Gen Alpha Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are TERRIFIED...

[@emilynam6084]

My mom was a high school teacher who recently retired early because the students she had were insane. They were literally throwing things at her and at each other and telling her stuff like “I can take you in a fight”. And they were mad at her for giving them zeros on assignments, when they never turned anything in to begin with. To the point that parents who know their children are failing are coming after her for giving them the zero they *literally earned.* While it is a teacher’s job to make sure that the student is well enough to move up to the next grade, they cannot help if parents are doing nothing at all to make sure that their kids can handle the next grade. My mom literally was starting to get kids who could not read the most simple words like “sale” or “realize”. Parents need to stop putting kids in front of screens and get them off social media, especially tiktok. It is quite literally ruining their lives! Read to your kids! Take them to the park or a museum! Put them in extra curricular activities! Get them interested in learning! Stop shoving technology into their faces!

[@Lita-bj5ir]

This all are very sad, did in school that kind of behaviour is acceptable? I now understand have blessed we are in Latvia, cause children in Latvia, they all are just children, in my country children counting and reading even before school all ready, before even nursery. In my country children read and count when they just 4 - 5 years old. From zero till 10 for example.

[@momu1672]

I’m from Turkey and there has been an increase in foreign teachers and professors in here, mostly American and English. This might be a reason why.

[@Lita-bj5ir]

In England all children they reading and writing, we in Europe don't have such problems, it is only American think. @@momu1672

[@space_pollution]

My aunt works in an elementary school in California, and the kids she works with, ages 10-12, are INSANE! They cannot perform at their grade levels, they do not pay attention, they get in fights constantly, the school admin refuse to actually discipline any of the students who misbehave, some of them bring knives to class, they constantly talk back to the teachers, they're always on their phones, they're watching videos on their phones with the volume up, and many of them don't even show up to class most of the time. She's struggling with teaching them math because they don't even know basic addition/subtraction and multiplication/division. Their spelling is awful, and their reading comprehension is unbelievable. There are of course a few kids in her class that are performing well and want to learn, but the rest of them make that impossible. She has immigrant children who do not speak a word of English, so she has to do charades to help them learn basic words and short sentences like "push in your chair." She's expected to teach these kids English when she doesn't speak a word of their native languages and she does not specialize in teaching ESL (there's a translator but they aren't there all the time so it's practically pointless to even have one), all while trying to manage a double class of 5th graders and 6th graders because the school doesn't have enough teachers so they do combo classes. My aunt retires in a few years, she has to keep working so she can get her social security which she will need because she gets a measly wage for the work she does.

[@emilynam6084]

@@space_pollution SO MUCH of what your aunt is experiencing happened to my mom and her fellow colleagues. If elementary school kids are like this now, I'm afraid for when they reach high school . The administration in schools are by far the worst people to ever be in education, they shouldn't even have the title for "educator". Even my mom's teacher friends who have only taught for 4-5 years are resigning. Also, let me just say that wages are so small for teachers, for the crap they put up with. My mom was lucky because she was making so much already before retiring. She stayed working as a teacher for so long because she genuinely enjoyed being a teacher and helping her students achieve. Even if she was paid more to stay, it's simply not worth it anymore. Being a teacher is such a thankless task and it stings me how so many stupid braindead people pass it off as babysitting. Or how students get a thrill for giving their teacher a hard time. I don't even know how kids in school today are going to make it later in life let alone college or a job.

[@Swaggyswisscheez]

teachers are telling the truth when they say that "In all their 20 years of teaching they've never seen anything like this"

[@blehblehblehdracula]

Bro these kids are WILD. Like the younger ones especially.

[@TeenWithACarrotIDK]

@@blehblehblehdracula it’s not their fault either. I want to keep hope, but unless we accept that our technology is becoming a hindrance and is damaging us, we are fucked.

[@blakasmurf]

IDIOCRACY Predicted this!!!!!!!!!! 😅🤣😂😅🤣😂😅🤣😂

[@BeanieBuoy]

i've seen what it's like now during a psychology study for my school

[@joshstieneker4615]

​@blakasmurf A movie that never meant to be so true, but it is.... I teach high school special education, and I know I won't make it 30 years in this profession at this point. Things will likely get worse too. That's what scares me the most. I fear for the future of our country.

[@svyatoyaleksnevskiy]

Once they've grown, people will blame them for not knowing how to read and write, for not knowing how to behave socially. At what point will we finally start holding parents and society accountable?

[@Doomzdeh]

The issue is that the schools have cowered and let the parents completely take over. Saw it coming when corporal punishment left the schools. Parents basically said that they didn’t want the schools disciplining their kids and that they’d do it themselves. The issue with that is that many parents don’t care enough to do it or don’t know how to do it to make any lessons stick. And it has left the schools in a spot where they get screamed at for disciplining the kids, thus causing school administrations to leave the teachers to get abused in their classrooms.

[@paradoxzee6834]

Considering people blame Gen Z and Millennials that they cannot find a job or a good apartment. Sorry we are just living in a world others set up for us

[@Military.FutureUrbanCamo]

​@@paradoxzee6834yes thanks I am a high school graduate I'm a virgin lonely feeling,never worked yet and kinda broke

[@lettuceman9439]

its both sides really, School specially public School are less incentivized and more politicized with both the Department and the Parents constantly at each others throat, With the Exception of Specialized Schools (Crams and Apprenticeships) and Religious School (Mainly Catholic) degrading quality of Education in the US has been a long time coming with the original workforce i.e Old Teachers having been phased out and High Quality Foreign Teachers (Those specifically from the Philippines, Korea and Japan) has been bought out by Private Schools or by Rich Schools who can afford it, Curriculum has been bloated with very "leisure" subjects and Disciplinary method has been both ineffective and Abusive. All of these Factors directly hinged on the Cooperation and Trust within the Educational Department and the Parents which due to said Factors and those outside of it had worsen Teacher-Parent Relationship that Homeschooling had returned with a Vengeance while Religious Schools have a flood of students from rather Secular parents and Specialized Schools became so profitable that they now have become private Schools themselves. A Certain Trust and Expectation is given to both, One is due to Money Incentives while the other being Religious is particularly Homogenous and Expected to be rather Strict (Nuns are Scary tbh)@@Doomzdeh

[@LiamDerWandrer]

@brucekim-jm1rl By birthdate or by human generation count? Those are not the same. The current seventh graders are a rather mixed bag of gen Z ending and gen Alpha beginning.

[@S0ME0NETO-LOVE]

The ballet teacher… Poor girl she sounded like she was honestly was going to cry!

[@xhimibeqiri4405]

Come to the Balkans, there is more discipline and the kids are just better overall.

[@isa88889]

i adored my ballet teacher as a kid i wanted to be good at ballet like her and thought she was so cool. it's so sad it's not like that anymore

[@mattjohnson1775]

Shes going thru the realization that this is the END OF THE CINILIZATION OF MANKIND. WHOS GOING TO RUN BUSINNESS IN 20 TO 30 YEARS FROM NOW? NO ONE THAT CANT FUCKING READ AND PARENTS CANT EVEN COMPREHEND WHAT THEY ARE BEING TOLD!!! ITS ALOT WORSE THAN....GONNA CRY. YOU SOUND LIKE YOU DONT COMPREHEND THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS.

[@CharlesWheeler-r4u]

The solution is simple. The parents must sign a waiver permitting corporal punishment or the child is not allowed in the class.

[@Soldrakenn]

Leaving children alone on the internet/ social media is like dumping them downtown alone at night. THEY SHOULD NOT BE THERE UNSUPERVISED!!!

[@tired_manatee]

PREACH There are so parallels between the two. There are rude people, people who are absolute creeps, people who spreads lies and false information, the list GOES ON! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t leave your kids in either place unsupervised. Parental controls on a device are the same as a personal guard for your child downtown. Supervising your child while they’re on a device is like instead of sending them downtown alone, you’re there with them to protect them, and I don’t think many people understand that.

[@PancakeEnthusiast45]

as someone who was left alone on the internet unsupervised i do whole heartly agree, not to be dramatic but im pretty sure it ruined my future, parents should really pay attention to their children while on the internet because it is such a dangerous place....

[@P1nkG7ts]

I was raised on the internet (I could read and write though), I have never been the same. PLEASE supervise your kids on their devices, you never know what rabbit holes they might go down.

[@PancakeEnthusiast45]

@@P1nkG7ts Fr like I think Im pretty lucky bc I can function at my grade lvl and maybe even a bit higher but still I have never been the same and never will be…

[@alaricvis09]

I remember the limited amount of things you could see with dial up. Today, almost every 9 year old has seen a gangbang in 4k.

[@beepboop97]

This is all the parents fault. Parent your children. Love them. Connect with them. Teach them.

[@juliaboskamp9666]

It more than just the parents the lock down was during the time of there life you learn to make friends and instead of learning in class it was on zoom and the school system doesn't help them either, we as in society have failed the children

[@lizf1353]

😂 ya it has nothing to do with the teachers and states 🙄 no need to look at real testing around the nation. No reason to question why a B rated school in SC has only 30% of kids preforming at grade level but in maine 75%+ in a B rated school are preforming at grade level. 😂

[@Wombatsgone]

I think the issue is that the parents love their kids too much to the point that they refuse that the child should experience hardship, so they keep getting passed up grades

[@vibinglemon6156]

@@lizf1353 Maybe it is partially the school system's fault, but gen z kids were operating under nearly the same schooling system and yet there's no crisis like this with our grades is there? So the problem isn't one-sided and it DEFINITELY isn't mainly on the school or teachers. This problem starts with the parents not wanting to act like damn parents.

