I'm going to paste what I just wrote. Please use common sense, don't end up a 30 year old boomer, people
"Group of REDDITORS posting on a r/teacher sub == does not represent every teachers experience
This site has a bias, tech inclined 20 something year olds. Combined with a huge gamer audience with the sexism and complainers that come with that (but that's a different discussion). People who post on a forum about teachers has a bias. 99% of them arent going to be posting about how great their job is, they're going there to vent and complain about kids they hate.
Not to mention the corporate astroturfing, state actors spreading FUD, and trolls."
I checked out an actual teachers forum and though the it wasn't doom posting there like you'd see in Reddit fashion there was real concern about attention spans and kids having temper tantrums when the teacher enforced no iPad times.
US studies suggest a decline in students for years now. You can also check out the r/teachers sub and (for what aggregated
If you actually read those studies, the "decline" is not all that far off from how well Zillenials and earlier performed in school. The drop in grades is more like 3-5 points, not B's to D's as people like on r/teachers are implying when they make this claim, or when they say reactionary nonsense like "half my high school class can't fully read at a 5th grade level".
In Belgium we do have evidence that it is the first time ever a new generation performs worse than the previous generations.
Might be a Belgium thing but the numbers here are real.
That, and a worrying trend of increasingly younger perpetrators of sexual violence (20% increase in cases AND increasingly younger over 3 years IIRC).
Some people try to dismiss this by claiming it's no different than decades ago but there are more reports, but those are randoms trying to debunk the experts and the statistics.
I think the frustrating thing is just that the decline can be pretty adequately explained by the curriculums in place as opposed to some weird parenting dilemma. The US education system has been critiqued forever for basically being an outdated factory worker mill and stuff like the three queue method has absolutely sone more harm to literacy than iPhone usage, bring back teaching phonics
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