (and tutored university students). One thing I think is important to keep in mind is that older generations have complained about how the newest generation is awful and disrespectful and completely lacking work ethic for...many generations. There are some unique challenges that are specific to Gen Alpha, but I hear people talk about these kids like they're a completely different species. In my opinion, the biggest issue is a lack of adaptation in nearly all our systems...with the education system being one of the biggest offenders. We know that the one-size-fits-all approach that we have used for ages doesn't work...we know that scaring kids into obedience does more harm than good...we know that the curricula we use doesn't teach the skills kids actually need today. So we try to soften things up and add a shiny coat of paint by focusing on 'growth mindset' and 'learning styles'...but in reality very little actually changes. Real change requires real investment, and until we have a change in priorities, we will have neither. I recently started working at a private school that focuses on 1-on-1 education. It is certainly not perfect, but the difference is huge. We have students who were very behind in school (as in, it was unclear whether or not they would even graduate high school) that are likely to graduate early only a year or two later. The school is only 4 days a week and typically doesn't assign homework...but we still cover the same things (often to a deeper level) than traditional schools. Of course, we just don't have enough teachers and resources to do 1-on-1 education everywhere...but I definitely think that the size of our classrooms is one of the biggest reasons we are in the current situation.
I’m a Genexer with an Alpha 3 year old. I feel very “old school” compared to most other moms, and I don’t care! 🙂 I think physical punishment is bad, but don’t understand what was so wrong with detention. It seemed to work! Teachers don’t have time for this reciprocal justice crap. They need to teach, not provide therapy.
Understanding students is far from giving therapy. It's something us gen x's rarely got to experience. If we had, many of us would have had an easier life. Meaning less struggles.
Avoiding authority and trying to be a buddy to kids instead of an adult seems to be the issue. Adults and authority figures can talk with and understand kids, but also make them face the concequences of their actions. Kids need adults in their lives, the kind of responsible, reliable figures that the best teachers have always been, at least back when I was in school.
the problem with detention is that it's unpaid overtime for the teachers. After a stressful, mentally harmful day at work (and with marking and such to be done at home still along with regular chores), what teacher is going to volunteer?
OH. I had no idea you don't get paid! That's BS.@@RTAbram
Yeah how dare teachers want to go home instead of unpaid extra work including contacting parents who don't seem to care.
I was initially going to respond with a counterargument to the notion that detention seemed to work, but I think upon further consideration, you might have a point. The constant stream of stimulation is, more or less, frying our brains. We are constantly occupied with things - entertainment, work, news, productivity - whether we like it or not. The fact that we are never bored and that time for introspection and reflection have been minimized and absent means that we are not thinking about our growth or actively working towards a goal. I’m 17, and I spent a lot of time that could’ve been used towards introspection with escapism. Rather than facing my problems head on, I’d been given so many outlets to escape from them - constant background music, having a video essay on all the time, gaming, social media (i’m 7 months free now!!), texting - and it all kept me from actively working towards my growth. Detention, in a time of seemingly endless stimulation, might be a source of release and a well-needed chance to just… reflect in silence for a lot of students.
We need a massive reworking of education. Many systems in the US are dysfunctional. The federal government is bogged down with bad ideas made by people far removed from their subjects and too concerned with keeping their power. The powers that be (unions/DNC) are against charter schools, but I don’t see any other path forward but to move away from the industrial mass classrooms, generic curriculum method. Kids need to be outside, play more, learn practical skills etc. School is too far removed from practical life and individuals needs. We need to refocus on what works to support focus and learning. Like no phones, and having standards in behavior with structure for kids to understand the adults really do have their back. Policies that aren’t known to work should NOT be rolled out en mass just because teachers were taught it at grad school. Theory needs to take a back seat to empirically proven methods.
More than a rework of the education system, we need parents to actually have time to raise their kids. A teacher can only teach so much to a 20-30 people classroom. It's at home where the kid will learn most of the real stuff that is actually useful to their current day to day. But with both parents working to barely make ends meet, then who the fuck is there to teach the child or atleast reinforce learning? fucking peppa pig and paw patrol on youtube
Unfortunately, it's not just in the US. Here in Brazil, we have a completely different system, and the exact same is happening here.
it's happening in sweden too, so it must be something deeply rooted in educational systems
@@silverdrag0n_incorrect. All the data shows that parental involvement is the number one indicator of academic success. The curriculum doesn’t matter when the quality of the student themselves is too poor to work with due to parents not parenting. You can’t turn shit into gold
@@badart3204 tell that to the neurodivergent kids not getting the accommodation they need
Im a 12 year old girl who had the WORST EXPERIENCE IN SCHOOL. I'm in 7th grade right now, and I'm finally homeschooled, because oh my god it was PURE TORTURE being in my school.