[@SavageMinnow]

​@@vibinglemon6156there has been a "crisis" for every generation since our grandparents. It was "Johnny can't read" in the 80s and "no child left behind" in the 90s. The things that people are saying about these kids are the same things they said about us. The call is coming from inside the house babes

[@inyeekaribi4913]

There is something incredibly creepy about a child without a phone twiddling his thumbs pretending he’s holding a phone….

[@Drebolaskan]

First time I've seen this, it honestly made me sad for that kid and the world he's gonna grow up in

[@ainamedoliver]

The thing that really made me horrified was a video of a toddler who was ASLEEP, and the toddler was scrolling in their sleep... Guys, I don't think I'm gonna make it 😭

[@LexolotlTheLegend]

One day I'm probably just gonna be fidgeting around with my fingers and someone's gonna think that I'm pretending to hold a phone

[@eryuu4016]

Right? I thought that was just a thing in a cartoon I saw

[@JonwithnoH0823]

I type so much that when I was grounded from using my laptop as a teenager that my fingers would twitch after a few days I ended up picking up a paper and pen just to get back to writing just to get it out of my system I’m 30

[@Lana_Starz]

I wasn’t raised by technology I was raised by creativity

[@RyanDalzell-lm3jo]

I’m a Gen Z kid from 2004. I was jealous of my friends because they had phones and social media in 6th grade and played Call of Duty and other such games at that time. I was frustrated with my parents, more so my Mom because she was more technologically inclined compared to my Dad. Now that I’m older I realized that I was raised right as I now look back on the cesspool that social media is now and was back then. I can’t even imagine the thought processes of these parents giving their children iPads and iPhones the instant they come out of the womb. Gen Alpha is screwed.

[@mikailawayne7297]

Hey, fellow Gen Z from 2003. I was always jealous too because I didn’t get a phone until I could drive. But now, I’m very grateful. I had a senior level reading comprehension in sixth grade because all I did was read. I’m so grateful I wasn’t given access to phones at a young age

[@alphahead2741]

Same here as well. I'm also a Gen Z from 2006. As much as I remember I don't get in touch with phones too much on my childhood. Well I do, except, there the ones with buttones on and I used to play games in there. However, my parents do limit my usage on technology like how my dad told me to use the PC for only 1 hour. Sometimes I overpass that limit, but It didnt affect me much as those Gen Alphas. All in all, due to my limit on technology I became a person who loves other activites than to overuse our phones for random stuff. I still do tho, but I'm not stupid to think.

[@justarandomsquid3568]

I am at this sort of age level and I am in an advanced class and I can confirm that a large percentange of my class has Family Link etc. That is the secret to successful parenting

[@alphahead2741]

@@justarandomsquid3568 I Agree with you. Parenting is the key to have a healthy childhood and care. Those parents who give them tablets and phones to their kids are nothing but neglect and laziness with parenting. Maybe they should not give birth to a child in the first place if your to tired and lazy to start a family.

[@winniethepooht5776]

Hey, fellow 2004 baby here! I also was jealous of my cousins with their shiny iPods and phones. I used to be upset my parents got rid of our cable tv. I used to resent the fact that my parents didn't let me have a phone until I was 14. (I only had a tablet, and around 12, my cousin's used iPod touch up until that point.) I used to get so upset everytime my dad looked through my devices and at my messages, I thought he was invading my privacy! Now I understand why. I'll never forget my dad telling me, "We didn't get rid of cable just because it was expensive. We got rid of it because every day, you'd sit in front of TV just watching the screen. You didn't do anything else. But when we got rid of cable, you started reading more, you started writing books, you started painting. Your creativity was stunted by watching the TV constantly. We got rid of it for you." Now that I'm older and I see these kids with ZERO conversation and comprehension skills, I thank my parents. I thank them that they made sure to teach me how to read and comprehend, how to converse, and how to be creative. My heart goes out to all these kids who's parents were lazy and let screens raise them.

[@slenderaftonOfficial]

The show, “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” Could be a real problem for most 7th graders ngl.

[@arielraya5979]

XD I was actually smarter than the 5th graders, we were in a combo class n I kept answering questions that the 5th graders were supposed to answer.

[@hexagaming5111]

as a 15 year old boy i didnt even know the name of that song i still dont know because her voice was shaking and i dont wanna know.

[@EnbyBee]

No the 5th graders dumb asl ~Someone who recently graduated grade 7

[@Shikari-666a2]

Don't attack me like that 😪

[@giveducko]

As a 7th grader, im only better in math (my English is appaling and i’m dying but it’s cuz of my teacher)

[@uranian-Umbra]

My sister is gen alpha and I JUST WANT TO GIVE A FORMAL THANK-YOU TO MY PARENTS. She is brilliant and reads at like an 8th grade level (she’s a 6th grader) and she’s more mature than most adults tbh. It’s crazy what happens when parents actually care for their kids and don’t throw iPads at them because they want to keep their kids distracted.

[@peatato]

I'm proud of your sister!

[@rebeccacollins6625]

Love to hear this!

[@j.j2998]

That's good to hear

[@raikaak]

Same here, very proud of her

[@TomatoSooup]

thank god, i’m proud of her

[@ThatGirlWhosUnoriginal]

I’m 12, and I can do this. Information goes into my head. I recognize this. My social studies classmates, they cannot sustain any information. The teacher reads a PARAGRAPH in the text book. “Tell me one fact please, (name)” “Uhhh. I don’t know.” HOW??

[@marcosrojas345]

Fr, thats happening to me every year, i even found people that couldnt do a 1st GRADE QUESTION

[@ThatGirlWhosUnoriginal]

@ EXACTLY

[@fatemajahra1371]

I’m a Bangladeshi who moved to America, I was genuinely shocked to see how easy American education is. I was confused whether Bengali studies are just hard or if American studies are extremely easy.

[@Zectifin]

I moved from a state that was pretty good for education to one that isn't great for education and it was like going back 2 grade levels. Everything was so easy and they put me in honors classes immediately. The state of education here is shit and every state doing what they want is even worse.

[@greyskymy]

If anything, I will never continue my studies in America. The educational system truly terrifies me.

[@lealmelisa]

It's crazy how low the level in America is.

[@MariaRodriguez-dx6sm]

If you come from a place with decent education, America is ridiculously easy. It makes me wonder how the hell this country can still be productive with half of the adults being functionally illiterate

[@Wind_116]

The American education system is so bad. My friend did a exchange there and had to repeat the school year when she came back because they didn’t teach her enough there

[@ariane.clarke]

I am a 7th grader. I just wanted to say that this is entirely the fault of social media, you are completely right. My parents only let me have KZbin, but my mom is older, she's 53. It's easier for me to avoid the trap because I have a clear goal of what I want to achieve when I'm older, I want to be an F1 engineer and that takes loads of studying. Some kids my age are just lost, and that's not their faults, it's the fault of the adults. I live in Europe and do the IB, so I'm sure it's worse in America, but still, the parents of these kids have to do something, this is going to get worse with Generation Beta. It's turning into an epidemic. I have kids in my class who are super social and nice, but do really poorly in school. I try to help when I can, by tutoring maths to return the favour of being kind to me and including me (I have asperger's and I worry about being left out). Also in class I help out because the maths teacher can't help 30 kids at once. But for god's sake, I'M 13! I shouldn't have to be the one doing the extra teaching. Thank you for bringing light to this, it's a problem all over western society.

[@BeeMisses]

I'm also a 7th grader and I have social media and do well in school and have a clear goal in life , ig maybe other kids focus so much on social media and neglect school and end up failing btw I also do IB as well

[@Zectifin]

I feel really sorry for your generation. I got myspace when it was brand new and I was 19. social media didnt exist until I was an adult. Not every kid is gonna have a bad time with social media. I used the internet to look up cool stuff about space and other science info and stuff about pokemon. There are kids that will do fine and they will use the internet to learn. Others will just watch stupid bullshit and thats where the parents need to come in to guide them in the right direction.

[@BimboCommentary]

Less to do with social media but the parents who don't be parents about it. It shouldn't be up to you to help your classmates because if they are struggling why aren't the parents doing something about it, and being proactive in the child's life, enough to to you need to sit with them (device free) and help... The problem is modern parents think phones and iPads are good enough to be the parent for your kid. So the parent is social media.

[@blackcat3299]

Yout comment is so well written! I'm glad to see that there are kids that get it and haven't fallen into the social media trap! Stay true to yourself and keep your eye on your goals. I wish you the best of luck in your journey to becoming a engineer!

[@whims6278]

You go babe! Question- do you feel left out at all or ostracized for not having other social media? I SO dont want to let my daughter have tiktok or anything when she gets older but I don't want her to feel left out or weird and I guess I just wonder how it feels for you?

