Kids are getting ruder, teachers say. And new research backs that up
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Two of my kids became teachers recently. They said a lot of the kids are completely disrespectful, some violent, and also can’t read or write the appropriate grade level because of the newer pass them through system (no kid left behind). Much of their day is behavior management and not teaching. My wife and I are surprised because an 8-12 year old will do things we can even imagine trying to get away with at that age.
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With that said shiti parenting is largely result of poor social economic conditions. Even if you want to be a good parent it is very hard to do unless you got economic means AND time.
Have they tried NOT having kids then?
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I don’t claim it is all, but kids are incredible manipulators. And then you get the parents that are oppositional to information that doesn’t fit their view of their child. The kids see that parent backs them up, no matter what and so next week is same behavior problems. And the one school administration did not want to report behaviours to parents. I assume it then has to be logged and scored somewhere against a rating.
But yes it is the parents job, I totally agree. My kids are doing behavior work /parenting work at school which kills teaching lessons
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My kids are doing behavior work /parenting work at school which kills teaching lessons
And this is why teacher shortages will continue... no sane person would sign up for this imho
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I mean, they’re steeping in environments online that aren’t really very age-controlled. Log into any free-to-play or public server game with voice chat and give it a listen. It’s just a bunch of literal small children screaming racial slurs. They might not all be in environments like that, but enough of them are that it’s definitely going to substantially alter their experience.
They have a level of practical autonomy that we couldn’t have dreamed of with little to no oversight that at this point is decades entrenched. Outside of adult-only spaces the Internet is basically Children of the Corn. Even the ones who aren’t wrapped up in that nonsense have to contend with the ones who are, and none of them are going to have the emotional maturity to really deal with it properly.
How could we not expect rude children who grow up to be callous protofascists and narcissists?
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Yeah, another extended family member quit teaching after two weeks. The extra time and BS was not worth the money
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If you read the article, it’s just since the pandemic. We can’t blame new-fangled technology this time.
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I appreciate the self awareness. If you actually read this, it’s talking about before and after the pandemic, not “these days”.
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Maybe I should have said ‘bargaining,’ in the form of ‘if you behave now you can have X later.’ It’s the way you deal with a rogue nuclear state, not a child who is learning social responsibility.
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Oh yeah I get what you mean, and I’ve seen that happen a lot. I just meant along with that, it’s good people seem to talk more about why something is bad rather than “because I said so,” since it makes it a cooperation instead of a battle.