A funny story... well, not for me, but one time, it was raining. my classmates and i were lining up while we held our umbrellas. well, not *everyone*, but you know what i mean. i was holding mine, minding my own business, when suddenly a girl from my class (who is very rude we'll call her V) comes up to me and gets under my umbrella, holding it. V was like "oh my god thank you so much you're a lifesaver" when i literally never gave her permission/invited her under my umbrella. then, when i kept pulling on it, asking her to please let go, she finally let go, and went behind me. she started cussing me out, calling me a b1tch, a wh0re, an idiot, stuff like that, just because i didnt want to give her my UMBRELLA. oh yeah, me and V have a long history.
Thats one of the examples of how sensitive Gen Alphas are. i am one myself, but i wouldnt call someone those disgusting words just because of an umbrella. heck, i wouldnt even go under ones umbrella without their consent.
for all the parents out there, please teach your kids to be kind individuals, take care of themself, and be both school smart and street smart. do NOT let them end up like someone like V, because, from my point of view, that would be pretty embarrassing if i was a parent.
When I was in third grade, a teacher who didn't want to retire was forced to retire and got replaced by a much younger teacher. I left me years behind in multiplication (we were memorizing our tables) and I still struggle to conceptualize multiplication. This wasn't an end of year thing, she was replaced at the end of the first semester. Our new teacher had to get a sub for the last two weeks of school. Why? Because she had to go back to college. The original teacher had to tutor me to catch up.
What they did was replace an experienced teacher in the middle of the school year, all because it cost less. Around this time they made major changes to the curriculum- causing teachers to get even more behind.
I'm 18. I'd class myself as mid-gen z. I'm not very surprised as a student still in school. I graduate this year and I can say that every year it has gotten worse in the way that teachers and students are handled.
Something's telling me you're gonna make it big. Great content and editing. Keep up the good work.
Hello! I am from Kazakhstan. I teach English to Russian speaking students (adults). It was really interesting to learn about your experience as a teacher 😊
As soon as you started talking about the disciplinary parts of restorative justice, my eyes rolled to the ceiling. It sounds good on paper, but quite frankly? It's too involved. Too many steps, too much follow up, and people are way too overworked to be able to do that for everyone, for every diciplinary infraction. I think it sounds like a great way to parent, but for an institution? Yeah, that's a nightmare
I'm a millenial parent.
My nearly-6-year-old daughter came home from her first day back to school from xmas break, she said she was playing "skibbity toilet" at recess?! My teenager had to explain what it even is to me 😭 but she didn't understand anything about it. There were other kids who were trying to make her understand!
The kids at my son's high school are breaking the bathroom stalls, pissing on the floor, drinking and getting high at school! I know not all of that is unheard of, but... Pissing on the floor?! Wtf!!!
At my daughter's holiday bonfire thing, the things the other parents said to me made me 😳😳😳 it reinforces my ideals that parenting classes should be mandatory in school, part of health class or something. Every grade 9 student should bring home robot babies
As a childless millennial who was a student this isn’t a new problem, kids always found ways to avoid school work. Kids before “played hookie” plenty. My generation still could get handheld video game consoles etc and I had to deal with the shitheads who were spoiled and allowed to fail because they would be bullies to people like me who actually did the work. I failed because of them but I eventually succeeded in adult school. It’s not a new concept that kids will find ways to avoid work when they deal with problems at home and have no space for their own enjoyment too. Then you have the ones who are overly spoiled and the parents who allow their “little angel” be a terror should have someone put their foot down and expel that child etc if there is no changes done
This is so much of what my experience is. Like I am in a similar situation myself and I honestly can say I just overall feel thankful to no longer be in school anymore.
Hell, we've all seen enough movies from the 70's and 80's to know this has been the case for a long, long time. Shit that takes place in the 40's demonstrated this happening, as well. Our education system is built to make standardized workers, not scholars. It can never make the latter as you have to work hard and have the drive to be a scholar.