[@nikkicooper5256]

My 11 year old son can't read yet, but he's autistic and is actually putting forth the effort to learn. And he's not disrespectful as hell. I'm so sorry to this poor ballet teacher. No one deserves to be treated like that by a child or a grown ass adult

[@mittag983]

Your son is special needs but now even kids who aren't special needs can't read at 13 year old

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

100th like

[@VoidDoesVideos]

i'm happy he actually wants to read! I hope he's doing alr

[@fisheyefish]

i'm an autistic teen, and i understand that struggle. hope he's doing alright!

[@Thefallenangel1923]

Bless his heart

[@PinkToe6]

DUMBING DOWN CURRICULUM. This. I knew I wasn’t crazy. I prepped my kid for school and had him come home from kindergarten and was baffled that they were teaching him what I had already taught him at the age of 2. TWOO. By first grade I ended up pulling him out of school cause he was learning absolutely nothing. He was stressed out everyday after school and I would ask what he’s so stressed about and he constantly ranted about how nobody listens and there’s multiple kids in the class that take up all of teachers time and are disrespectful. He now is in 1st grade but is homeschooled and reads at 5th grade level and up.

[@TH4T-SP4RK]

Istg my class is so stupid when it came to a substitute. THEY CALLED A TEXTBOOK MONKEYLAND AND SAID OUR TEACHER BURNT THE MATH BOOKS-. And they were being horrible :/

[@idkanymoore]

Ive never been more proud of a first grader.

[@catherinecampbell1215]

It’s not the iPads. It’s them watching mindless programming on the iPads. I was at my aunt’s house for Christmas and her friend’s six year old was using her iPad to play a Hello Kitty cooking game. She was showing me how she was cutting up fruits and veggies and frosting desserts. She also had an excellent vocabulary.

[@starryskies0]

I also played a hello kitty cooking game when I was younger

[@anastasia.noelle]

awww i love this

[@smallxplosion9546]

I have a couple friends who had iPads when they were younger but because their parents actually parented them correctly they turned out just fine (I didn’t get my first device until 11 or my first phone until halfway through 14)

[@topgunaudio7983]

Sad thing is they are not even computer literate, just button pushers. I grew up with programming and early electronic devices in my health care work, had to know how to do it mostly manually and read the information for diagnosis, current machines are automatic and mostly give the diagnosis. So maybe in the future we just need people who can push buttons as AI will do the thinking - so change the education system to accommodate zombies!

[@hellohaveagoodday]

Exactly, people rarely understand that its the content. They don't want to do anything without the iPad? It's sad but ipad learning games. Even semi educational ones. I remember playing cooking mama nonstop for hours but I always read above my level.

[@Ilikewofandwarriorcats]

“Raise children alongside technology, never with it” - A wise man

[@memealade2421]

Who said that quote, just asking! ❤🙏

[@Ilikewofandwarriorcats]

@@memealade2421 It was someone from another of her videos but I forgot the username 😔

[@memealade2421]

@@Ilikewofandwarriorcatsit’s ok!

[@RYCH3]

*wise woman

[@DyslexicChiahuahua]

I could not have said it better myself. I grew up on lots of technology (I mean I played Portal 2 on the Xbox 360), but it had never taken over me. I got my first phone when I was young (8 maybe?) but that was before all of this went down and I mostly played games on it anyway. Anyway, back to my original point. If you become a parent and you allow your child to have a phone, you *need* to supervise the use of it. My parents are pretty lenient with me, but again, I’m a goody-two-shoes and I tend to play games more than I watch videos. So, even if it’s just laying down a few ground rules, trust me, it will help. Edit: Don’t trust me *that* much because I don’t really know what I’m talking about lol

[@summerm4911]

my heart broke a bit listening to the ballet teacher. I volunteer with kids that are gen alpha and some of the stuff they're talking about genuinely horrify me. had a kid (who was about 10 or 11) ask me what my favourite type of p*rn was. I was speechless. he ran off before I'd even processed what I could say to him

[@ChronicAdvocate]

That's scary and so sad, it's like they don't even know how to be kids anymore.

[@SlaySlay-qm7qo]

That’s honestly so heartbreaking.Someone their age shouldn’t even have a CLUE as to what that is.

[@Cakeisyummmyyyyy]

I’m sorry p0rn???? My generation is to put it kindly… fvked 😊

[@OhnoitzMonday]

THAT'S JUST.. HORRIBLE

[@cloudy_rose3115]

The fact that in Year 6 (5th grade for Americans) I knew SEVERAL people who watch P*rn. I'm going into Year 9 (8th grade) but I know people who still cannot read, write and do basic math. This is a massive problem.

[@JessicaStark-m2t]

I remember as a kid that if you talked back or was at all disrespectful, you either got your rear end tore up, smacked in the back of the head, or even told to do yard work. Being disrespectful was not tolerated. I think that's what a lot of kids may be missing

[@JessicaStark-m2t]

Also, if your a Christian or not, I think this generation needs to be prayed for

[@elderlycatpatriot]

I always tell people this: "It's really funny how the first generation to grow up without being spanked is so disrespectful. It's almost as though it's not child abuse." Ticks some people off, but there's no way to refute it. It's factually correct 🤷🏻‍♀

[@ElPot-ei3qi]

@@elderlycatpatriotbut that’s not the issue it’s not that they weren’t physically abused it’s simply that they are emotionally neglected they’re parents js don’t teach them or talk to them how are they supposed to learn to read when their parents have never read to them or even had a full conversation with them they can’t develop basic language functions when the only people willing to talk to them are children their age or younger

[@GetWellSoonR.E.M.]

That’s not the issue. What the parents are doing is emotional and physical neglect. Hitting kids is abuse, but so is this neglectful behavior. They’re not actually engaging with the children. Neither of these approaches properly engages a child’s brain and helps them develop.

[@serys2413]

@@elderlycatpatriot Physically hurting a child is, by definition, abuse. You can't say that you're factually correct when you clearly don't even know how to google the definition. It's entirely possible to raise disciplines children without physically hurting them or yelling at them, you just don't care to actually do any research. You care more about convenient and quiet children than ones that are actually healthy and feel safe around their guardians.

[@vertanishock7900]

The answer is, neglect is causing this. Not physical neglect but emotional distance. They don't know how to use things like apps as tools. My sister's friends were AMAZED when she brought out a book without pictures and told them it was her favorite at the moment. THEY ARE 11-13!! It HURTS me so much.

[@JustnormalOofficial]

Oh dear, the fact they were awestruck by seeing a book with no pictures scares me, and i'm also a 13 y/o who can actually read for longer than 5 mins. It scares me how other people in my class (the 01 or 8th grade regents class) can't even do that, and they can't even be quiet for 30 seconds. I feel bad for our art teacher, because she has to endure that behavior, and cranked up to 10 with screaming, play fighting, and so much more at 8 am. Earlier the school year we were learning about reproductive systems, and ever since that unit ended, everybody just started making the most inappropriate jokes you've ever heard. It's concerning the 13 to 14 year old would even be saying that, and this is coming from me, a 13 year old. I kinda want to be homeschooled from now on, but I know that's not happening because my parents don't have enough money for it. So I guess I just have to sit here and endure all of these things that are going on in my class.

[@Rat_8868]

Uhm… what? I am in 6th grade, and my first encounter with s book without pictures was in KINDERGARTEN. Furthermore, to pass 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and so on you MUST read non-picture books.

[@DefaultFlame]

@@JustnormalOofficial That is absolutely terrible. Stay strong, and when you have a moment tell your teachers, the good ones anyway, what you like about the subjects they teach and that you appreciate the effort they put in. I can't imagine how horrible it is being a teacher as things are currently, but I know that just a little appreciation goes a long way.

[@mybirdsmells]

@@JustnormalOofficialPleaseee not even homeschooling would save you from these breeds of children. I’m homeschooled and the kids were REALLY bad. Mostly when I was in 7th grade, in 8th, not so much. But still, even in online middle school the kids were terrifying. Still objectively better than in-person school. (Now that i’ve finished writing this, i realize not all homeschooling options involve having classmates, I know some are independent studies. But still a possibility of having those students.)

[@flightlesslord2688]

christ

[@PruneJuice100]

14:40 "I thought they had teachers that know how to handle kids" They do. What they're unequipped to handle are goblins.

[@DumplingDoodle]

man, not even. i was a goblin child and i was dealt with. the difference is when goblin children are left to fester on the internet with other goblin children. and then you get a horde of goblin children trying to raid your village, and no one needs that.

[@SuperMeatHands]

​@@DumplingDoodle What doesn't help is that children learn pretty quickly that there is nothing an adult can do to them is they misbehave or worse. Kids know that they can say and do whatever they want and an adult is powerless, as all a child has to do threaten to call the police or make a fake claim/accusation against said adult and the adult will stop trying to make them behave or stop what they are doing. There needs to be something in place that allows parents and adults to regain some power from kids. Of course that is easier said than done because as soon as someone tries to float that idea politically, they will likely face being cancelled or having their career destroyed as a result.

[@katscardsandgames]

School board be like "I see, here are ipads for your whole school with minecraft, roblox, instagram, and tiktok pre-installed. You're welcome".

[@abcdefg5459]

Put diversity over education and get rid of math and history requirements, and you get this.

