Nearly 50% of replies mentioned parents being the issue.
This sparked hundreds of teachers sharing their own similar experiences.
“Having to compensate for the pandemics effect on curriculum.
Their decision was basically to send color by number pages home.”
u/childrenofthecornbread
3.
Also, on social media they become influenced by older kids rather than actual adults.
They forget theyre kids."
“The DISRESPECT!!!!
I teach preschool and the kids are so mouthy and disrespectful.
Parents are zero help and basically act like over-sized preschoolers.
Kids are parenting their parents and the parents are ok with it.
Anonymous
5.
“Im in my ninth year teaching middle school English.
My students ability to write well organized, thoughtful paragraphs is almost non-existent.
Even small formatting mistakesones that Ive never really seen made beforeare making it hard to read their writing.
For example, students dont put spaces after punctuation makes, or they put quotation marks backwards.”
“Even the kids who turn in work, they expect an A+ on every assignment.
These kids think a B is failing.
“Millennial high school English teacher here, also raising a 2-year-old boy.
There is almost no ‘average’ ground.
“Kids in middle school and high school face so much more pressure than when I was in school.
A lot of parents expect their kids to attend only the top schools.
They have shown their kids that they look down on people that dont want that.
And if you are interested in a top school, the admissions standards are wild.”
“We just heard that our local university had an average 3.8 GPA for incoming freshman.
Ive seen schools with 3% acceptance rates.
Plus, college isnt the best fit for every kid.”
u/PopCultureMama
9.
“I have a kindergartener.
I do feel that an issue her generation faces is the lack of choice with being shown online.
There are a billion ways for someone to hunt you down and on so many outlets.
Im sure you use a similar name on most platforms, right?
Have your location on?
Im legit afraid for some of my friends who have tweens.”
“A/S/L” (age, sex, location) was an acronym commonly used in early Internet chatrooms.
“Im an ‘old millennial’ with two sons who are three and one.
As I imagine them in school, Im terrified of the impact of social media.
But now with social media, theres no hiding.
Its a mess.”
“Since COVID, so many of my students (9th and 12th graderers) have NO social skills.
They lacked them before, but it’s so much worse now.
“Dedicated ‘cool aunt’ here.
One of the problems I see for my niece and nephew is the lack of affordable activities.
“Meanwhile, the price of going to an indoor playground or kids museum is higher.
“Active shooter drills in the US.
I certainly didn’t have to do any of that.”
u/Floods
16.
“Growing up, I had tornado drills, fire drills.
Working at schools now, we just finished code red, code yellow, shelter in place.
It’s the acknowledgement just being at a school can be dangerous.
My son’s school has had guns on campus at least twice this year.”
It’s become too easy to make excuses.”
u/emmak26
18.
“Kids today dont understand consequences, and thats not their fault, its ours.
“Accountability doesnt matter anymore.
Im a high school teacher and theres no one making the kids take punishments or reflect on their actions.
Many parents are often MIA, too.
“Its the parents parents have gotten SO much more entitled and demanding of teachers.
Ive never wanted to quit more.”
And lastly:
21.
“Kids haven’t changed.
Kids are gonna kid they’ll always do whatever they can get away with.
Nothing is ever their child’s fault.
The expectations they have of their children’s teachers are UNREAL.
Teachers were never meant to be replacement parents.
We are not free babysitters.
“It breaks my heart every day because teaching is (was?)
Complete lack of support (for teachers OR students) from lazy-ass parents.
That is what’s killing this generation.”
