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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1p48x0x/can_anyone_confirm_are_modern_students_really/
Turns out that capitalism in decay produces an environment which is actively harmful to human growth and flourishing. Who could have predicted that?
Skeptical about the screenshot. And rest of thread.
The teacher was unable to locate a red object in a kindergarten class?
Isn't that what school is for at this age? Surely its not assumed that the majority of children can spell before going to kindergarten at age 4 or 5.
Here is a kindergarten writing curriculum I found: https://www.wpschools.org/cms/lib/NJ01001331/Centricity/Domain/4/K%20Writing.pdf By the end of November, expectations:
If this is supposedly an inside baseball forum for people who are professional teachers, why are they not discussing the sorts of things which are reasonable goals? I would expect to see stuff about assessment tools/criteria, milestones etc.
I don't believe that phones can cause parents to delay toilet training for years. What is the proposed mechanism for assuming such cost (diapers) and inconvenience (laundry and mess)? How do phones make that less annoying.
I don't buy that this could be ubiquitous among poor people or people who work long hours.
yeah this smells like bullshit to me too.
But don't you teaching toddlers writing is cultural, not natural or to be assumed? That's why sesame street was made as an intervention to teach letters and other things. Not everyone is motivated or knowledgeable on how to teach literacy. Assuming parents are literate in any language much less English. Its November, kids have been in school for 2 months.
And people's names are not exactly equal to each other in difficulty. Some people have many names, or they are extremely long, complex, having clumsily romanized spellings, or unique among their peers. Or their name at home is completely different than name at school. Do you think its fair to expect everyone to pick it up at the same speed given diversity of home environments?
I actually do think at the end of the day, it is the schools job and not the parents to teach writing. And to peek in on general development and offer support. I think phones could be substantially changing how all that is done but this particular post is as you say, bullshit. Somebody's fantasy.
While I agree with you overall I don't think you'll get much traction here with that framing. I doubt any meaningful proportion of parents are failing to spend time with their kids willingly; more likely is that both parents need to work long hours just to make ends meet. That's a broader social failing, not abuse.
Child neglect is abuse though. There are people who refuse to pay attention to or care for their children, my dad was a good example of this. For the rest it is abuse by the system.