[@DumplingDoodle]

@@abcdefg5459 wouldn’t be a yt comment section without an unnecessarily political oversimplification of complicated issues

[@btm380]

A lot of people in Silicone Valley limit their kids to 1hr a day with tablets/ electronic devices. They know.

[@yourdreams2440]

They created it, so they know how harmful it truly is. Yet, they have no problems promoting it to the general public and put in no effort to encourage moderation. Borderline evil.

[@efugee]

Sili-CON. The element. Sili-CONE Valley would be the place between Kim Kardashian's Ass Cheeks.

[@poptatochisps342]

Yeah, that's what my family did. I was a bit upset when the first introduced it, but I'm grateful now. I got my first phone at 15, and it was one of "those" phones without social media or games. Parents need to monitor their kids.

[@pworcelaindoll]

@@yourdreams2440 it's not their problem to babysit kids that aren't theirs. it's the parents fault. blame the parents.

[@yourdreams2440]

@@pworcelaindoll Tobacco companies are required to put warning labels on their products, they are not allowed to advertise, and there's numerous anti-tobacco ad campaigns discouraging people from using it. These devices are clearly extremely addictive, especially to young children. There should be ad campaigns and warnings telling parents to limit their children's device usage. Most parents do not realize how addictive these devices are and they aren't responsible for doing the research to find out. Sure, good parents will, but it's not the responsibility of the average citizen to discover scientific information. That responsibility is on the companies and government to properly communicate it.

[@Kennarooski]

My sister got a phone at 2 years old. I warned my mother but she didn’t listen and know my sister is literally slapping us talking back screaming and getting exposed to inappropriate stuff

[@xhimibeqiri4405]

Then she doesnt want to raise her, at the point you are in... just leave her for adoption.

[@JakurtyKulgin]

Years later your mother will complain about why her little daughter such obnoxious peace of shit,not wanting to know that it was her fault.

[@Xilibrius]

As someone who worked for his local school district one of the biggest problems is the fact that kids now are becoming more and more violent towards other students and staff and there is a fair amount of parents that do nothing and don't care about how disruptive and dangerous their children can be. The stress dealing with children/teenagers who will try to physically fight you at the drop of a hat is insane.

[@Random-mc7yt]

We got tired of being walked on and abused for being a certain age in the past, and as we become more confident get past dumb phobes and bating things for no reason, we want more respect, the only way 2 get buy without being a toy 2 an adult is 2 fight back, the only way 2 avoid nonsense is 2 be a ticking time bomb.

[@Voliti0N]

I’m pretty sure most schools have a Zero Tolerance policy when it comes to those sort of situations. If they do not then they need to implement one… talking about tik-tockin time bombs. Cause this is the path to further us as a species and overall on our day to day societal level? Neither kids nor adults have all the answers, but violence and abuse are not the way. Nor will they ever be

[@NathanForrest-yc5kv]

It’s mostly blacks who fight teachers.

[@kierstenhale763]

I worked for a behavioral health service that got the kids that couldn’t be in school because of how violent they were. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

[@whooville]

​@@Random-mc7ytYour comment is just a great example of why kids don't deserve internet privileges. You can't even spell, child. Go back to school and leave the device alone. You think you're a "toy" to the adult? You aren't a toy. Toys are fun. You are a person who needs to BE EDUCATED, and clearly what mommy and daddy are doing at home ISN'T working out for you. Humble yourself, sit the hell down in class, and quit thinking you're a victim. Otherwise, you might end up working fast food forever, and nobody wants that- and that's assuming you can keep your attitude in check at a job so you don't get fired. Hate to be that guy, but grow up.

[@tomatosoup1304]

What's worse are these new teachers are genuinely trying so hard. They're choosing to become the type of teachers they wanted as children and now these new parents are refusing to discipline and handle their children, making it difficult for these teachers to do their jobs

[@a.s.3676]

What if "discipline" (aggressiveness) is the main problem. Edit: teachers are for the pupils, not the pupils for the teachers... Teachers cannot force motivation; if they are skillful in teaching but people still aren't interested, we should find out the cause. Someone should consult a philosopher and ask: what is wrong in our SYSTEM? Actually, sir Ken Robinson knows the answer... Of course there are also big issues with the philosophy of mind, psychology & parenting styles, but the "science" is not ready for big changes yet.

[@Weldedhodag]

@@a.s.3676 Discipline is not the same thing as being aggressive. Given, sure, children do respond better to positive reinforcement, but a good parent knows when to put their foot down and take away their toy/send them to their room for awhile. Straight up when I was a kid and started getting crabby, my parents would tell me to go take a nap. Guess what I do now as an adult if I start feeling exhausted and its putting me in a bad mood? I guess I'm saying that at the same time, any kind of discipline should also instill a lesson ex. Care for yourself before you become bitter towards others

[@a.s.3676]

@@Weldedhodag I think people "need" discipline when things have already gone wrong. In practice, many people get upset/aggressive when they feel they have "failed" to prevent things they don't like (kids misbehaving)... I don't believe punishing a child for adult's own features/social inabilities is the firstmost solution. I do think teaching a child to go away if he/she is unhappy with the adult's behavior is better than being aggressive, but even better would be to face the child's negative feelings without an urge to shut him/her down. So in my opinion, punishing is just a way of escaping responsibility as a parent... ironically!

[@Weldedhodag]

@@a.s.3676 You know it is possible to both self reflect and discipline your child at the same time right? Like, if I had a kid and they got caught shoplifting, I would ask them why they thought it was OK and self reflect on how I could help them be better in the future, but I would still ground them because they need to learn actions have consequences as well.

[@OverbossZero]

@@Weldedhodag Oh, I was the one who got The Belt. Took one whack of that sucker on my butt and I was DONE. (my personal idea) I know people think this is assault on a child, but honestly, if it is used just to say "this is inexecusable behavior" and they only get like...1 - 3 whacks in a private area like their home, then honestly? I don't see a problem. Something has to teach them, and actions speak louder than words apparently, so when your "NO" isn't doing any good, then...Bring out The Belt. Of course, I'm not saying to whack them for every time they say "shut up" or "I hate you", but when they start tearing up stuff or acting super out of line like these kids and that dance teacher, then you're clearly not teaching them how to respect ANY adult. Tantrums can turn into full out destruction of a store, to a holdup, to an outright massacre. I know it's super extreme to put this out there, but if your kids get away with screaming and yelling, imagine how it'll be when you're 80 and frail and they're 20 and big -- especially if you never enforced the rules. Do you want them to LITERALLY "get away with murder?" Let that sink in.

[@sabrewinchester]

Remember those street interviews of full grown adults that couldn't do basic math or point out their own state on a map? Well, those people had kids and this is the result 😬

[@laizulaie]

slayy that’s so real

[@GentaroYumeno]

Most of those videos are cut out to make people stupid lmao

[@sabrewinchester]

@@GentaroYumeno these kids are proof tho

[@GentaroYumeno]

@@sabrewinchester Yes you're right! It's a MASSIVE crisis in the UK too!

[@ngarcia103]

Or point out a country on a basic world map, if you saw that Jimmy Kimmel segment.

[@JustinRogers-w3h]

I used to work at a summer camp. One day I was given a short story to read to my 4th grade campers, the story was only one page long, and I could not get through one sentence without the kids getting distracted or interrupting. It took me 45 minutes to read HALF of ONE paragraph. When I tried to have a discussion with them about the story they didn't even know what it was about. I had to sit down and have a discussion with them about respect, and they couldn't even sit still long enough for me to call them out for it. It took me longer to get through the discussion on respect then it did to read less than half of a single page. I told them we should have gone to dinner like everyone else did half an hour ago, and they all agreed there was a problem and seemed to feel bad about it, all while they continued to interrupt and be disrespectful. I feel so bad for the kids because they know there's a problem but their brains are just so far gone that most of them seem unfixable unless some major change happens in their lives.

[@einahsirro1488]

Gen X English teacher here, retired in 2020. WE TRIED TO WARN YOU!!! WE TRIED! I WAS SCREAMING ABOUT THIS IN 2010!!

[@thepickledpixie9052]

We did. I'm out too.

[@lunchbox1553]

Do you think it's also an issue that teachers and schools are not adapting to the technology that is available?

[@cutecats532]

​@@lunchbox1553??? Society would need to value education and fund it for that to be a thing and there are deranged adults who want that funding for religious schools.

[@lunchbox1553]

@@cutecats532 I think society or at least those who are in a position to change things do value it, it's just that I feel like too many people are stuck in an uncreative box and that's why the education system is not going to get any better. Like those who went through a flawed education system are the ones who will eventually have newer generations go through the same thing, and they won't even realize it because the education system already failed those future teachers.

[@einahsirro1488]

No, all the schools I was in were falling over themselves purchasing iPads and tech for the kids. Although it's true they never want to spend money for an onsite tech person to keep the darn things working properly. The amount of money wasted this way is appalling, but that's a whole other story.@@lunchbox1553

[@thegwreth]

As a very early Gen Alpha, I've noticed so many changes at my school. The kids are all screaming about their level 9 gyats and I'm so confused. I try to work as hard as possible, and parents and teachers act surprised when I show them the most basic respect. It's really disturbing how tiktok and instagram are just rotting peoples brains. I just hope we can get out of this mess. I do my best to stay off social media and just focus on my studies and I hope others will realize this and do it too.