The place I did my gcses and a levels at was the one school I wasn't bullied and socially isolated at, and ended up doing even better at academically as a result. Why? Because the teachers there did NOT believe in pathetic restoritive justice policies and actually put their foot down when students were little lieces of sh*t to teachers or other students. Students were respected and treated as people rather than delicate angels, which meant we could better communicate criticisms we had of the class content / structure with the teacher and have it taken seriously. Teachers didn't put on a show about being strict, they were just consistent and actually followed through with the stated consequences if a student was disruptive or abusive. Kids who were considered "lost causes" and were expelled from several schools before that one THRIVED there and got way better grades than when they started and became lovely people to be around. NOT through restorative justice, but through actually getting help with work, not being talked down to or pandered to, and being treated like an adult who is responsible for their own actions they DO actually have complete control over.
Plus the school helped me get my autism diagnosis / the teachers there were the first to notice and point out my autistic traits, which showed they were actually paying attention to students instead of going "well my teaching course told me all kids act and think like this so I can ignore that one because she's already 'doing well' enough that I can completely neglect her and make sure idgaf that nobody ever wants to be around her and throws sh*t at her all the time! ^^"
I never even thought you could enjoy learning until I got out of school and had actual genuine curiosity about things I pursued of my own accord
Was legitimatly shocked when i saw the sub count. This shit has the production quality of someone with like 200k subs. Idk if youll see this but keep it up!
I worked at a school when i was sixteen as an intern. The line between employee and friend was crossed by day two. I just sorta let them drag me around; my socially anxious ass wasnt prepared to do anything an authoritative figure should. That was just a microcosm of what actual teachers gotta go through though, sympathy to all of them
I think we’re doomed. There’s a serious dumbing down going on coupled with loss of manners and respect for authority.
I'm a 16 year old Gen Z student whose in an Early college program, and I definitely agree with you about how younger Gen Z have been underperforming academically like Gen Alpha. My school accepts freshmen classes on a lottery basis, so even someone who just came from an alt middle school can still be accepted. Currently I'm a junior, and last semester I had to do a Human Observation Study for my Psychology class. I was researching wheather or not juniors who eat at Cafteria A (the college caf.) have better grades and study habits than juniors who eat at Cafteria B (the high school caf.). I created a paper 6 question survey included 4 multiple choice, 2 free response that needed atleast ONE full sentence, and a grade chart. Then I printed out 30 surveys and handed 15 surveys to each Cafteria. The majority of the Caf-A surveys were mostly filled out except the free responses questions and the chart, while the majority of the Caf-B surveys were returned undone with a surprising few that were fully filled out... TERRIBLY. All of them had near-illegible handwriting, grades as low as 8%, and didn't even write ina complete sentence. Also a decent amount of the grades of junoirs at Caf-A were poor too. I had to falsify the majority of the Caf-B and some of the Caf-A surveys to finished my project and fryed my whole brain in the process. This whole situation scares me how Gen Alpha will do not only in high school but in college too.
Hey! I was a science teacher too!
I taught for 35+ years. I started my career way back in 1985 on the Navajo Nation (I really enjoyed that). Later, I went overseas to teach internationally from 2000 - 2012 and then 2014 - 2022. Things were mostly okay in my science classes. When I returned to the USA in June 2022, I figured I could just keep working. I found a school in Albuquerque that was the only teaching job I wanted in NM. It was a tough charter school where, for many students, it was their last chance. I slowly gained their confidence and respect, and we had some good things happening. The downside was that my family and home were on the other side of the state. It made for long weekend commutes. So, in August 2023, I took a job teaching 6th grade science at a public school that was only an hour away. This was my intro to teaching Gen Alpha. It was a disaster, not immediately, but by October, I knew enough about the school, parents, and unruly students that I knew I would not complete the year. I gave a letter of resignation in early November, and I agreed I would finish the semester. Students got word I was resigning, some twisted into that I was getting fired. Anyway, I am a Gen Jones former teacher now looking for a non-teaching job. I've been watching a lot of UA-cam "Why I quit" videos and experienced most of, if not all, of the behaviors and reasons cited in these videos in that one semester. Good video! Thanks for sharing!
