Part of me is hopeful, but part of me is… concerned.
The change is astounding.
One of the teachers I worked with had a failing rate of 50%.
Half of her students had an F, and it was because they wouldnt hand their work in.
All were perfectly capable, hell the teacher actually did their worksheets with them in class!
They just would not take accountability for their missing work."
Anonymous
3.
“Im a young Gen X’er.
I cant believe elementary schoolers are using laptops for schoolwork.”
“It seems that parents nowadays want all the control and none of the responsibility.
Strict reading lists, approved curriculum, allergy rules… all the doing of parents.
Ask the same parents to discipline their kid [they would] never.”
I believe I started the first grade right when No Child Left Behind was implemented.
Anyway, I was in the third grade in the early to mid 2000s.
I was walking past the preschool classroom and peeped in.
The kids were sitting around a white board.
The teacher was pointing at words and the kids read them out loud.
“Emphasis on and stress around standardized testing.
Now, everything in public school is about testing.
Schools take slews of standardized tests.
Scoring effects school districts and teachers.
It’s the end-all be-all.”
robert_dunder
7.
“We had so many electives starting in junior high.
sweetpenguin21
9.
“A LOT has changed from when I was in school in the ’90s and early 2000s.
Obviously no one had cell phones.
The social environment was different.”
10.From a teacher: “Students dont take notes.
They dont even write well if they have to use a pen and paper.
I was sitting in my sons kindergarten orientation and learned that he was getting a Chromebook to use.
My thoughts were like, ‘Huh okay, thats cool.’
“Other interesting things: kids dont just have holidays and spirit week to dress up for.
No, theresgeographyweek and 12 days of holiday spirit.
Do you have to participate?
“Oh and virtual learning is fun when they wrap up the school for snow.
“We found our best option was for both my husband and I to take off work.
We were able to support both kids and provide a separate environment for my son to do class in.
jesslew
13.
“There are a ton of differences, mostly bad, but a few good.
My middle school students are absolutely screen-addicted and have very short attention spans.
Their handwriting is awful, but they can’t bang out efficiently either.
My students can barely write a proper paragraph in seventh grade.
Many of them have learned helplessness and low resource utilization skills.”
“Today, kindergarteners are expected to do homework, read, and do addition and subtraction.
In kindergarten in the 1960s, we learned about birds and Native Americans.
We didnt learn our alphabet or numbers until first grade.
My friends and I are all college graduates.”
“I graduated in 2002.
The disrespect from them is unbelievable, and believe me, I was a little asshole!”
“So many screens!
They have a bunch of laptops in the class too for the kids to play games on.
It seems more and more that the school system has become very technology oriented.”
School seemed legitimately over when you got to turn it in at the end of the year.”
“And with no textbooks, there are no use for any lockers.
They are now just a waste of space that’s blended into the background with no purpose.
I seen a few random ones being used as a comment box.
“The cheating is rampant and kids want to negotiate with you when they get caught.
Instead of saying ‘Im sorry, youre right.
No, kiddo, I cant.
They all feel entitled to an A for doing the absolute bare minimum.
I don’t care. "
sillyfish46
21.
“For me its snow days.
In reality if there was less than six inches we knew wed have school.
Its just wild to me!”
22.And finally: “Parents are NOT taking responsibility for raising their children.
Then, they blame the teachers for their children’s terrible behavior.
Your kids CAN’T READ!!!
Stop being their ‘friends,’ and help teachers.”