[@azzy1130]

Props to you, limit your internet especially when you're below 8th grade, and don't dive too deep into the internet if you can. While there are some nice corners, this place can be disgusting. It's filled with people's mostly unfiltered thoughts, after all.

[@no_dojo8056]

Good job kiddo! Of course, not all of the discrepancies weigh on your classmates shoulders; the parents are at fault for the main part since this is learned behaviour and knowing that the classmates around them are also behaving this way makes them think this behaviour is okay. Since I’m Gen Z, I’ll also do my best to teach my future children to be behaved and respectful to others and focus on education rather than the TikTok and twitter. Because I started using technology more seriously in my early teens, now that I’m adult I can remember and recognize the difference between my childhood and now. We know what it’s like, so I hope my generation will follow as well and correct the wrongs of parenting.

[@seraphic.ৎ]

As a gen alpha, I literally did one simple basic question and my teachers mind was blown.. this shows that some gen alphas really need to take a break of KZbin and go outside to an actual childhood.

[@fizziep0p696]

You’re an extremely well spoken teenager!! And you can spell. 😌10/10

[@tinatheobald3412]

You are doing good, dude. My mom doesn't let me use tiktok, and I am SO glad I'm not allowed to. And the think about the kids yelling gyats is insane.

[@elephantnarwal]

As a Gen-Z teen watching this, I'm BAFFLED to see that 7th graders can't spell simple words like "though". How can they not know who a main character is in a 4 PARAGRAPH STORY. This is WILD and parents need to do better to raise these children. I hope that when Gen Z become parents they can raise their children correctly and be stricter with them regarding screen time

[@ellaaitken3966]

I’m also a Gen-Z teen and I want to say that I also am not the best speller but that’s just because it’s something that I’m a slow learner about. But that doesn’t mean I’m not taking info in, it just takes longer to stick (mainly because I have like story’s in my head 24/7). But dare I say, hearing this makes me feel smarter but also makes me feel so sad that family members who I’m very close with are having to deal with people who are addicted to tech and will never know what it means to enjoy when the sun comes up and when to spend time with people you care about is just sad. I’m also a writer as my favourite subject in school is English so I do need auto correct when planning and writing my story’s but I don’t use it for everything. I use a notebook also to draw and plan out characters and plain plot points of story’s and yes sometimes I need help spelling a word or to but then usually get it right every other time. People often ask me “why do you use a notebook and a device to plan your story’s?”, It’s because I don’t want to lose the ability it write on my own without a device because I’m very much aware that my generation could be one last ones to ever see the colour of the sky with needing a screen and just using my head. Which is depressing…

[@melonman2225]

​@@ellaaitken3966the voices in my head keeps narrating every moment of my life They need to stop

[@ellaaitken3966]

@@melonman2225 I’m with you on that, but that’s just because so I don’t screw up and regret it later

[@berrysnowyboy5251]

As a Gen Z adult, fully agreed

[@melonman2225]

@@berrysnowyboy5251 your lesbian sonic pfp says it all

[@SquimblyMoth]

Hi! Gen Alpha here! Just wanna say this is very much true! I have adhd and am on medication to focus, I have had to explain to the girl in an advanced class how to find the area of a circle which we were taught about a week ago… She could’ve asked the teacher.. he definitely would’ve helped her, he does tutoring during lunch period. God bless these teachers man, i’m sick of my generation I don’t know how they do it :/ (I know this was posted like ten months ago but I feel the need to share this because it’s just sad)

[@Oopey.Goopey]

Fellow AAAAAAAAHHHDHD Diagnosed person (not on meds) and had to explain to a 5th grader the difference between Your and You're. Lowkey mind boggling how this crap happened in less than 5 years or so

[@youknowthedrill2164]

its possible that girl has dyscalculia. Im a grown ass adult and have severe dyscalculia so i can only do elementary level math despite doing lots of research and practice, math never gets into my head.

[@gothgirlenjoyer69]

Mid to late Gen Z here (2007, currently 17), I'd like to say good on you for helping her and not having a massive attitude. You remind me of what I wanted to be when I was younger. Good on you. I've heard Gen A in my own country having some issues. Nothing overly publicized as seen in the US due to me living in Eastern Europe. However some of the shit I saw and heard.. my god Anyways, good luck with school. Stay safe bud.

[@trick1962]

As a member of Gen Z, I’ve found that my generation has been very outspoken about this issue. We can recognize how social media and technology has harmed us, and now Gen Alpha has it even worse. As a senior, I’ve already noticed a change in the freshmen at my school. My class certainly weren’t angels at that age, but a lot of these freshmen seem to have no regard for social norms and have no maturity. And I think it’s only going to get worse.

[@dillpickel6767]

Is freshman are still not gen z the seventh graders are the start of gen z. Us freshman are 2008-2009 and gen alpha starts at 2011 and above just saying

[@fam3at762]

@@dillpickel6767 most generations have blurry start/end lines but it's generally agreed that gen alpha starts in 2013

[@Glimmer-b3u]

I fear for future generations :C

[@soraokami5569]

It's getting bad some of the freshman in extra classes (optional courses) are spending more time in the office then in class due to cursing out the teacher

[@Sorakeyblademaster37]

Sci-fi dystopian writers really were right about the dangers of technology. Cyberpunk isn't about aesthetics, attitude, or radical politics; it's when technology becomes overwhelming to the point of being _invasive_ and mankind becomes subservient to it rather than the other way around.

[@a_Aurora_a]

As a 7th grader, it is insane to me how badly kids my age struggle to form simple sentences, and/or be polite. And it's affecting kids including myself who at least used to have potential. I was reading at around a 2nd grade level in kindergarten. I'm now only reading at an 8th. It's because since I am ahead and don't need any help, all the teachers focused their attention on practically everyone else. I was never given anything that challenged me up until around 6th grade. I didn't learn for around 6 years. And when I found something that actually challenged me it hit my like a truck because I was used to everything being super easy. My parents, especially my dad always tried his best to teach me things that were outside my education because my brain wasn't being challenged in school. I was learning long division with my dad in like 2nd grade. I'm honestly very concerned for my generation.

[@k.stacey7389]

Institutionalized “education” is always going to cater to the lowest common denominator. Your parents should pull you out and home school you if they want you to thrive.

[@hereiam87]

A prime example of why kids who are ahead of other are the ones who need special needs education to help them thrive .as an eighth grader I am in “enriched classes” but often feel ostracized for even raising my hand to answer I once thought of asking if it was a classroom that was for the mentally impaired but decided against it and just checked the roster (it wasn’t) the point here is children now days aren’t learning enough while pandemic actually helped me I am a reallly fast learner but before lockdown which happened in fourth grade for me I had nothing to do heck in sixth grade I was stupid but when I saw a letter on my report card I looked at it and said “this is a bragging right” and so here I am scrolling through KZbin for anything really and since I am a fast learner I actually watch shortened down analysis for better retention ( I’m doin some college level courses it sucks!!)

[@LymbicSystemuwu]

@@hereiam87 Not to mention that "gifted" children who are ahead, on top of being set aside because "they don't need help", are also expected to accomplish great things in life, putting additional pressure on them.

[@poodle-aid]

Don’t worry if you’re born before 2012 you’re fine you’re gen z

[@a_Aurora_a]

@@LymbicSystemuwu That's what I am saying! We are expected to succeed in life but then we don't get any extra support that is necessary in order to succeed!

[@AliceChaplin-p6e]

This shit is honestly insane. Not an exaggeration at all. I am Gen Z (18) and live in the UK. My education is heavily affected by my ADHD, and I struggle to focus and maintain tasks for long periods of time. For this reason, my amazing English Teacher allowed me to sit in her classroom during my free periods so that I could focus better and take more accountability. I recently was in her class when she was teaching some year 9's (8th Grade). In my school phones are banned, and it was during this lesson that I saw why. They all use chrome books to do their work, typing it all up into a google doc. Most of them were playing online games while my teacher was speaking, watching KZbin, and being loud and pretty much uncontrollable. I couldn't believe the disrespect they were showing to her either. For the first time in my life I saw my kind, patient, understanding teacher grind her teeth in genuine frustration. It's depressing to say the least, especially since by the time the lesson was done, the kids had written less words in their google docs than I have in this comment. To all the teachers out there; I wish you the best of luck.

[@kamalcell2587]

Same story

[@feline3vil]

off topic, but I thought ur profile was CHIHIRO FUJISAKI!!!! (Danganronpa reference ;) )

[@kanaotsuyuriofficialchan]

For real.

[@Reneebell614]

Same but I’m 15 in high school. I really try to my friends they just don’t pay attention

[@Senacacrane]

I know when I was on school I mean yes. I also have ADHD and that's understandable that you know I have some issues with like say you know math and English and that's understandable. But kids these days I think that's just shocking. Your average Joe schmo Middle School cannot reform math at their grade level and they can't read at their grade level. What is happening? I do not think we should lower the bar anymore. We need to have high expectations. When I was in school, and this is a Generation Z person talking. We had very high expectations, not too high, but enough to know where the bar was set.

