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Teachers Across America Are Warning Us About Gen Alpha (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by honesthenery@thelemmy.club to c/FuckTheUSA@lemmy.ca

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Teachers across America are sharing the same disturbing stories about what’s happening inside today’s classrooms. From extreme student behavior and disrespect to teacher burnout, lack of accountability, and frustrated parents, educators say something has fundamentally changed.

In this compilation and reaction, we hear directly from teachers describing their experiences with Gen Alpha students and the growing challenges facing schools today.

Are these isolated incidents, or are we witnessing a much bigger crisis in education?

Watch the teachers’ stories and decide for yourself. If you’re a teacher, share what you’re seeing in your own classroom in the comments.

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[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

There are so many factors here. Ultra-comoetitive school environments, a terrible funding model that disproportionately benefits students from wealthy families and neighborhoods, an "all in" approach to technology, corporate driven testing, textbook, and curriculum development, parenting trends, the breakdown of our wider social ecosystems, internet culture, and teachers that are not being properly trained and compensated to teach, that aren't actually qualified to be educators (teaching is its own skillset, you might be the best person in your field of expertise, that doesn't mean you could teach anyone else).

It's like a perfect storm of bad decisions. It's not the fault of the people trying to actually help these kids for the most part. Every part of the system is designed to fail everyone involved.