man, my class in middle school was a hell hole. istg the teachers were really tough because they verbally abused teachers sm. when our maths teacher of just ONE year changed the boys lost it. they made sure every class was hell for her. she was such a sweetheart. she always tried to help us. i struggled a lot with classes because the boys would not shut the fuck up so i literally gave up. i wouldn't pay attention to classes. the administration did nothing because it was a private school, their parents paid money. they would get yelled and sent back to class. but everything resetted tomorrow. it was a vicious cycle
I actually wrote about some of the issues I have seen in my time as a "gifted" kid in the school system. I think the school system of today is flawed, and that it always has been. Teachers don't help kids see false information and they never teach assertiveness. This whole thing where people refuse to teach their kids, and let them do as they please, is probably a biproduct of neglect. I mean Ipad kids and such are all around us, and it seems like kids are getting phones younger and younger. I feel so lucky that I was stubburn as a kid and wanted to calculate in my head instead instead of using a calculator cause even gen z can't calculate in their head now. Sorry for the rant, I promise my article is better articulated than this.
some of us struggle with calculation only in our heads, though
@@silverdrag0n_ I get why and it is by no fault of your own, I just wanted to point out some bad patterns I have noticed :D
As a former child, I think parents are the problem. When I was a kid the kids with younger parents were the worst and we alienated them. They were so pampered like not encouraged to pursue their interests but like their parents were yes men. This was like 2012-2017
As a senior in high school the loud and disruptive kids will always be apart of this i feel like most of this is a big generalization of kids and preteens alike there are good and well educated kids but there are also the bad and an increase of parents being enablers as a person who knows a lot of gen alpha kids through friends and family they are all vastly different and most of that is the parents but as a child who grew up with parents who just wanted to succeed i feel like i should be farther behind then i am. I am graduating this year and can barely do algebra but it is very hard to hold kids back because of the emotional affect it will have on kids taking them away from the friends they have already the whole system is broken and it’s very discouraging
As someone who is a part of the latter half of gen z and is still in high school, I totally agree with you. As someone who is very focused on doing well in school, it is really difficult for me to go into a class where either a. The teacher doesn’t actually teach (in my English class we literally just sit there for the entire hour. Usually there’s an assignment, but most of the time I can get it done in 10-15 mins. and a lot of my friends are the same way) or b. The kids can walk all over the teacher or the teacher has to try to spend almost all of class trying to get kids on task or to stop interrupting them or to stop playing on their phones. It is so frustrating since without all of that stuff happening, I would mostly like school, but it is difficult when there are classes where I either have to sit there frustrated with my classmates or treating the class like a study hall. Plus, some kids will complain about a teacher not teaching (when often times they actually are, the kids just not paying attention) but when a teacher actually teaching then they complain about that.
Still watching through, but what I need to address right away -- DAMN you have so much peculiar editing! I'm surprised that an account this small is eager to put so much effort into making the content appealing. Keep up the good job.
Also, a mic bro, I have the same Razer Siren
I was so sucked into the video immediately that I never realized that this wasn’t a big channel till I read your comment!
I expected her to have a few hundred k three hundred is a small number for how good the vid was
I would argue the most fundamental problem is there is no classes on How to Study. Not specifically on studying itself so everyone either assumes you know how and then dismisses failures as stupid, or don't ever try to care. Reading and math are NOT the foundation skills. Its how to learn. We miss that and with a weak foundation people succeed in spite of this disadvantage.
I've recently started my first year of college, and it's a massive step-up from my previous years of education. [I'm British, so our schools are a bit different than America/basically anywhere else.]
For example, my previous school had us worrying about uniform and equipment so much, and I felt like they cared more about it than our actual education. If you didn't have a pen? Detention? Missing a booklet that they gave out? Detention. It was lunchtime detention as well, so for a punishment of not having a piece of equipment, like a ruler or such, we'd be punished by missing like...90% of our lunchtime, which was like an hour already? It wasn't much. It's the same for if you didn't do enough work. If you fell behind in class, and asked for help, and you happened to do not much work because you were stuck, the teacher hits you with a "you should of asked for help earlier" and you get a detention.
It may not be my old school in particular, but all the teachers in my school felt like they were on a power trip. Not all of them were bad, like my history teachers, and the RE teacher, and most of the science teachers. As I no longer go to that secondary school anymore, i don't know how they are now, but I do know that the history teachers were confirmed to have plans on going to different schools shortly after I left, and so did the RE teacher.
Compared to college, it's a lot better.