[@piper_luvs]

As someone born in 2011, this makes me grateful that my parents gave(give) me strict screen time rules. I also go to a strict private school and if you have your phone out in school, you get an out of school suspension for like 3 days 😅😅

[@helendeck9487]

Bro….. ME TOO, I can almost relate the same

[@Dead-Tired_Knight]

I was born in 2001, my first smartphone I got on my 16th birthday. Then I see the 1 year old get an ipad and I'm like what in the actual f-

[@Lichenroc]

Ikr I got my first phone in 11th grade. I was born in 2002.

[@DemiCape]

I got my first iphone 4 at the age of 13 and was born 2000 and yeah I really think owning such thing by yourself at young age is a bit early.

[@thomgizziz]

@@DemiCape There are people that didn't get cellphones until they were in their 20s or at least until they were able to pay for it. You are looking down at these people and thinking they are dumb and by your logic the older generation gets to look down on you but you still feel that you are special and are smart... do you see the issue? Of course you don't, because you aren't that bright.

[@aaronaguilar824]

I got my first phone at 3 years old, but it was my dads old phone that my brother had, then my dad let me have the phone. BUT: I was only watching KZbin Kids and playing mouse simulator and squirrel simulator also FRICKING PLANTS VS ZOMBIES! U NEVER SEE A KID PLAYING THOSE GAMES ANYMORE!!! U BARELY SEE A 3 YEAR OLD WATCHING KZbin KIDS THESE DAYS!!!!!!!! THATS SO MESSED UP!!! IM LITERALLY ALMOST 10 AND I CANT BELIEVE 7TH GRADERS!!! 7 T H G R A D E R S!!!!!!!!!! 7TH GRADERS ARE ON THE LEVEL OF 2ND GRADERS!!!!! IM I. THE 4TH GRADE, AND IM SMARTER THAN THEM!!!!!!!THEY'RE 3 YEARS AHEAD OF ME IN SCHOOL AND IM LIKE 5TH GRADE LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@axlrosest]

​@@thomgizzizwtf?

[@HattyVA]

I'm gen Z and while I definitely had technology as a big part of my upbringing, it was mostly so that my dad could introduce me to things he likes. Stuff like old video games, modding, and sci-fi. At restaurants, my parents would always point out iPad kids (this was when the concept was still new) and tell me about how dangerous it is. I'm glad I listened to them because now I'm extremely mindful of the content I consume. I make sure that whatever I watch in my free time is about something I like, not what's currently trending.

[@SmoochThePook]

As a current Gen alpha even if I hate it when my parents put restrictions on technology I understand why they do. I have also been raised to an education standard. If I get below a B in a class or an F on an assignment my parents will mention it and I will try to bring it up. (I will usually bring it up a few percent.) I also am mindful of what I watch on youtube and on pinterst. I will actively block and make sure anything I don't agree with or something that is rotting my brain is removed from my youtube shorts. (My parents also don't like tiktok and refuse to let me use chat GPT even if it is just for fun)

[@keefester]

Yes completely 100% agree. After hearing about the pandemic of the lack of comprehension skills that so many kids just a few years younger than us have, makes me so cautious of what I do online. Know I use technology purely for education and to learn about things that help strengthen my brain. Just like you I’m super into modding and stuff and I am stating to get into code. I also love researching about the history of things, like different genres of music. Especially Jazz and Bossa Nova

[@trighyjock5415]

Gentleman, I would like to ask when your dad showed you tecnology in what age? So I have a ideia when I should show the good parts of tecnology (old video games, sci-fi, learning like Game Theory and Kurzgesagt) so I know when to show tecnology to my future kids and I have a base ideia of how to raise rather than completely blind on this topic. Thank you if you respond it or atleast read it, have a good day/night.

[@inko_gnito_]

Also a gen Z that had technology as a part of my life, except for most of my life I relied on toys to keep me entertained and helped me become more creative and imaginative, which is why I want parents of gen A to start giving kids toys instead of phones, it's way cheaper and also promotes creativity

[@niraxlevi9930]

I'm gen z too and i got my first phone when i was 15 and my first laptop when i was 17 ,if i wanted to the a research or anything my dad would give me his phone or laptop for 2 hours ,i only had Nintendo to play games so if the parents wanted to raise children they can

[@gumbly4174]

My 3 year old niece was crying and I was the only one near her so I just started singing to her, I’m not good with kids and didn’t know any kids songs off the top of my head so I think I just sang her lovesong by the cure and she calmed down in my arms quickly. My sister was shocked at how I was able to calm her down and she normally just gives her her I pad and that’s it. I came to me that that was probably the first and last time someone had held her and sang to her in a loving manner, I wanted to cry right then and there.

[@GangleGoneInsane]

That's so sad. I have a 3 year old cousin and she's an ipad kid😢. She's so bratty and literally slapped my brother with a toy guitar when she didn't get what she wanted. She always plays with her iPad and she watches skibidi toilet and other brainrot. I feel so bad for her that her parents raised her with the internet 😢

[@Funnyguy-sup]

I have a younger cousin, she used to be nice be has become super bratty recently, she lives with her grandma and that’s what keeps her in check without that, Oooohhhh boi that would be bad

[@gumbly4174]

@@Funnyguy-sup Absolutely. I Don’t wanna have kids rn tbh. But if I ever do I aspire to be like Bandit from Bluey.

[@Funnyguy-sup]

@@gumbly4174 yeah I’m hoping to be a uncle to make sure my brothers kids aren’t iPad kids and bratty

[@gumbly4174]

@@Funnyguy-sup Good idea. Good luck.

[@Genshinfan748]

We went on a 13 HOUR flight, and my niece who is in 6th grade did not go on her phone for even 5 minutes! She was studying the whole time. Idk if she just likes it or is getting BORED of her tech!

[@cliffsofmoher4220]

Because you cant get Internet access on an plane that's all it is

[@crims0n435]

@@cliffsofmoher4220 You can but you have to spend money

[@Random_Strawberry_]

I know young teenagers my age who say the most 18+ sexual stuff. It makes me so uncomfortable and disgusted.

[@RandomBlackBox]

Jokes with double meaning sprinkled in to conversations and waiting for them to notice look at you with the “really?” stare is funny. Just blaring out inappropriate stuff is not funny. The right stuff at the right time with the right people.

[@Ihatecg]

My (9 years old) ex-freind would say the n word, a ton (he's white btw) specifically the hard r And also just said the most deplorable shit ever

[@LifeGal-q1m]

Teens are Gen-Z. Tweens are Gen-Alpha.

[@marcosgonzalez4207]

​@@LifeGal-q1m i am 18 years old and i'm not the older gen z folk

[@joseernandedbueno]

In My class(12yrs, Brazil) some girls gave a condom to a guy, I didn’t even know that minors could buy this kinda of stuf

[@someone-338]

Bro I see parents walk into the school like “it’s not my babies faults 😡😡” your right it’s your fault 😍

[@quantumgaming9180]

Ehem*, aCtUaLlY iT's SpELlEd "you're" 🤓

[@blue_cricketfr]

@@quantumgaming9180 this is what teaching an 8th grade class is like fr

[@CatPopeII]

​@@quantumgaming9180unironically I think apart of the issue is the vilification of correcting people. The way you treat small things is how you treat big things.

[@quantumgaming9180]

@@CatPopeII sorry I don't understand what you meant in the first part of your statement. You mean my previous comment or the original posters' comment?

[@Vexx2006]

​​​@@quantumgaming9180 it was referring to Anu. You're ok even if you use your r#_@! zoomer, alpher lingo

[@ORGANaryGrl]

I hate being Gen Alpha. I was always told by teachers I was 'So smart' for just doing what they asked. I always thought it was pretty weird, considering I was just doing what was SUPPOSED to be normal for my age. And I always thought it was a bit odd that so many of my classmates, who were in literal middle school, couldn't write normal, day-to-day words properly. I have literally had people have to ask me how to spell 'School' before. and, y'know, maybe they did have Dyslexia, or maybe they just forgot it for a split second, I've had that happen before, but HALF of my class? 8+ times? I seriously doubt it. And, I don't blame them, not exactly!! Their parents are just REALLY shitty, take it from me. I have met so many kids who have almost never had a home-cooked meal, or haven't really seen their mom and dad too much, and that breaks me. I hate watching my peers suffer for no reason in particular. I hate having to know that these people I sit with, laugh with, play with, joke with, I hate knowing that one day, they're gonna be an adult. And they won't know how to function. And I hate knowing that, there is ALWAYS the possibility that if I don't try hard enough, I'll end up like that too. (Sorry for the poorly placed paragraphs, idk where to put the spaces so it isn't SUPER hard to read lol)

[@rosalinamacarita01]

The hell are you apologizing for? that's a legible paragraph right there, you might not realize it now (which is normal) BUT YOU are already winning. You're aware of what's happening in your environment, you're aware of your point of view, you're basically gifted in this day and age, and you don't seem like an ipad kid, if it weren't for the fact that you explicitly said you're gen alpha, i could've thought you were gen z or later, god bless you man, you're definitely going to be good in life.

[@ORGANaryGrl]

@@rosalinamacarita01 Thank you so much!! This means a lot to me. I really do try despite the circumstances lol

[@cottonmelon]

Don’t apologize, as soon as I started reading I noticed how good you were at writing. It’s good that there’s hope for your generation thanks to kids like you! It’s great that you know the problems nowadays with kids and the fact that you are younger than me and you are this mature it’s excellent. Don’t worry, work hard!

[@ORGANaryGrl]

@@cottonmelon Thank you!! Im so glad I've given somebody some hope in this dull world. It's a rather proud feeling. Thank you for taking time and commenting, it means a lot to me!!

[@captainshiloh831]

i’m a younger gen z (just graduated high school) and dude when i tell you my SENIOR english class had to be the most depressing place in that building- i’ve always been at a much higher level because (thank god) my mom has a brain in her skull and taught me to read and write well from very early on, and i was supposed to be in the advanced honors english class but i didn’t feel like dealing with the workload or the teacher i knew i’d get since i heard she was a hardass. and tell me why these SENIORS were asking the teacher how many sentences are in a paragraph and needing step by step help to get through basic assignments 😭 like it terrifies me that those people are just out in the world being adults now

[@elizabethhan9579]

I am a 7th grader in korea, and since we are a small country, we are expected to learn a decent amount of english. We do NOT struggle with our language, and if we don't do our homework, we get ACTUAL punishments! It's true that we still watch tiktok and youtube, but it's expected that we have 1 hour of screen time AT MOST! We also have many after-school activities that are not in school(they are called 학원). There are places for learning extra math, science(and more) to keep busy! And a lot of the kids in my class(and school) that are learning math that is 8~9th grade level! I hope that the next generation will do well...

[@jessenoneofyobussines7560]

That poor ballet teacher is a good soul she see's the bigger picture and is well spoken, you can hear the pain in her voice.

[@lilscenechick1995]

When she almost broke into tears I wanted to cry, too. She genuinely cares and honestly it’s pretty disgusting what lyrics children are listening to. I’m fine with dirty songs and yes children are going to be exposed to some inappropriate things, now and again. However it’s so irresponsible for parents to just simply not supervise and not care what sort of content their children are watching and listening to. Sexually explicit music is how most children are exposed to sexual content at early ages, and it’s so important to monitor that…

[@jessenoneofyobussines7560]

@@lilscenechick1995 hits you in the faith of humanity section of your heart.

[@ninar9664]

Yeah she looked like she was about to cry

[@m.htruth8880]

Hypersexuality in children has been an early agenda pushed to children since for ever. Especially with Disney and stuff it's funded by pedo psychiatrist. I started studying Hypersexuality subliminal messages at 8 and I would warn ppl. Nobody listens till it's too late.

[@kiirolozanogarcia3003]

all the teachers in this vid are all victims like her

[@postpunklover78]

I'm a late Gen-Z, 2009. The basic concept of children not being able to READ is so beyond me that it feels virtually dystopian. These kids and their attachments to the screen makes me feel ILL. And the parents? My father is a millennial, he was born in 1985, and I fear I am one of the LUCKIEST PEOPLE in this WORLD to have a parent that isn't so distant and detached from their own children. Being in an age range full of children that cannot comprehend what the word "significant" means (I have seen such first hand) is so disgusting. My school year mainly consists of rude, immature, angry children who cannot respect anyone if they were PAID! I have been told I am a child that is "talented for their age", which, to me, is stupid. These teachers are trying their hardest to get through. My school has actually taken it upon themselves to ban phones at school, and the outrage from parents I have seen is STUPENDOUS! I can't even begin to imagine how older people feel when looking down at us. I am so ashamed to be Gen-Z.

[@inky-rose6460]

I understand exactly where you're coming from I'm also late Gen-Z (2008) and I've seen people in my grade get so attached to their phones. And my little sister (Gen Alpha) who was in like third or second grade at the time told me once how several students in her glasses had phones! My school has a strict rule against phones. I've seen kids have to be taken down to the office because they didn't want to put down their phone. It got so bad that half the time students have to pay like a dollar to get their phone back because that's how much of an issue we were having with it I've heard High school students my age confused about which places were states and they didn't know some pretty basic high school level English vocabulary It's honestly baffling

[@hoppers4prez214]

It's not a gen alpha thing. Y'all are probably decently privileged and have never been to the inner cities before, but it has been normal that those kids are like 5+ grade levels behind for decades now.

[@funnibaugetteman]

I’m around the same age, and the people in my school act like Gen alpha, we’re screwed lol.

[@Schaap123]

I'm just gonna tell you as a gen-z born in 2002: when I was 15-16 years old which I assume is your age right now, I don't think I was able to comprehend the world around me and write coherend messages as nicely as you are doing in this message. Now consider that Im a 22 year old student doing a masters degree in biomedical engineering. I think you are rather talented for your age lol

[@postpunklover78]

@@Schaap123 This is actually much appreciated. I like to think especially compared to most people my age I'm not a total lost cause. Also, I am at the moment fourteen, so again I actually appreciate this a lot. Thank you.

[@Duty2rebel1976]

No child left behind has quite literally left every child behind. Throw in a pandemic and apathetic parents and you have a recipe for disaster.

[@andrelockridge9109]

Oh you forgot millennial & Gen Z "teachers" who feels its more important to indoctrinate their students then to educate them. Throw in grade inflation & mismanagement of teaching funds into the mix.

[@andy2641]

I don’t think it’s any specific thing that caused it, it’s a culture shift

[@Im2lazy4thisCrit]

@@andy2641I definitely think access to the internet/social media has something to do with it

[@TheElectricTawker]

Ok so this kid in my class (we’re in 7th grade by the way) can’t even do basic SUBTRACTION AND. ADDITION. At least some of the other kids in my class are like a little below grade level (which is not the best but better than 1st grade levels struggling). These kids are saying words i know they don’t know what those words mean no one does really. Just stupid words. Now were classified as all ruined so some of us who actually work hard are BULLIED at school for wanting to do well. GROW UP AND CONTROL AND WORK WITH YOUR CHILDREN INSTEAD OF LAYING ON YOUR FAT ASSES ALL DAY.

[@LovingGodLovingOthers]

@@Im2lazy4thisCrityea from what I’ve seen my own millennial family members (4 different women) they are all lazy because of the phones. They scroll on their phone and watch movies/series and don’t play with their toddlers. They give their toddlers an iPad or the TV or even their own phone to play on. Also one gives her toddlers unsupervised KZbin on the ipad (not KZbin kids) and all of these toddlers I’m mentioning are 1-3 years old. I was hanging out with one of the toddlers and she was scrolling KZbin shorts on her iPad, with the most disturbing looking videos I’ve ever seen. She imitates the videos (she’s 3) and it’s super sad😭 I was born in 1999 so I’m slightly not a millennial but I know for sure what NOT to do with my future kids

[@KellieHanincik]

PREACH IT GIRL!!!!! Teacher here in Florida, & i can vouge for all the things these teachers are saying! I teach Head Start (3-5yr olds), & you'd be shocked at what this age says & does! It all starts at home w/ the parents, whether good or bad! I love teaching, but I'm not raising your child whom you either gave birth to or adopted! I dont get to claim them on income taxes or give them the consequences they deserve for being disrespectful, vulgar, defiant, or aggressive! And I sure don't get paid enough to deal w/ parents' negative & aggressive behavior!!!! Start parenting your kids appropriately or society & the law will do it for you & you may not like it!!!!

[@jwright6059]

I'm 24 and disgusted by parenting today. I have no kids but honestly when I have kids they will have little access to internet or devices. 5 year Olds and 8 year Olds saying gyatt is gross. Mom clearly isn't seeing how dire it is.

[@prnst4r]

Don't have kids. Being childfree is better.

[@YouveBeenMegged]

Yeah, the fact that that kid who couldn’t be older than like, 10 knows what a BBL is is extremely concerning.

[@minicrushies]

​@@prnst4r i think people can have kids if they want them and they're able to take care of them! - a childfree individual who will never ever have kids

[@emeraldcoal2360]

I’m about to have my 5th baby and mine are all very young but let me just encourage you that you can raise low-tech kids. The key is truly beating your own phone addiction which, honestly, most Americans have but won’t admit to. You just have to look at your screen time to figure that one out. I didn’t get a smart phone till I was 18 and it scared me how quickly it became an integral part of my life until I had to get rid of it a few years ago. I honestly thought Millennials were more self aware than this to realize what screens were doing to them and just how quickly it would hurt their kids.

[@PGOuma]

​@@YouveBeenMeggedI wanted to throw up

[@tucker0624]

Well I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to preach. “All children deserve parents but not all parents deserve children.”

[@Elgi72]

Its an american problem, not one of the whole world. So its not that bad.

[@judgeboony2695]

@@Elgi72 It's a global problem.

[@midnight-user12]

​@@Elgi72Maybe WW3 is a global problem.

[@johnblackhorn]

@@Elgi72 it’s goes to show there morons even outside the country of the US.

[@2003LN6]

@@Elgi72 go look at East Asia 🤣

[@thenetworkmystery]

Just bad parenting, that's what's causing this. I'm Gen Z, and was raised by very good Gen X parents who did NOT let me have a phone till I was in high school, and did NOT let me watch these stupid videos that Gen Alpha seem to be glued to. Let me ask... what the hell is going to happen to all these kids when they get to college?!!!!

[@kornaros96]

Grab popcorn.

[@javaDB.1.0.V1]

I swear, even watching youtube shorts for an hour caused me to feel exhausted. I had to seriously force myself to close the app in order to read a work of FICTION I really wanted to read. It glues you to the screen.

[@Vii-rb9vp]

even better, what's gonna happen when they try to get a job? do the parents of ipad kids really believe that their kids would all of a sudden gain the discipline to hold down a job once they turn 18? Or that they would even WANT to get a job at 18 because their parents made them to be so entitled?

[@matturner6890]

Fuck man, I couldn't even watch the Simpsons til I was 11 or so. There were these shows known as "bad shows" that kids typically couldn't watch, and there was typically no way to sneak around and watch them unless you risked using *the* family TV. These kids with the internet in their palm from day one? Parents don't have a chance of policing what they're seeing unless they, you know, actually parent their kids and limit their usage.

[@danoplaysrl]

They’re not even gonna be able to get a scholarship 😐

[@davthesav]

So when I was 5 I spent hours playing with toy cars on that road rug thing but 5 year olds now are getting phones 💀

[@toptengamermoments]

A concerning number of the other kids in my HIGH SCHOOL HONORS ELA class still have the grammar of elementary schoolers. They somehow still have not learned the difference between "to" and "too".

[@tnmsfl2007]

I feel like that has become the reality of most honors classes now. I’m in an Honors Algebra I class (btw, I got in A in Calculus in 10th grade, I was just missing Alg I for some reason, 🤷‍♂️), and there are 10th and 11th graders who can’t figure out how to find the slope or “m” in the equation. The teacher has to make the kids use a calculator to find what is 4/2… I thought this was honors? Most kids in algebra I are in 9th or 10th grade, but for honors 9th or even 8th grade. I’m Gen Z, and this is absolutely insane.

[@LilacDeiji]

think that applies all around the internet ngl

[@aaron-dq3qr]

No way

[@bossjihyo2276]

As a non native English speaker who worked so freaking hard to get to this level of fluency, I get so mad when I see misspellings like "to/too" "your/you're" made by actual anglophones. It's crazy because that's less than the basics. In my country, we have terrible students as well, so I'm wishing the best to all teachers everywhere

[@alecmullaney7957]

Are you passing or failing them?

[@itss_addie]

as a 7th grader who - by the way - goes to a pretty good quality school; i can confirm there are students in my class who will ask how to spell basic words like 'crane' and 'flour'. a few weeks ago, i was in a group with a girl who didn't know what the word 'poverty' meant. i mentioned the word and she literally asked me to write 'poor people' next to it on the project after i told her what poverty is. i was shocked at how out-of-touch with reality she was.

[@EntropyAndSingularity]

I had someone (in 8th grade mind you) ask me what lesser meant after I called her that (because she was being dumb). I said “It basically means inferior”, and she asked me what that meant. I gave up and told her to look it up. She seemed slightly offended but mostly surprised that I managed to insult her with my intelligence.

[@athmelon8432]

I'm in 8th grade too and tbh all my classmates are "normal" . I think this problem is only in the US . cause we aren't allowed to take our phones to school so we actually yk talk to ppl do extracurricular and hang out itl with our friends

[@YGYRWYFTDD]

​@@Cube-0f-ic3 I wanna think you're joking.... You're joking? Right? 😟 RIGHT?💀

[@theEWDSDS]

​@@Cube-0f-ic3Hate to break it to you dude, but you just admitted to breaking YT rules...

[@Cube-0f-ic3]

@theEWDSDS YEAH I know, but why would I watch KZbin kids?

[@Its-na-yy-ab]

I'm a GenZ who literally got her own mobile phone when I got in High school and got a laptop in University, it's not the children's fault, it's the parents clearly!

[@aspillust]

ayyy me too, got an ipod touch in 6th grade, my first phone at 15 (still using it lol), and my first laptop right before college 👌

[@ragingraichu219]

I had a computer at the age of 10 or 11, but what did I do with it? Mostly read. I didn't get a smartphone until 2016, when I was 26. I may have despised school with a passion, but I'm so glad I wasn't raised like Gen Alpha is being raised. Unfortunately, I've seen it with my own two eyes while out and about doing errands. One kid literally walked into a glass wall because he wasn't paying attention to anything but his tablet. When I was out running errands with my mom as a kid, I had my imagination when I was bored, or I would just look around me and observe what was happening in my vicinity.

[@averagemanobi5679]

I did have a laptop in 9th grade, but I didn’t have a personal phone until I was 17. And I didn’t even mind that cause I loved reading books since first grade. Many people today are surprised when I tell them I started reading books at 5, like nowadays my 2nd grader cousin has difficulty to read without pronouncing the words out loud but can use the phone like a pro, while I could read books perfectly at her age and didn’t even know how to use a smartphone .

[@ZERO_boi.]

I got a iPod when I was around 6 years old (I’m on the younger end of gen Z) but I had it with big limitations from my parents, I was only aloud Spotify and a app for audio books all other apps were closed off I didn’t even have a phone number. My first phone I got when I was 9 but still with limitations and over sight by my parents, they also talked bout it with me before I got it. Even now I’m not aloud social media the only thing I’m aloud is Snap Chat on my phone (I’m aloud KZbin on my ipad), my dad has also put in that I can’t download apps without asking him I have to send a request to him.

[@ayehailey7238]

same here!

[@strawberriescattt]

As a Gen Alpha in 7th, it’s different at my school due to me being in a private school. They very much stress about high school and expectations, and most students in my class are okay. However, the lower grades are different. I literally heard a teacher talking about how the some of the 6th graders were reading on a 2nd grade level. It’s insane 🥲

[@erimator17]

I’m just praying that Gen Z will do better at parenting. Please, let’s parent our kids well in the future. We got this, people. 🧎‍♀️

[@kalynalloyd226]

Amen 🙏

[@BiBiren]

I will not be like my colleague, who is about the same age as me (25) but with a kid. She let her kid watch tiktok. Some of what she watches are (dare I say) cringy and obnoxious that it annoyed me while the video loops during work. Edit: Last Christmas, I remember that also have a baby cousin who wants to go to USA just to buy Prime. I warned my aunt who lets him watch Tiktok and Cocomelon on YT that the ones who made this drink ae bad influences to kids.

[@erimator17]

@@BiBiren Lord… why??

[@zerotodona1495]

Gen alpha is mostly gen Z kids…

[@BonesJonesIdk]

@@zerotodona1495 no, because gen z is gen z not gen alpha

[@skibid1izzy]

As someone who has danced competitively since age seven, that ballet teacher’s video was heartbreaking. Growing up, I had very kind teachers, and I had so much respect for them. When I was very little, I was hanging onto every word they said. Those beautiful ballerinas and teachers were like mothers to me, and I have so much respect and gratitude to them for that. However if I ever told them to shut up or “yOure not my mom” they would have pulled me from the routine we were practicing or asked to have my mum pick me up. I hated this as a child, but looking back I am very grateful that they taught me discipline and character, as well as dance. P.S - Miss Aimee, miss you so much and I hope you’re doing AWESOME! Congrats on having your baby daughter and I’m so excited for you to come back in the studio in a few months.

[@callmecharlie99]

I did ballet too and thought my teacher was the most graceful lady on earth. She used to be a professional ballerina and was elegant and composed. I wasn't good enough to go en pointe, but I still appreciated her efforts to teach me. If I would have said anything like that to my teachers, I would not only be ashamed, but my parents would have disciplined me (as they should have).

[@GangleGoneInsane]

I feel so sorry for the ballet teacher and I'm glad my 5 year old sister is respectful I'm scared because she schools in a public school and so many kids already watch TikTok and says bad words. I'm horrified of what will happen to her if she befriends the wrong friend group.

[@jayemover_16]

"The lights are on but nobody's home, and I'm not even sure the lights are on" This has earned a permanent spot in my lexicon

[@EntropyAndSingularity]

I read this at the exact moment she said that.

[@monikacaban8329]

11:49 girl nearly started crying.

[@Sans-rg1zl]

WHAT. THE. FU-

[@Greenbean6750]

Middle school about to require an entrance exam 💀💀💀

[@Dan6-789zw]

💀

[@jamesbyerly766]

"No child left behind" says this comment is false

[@maicall-t4h]

Thats how we do it in my country. If you want to go to highschool you have to take a life or death entrance exam

[@Rat_8868]

@@maicall-t4hlife or death?

[@pipitayun.r2763]

@@Rat_8868 bro talking about highschool entrance exam as if it's a chuunin exam 💀

[@Error_Nine9]

I'm a seventh grader and I have classmates that act like this. My classmates tear up paper and leaving it on the floor and even vandalized a table with ink. I'M NOT KIDDING, class ended, and one kid broke a pen and the ink splattered everywhere. And since my teacher is black, the kid had the balls to say: "Clean it up, you slave." And just left like as nothing happened. I feel bad for all the shit my teacher has to go through in the class, he's a very kind, a nice person, and an energetic teacher (I help my teacher clean it up.) I just can't believe what is happening to all of these teachers that have gone through this shit! I have a very bad feeling that something bad will happen to one of these teachers someday and it's horrifying if you think about it. I hope all of these teachers will get a break from these unsupervised kids and I also hope parents will actually pull their shit together and actually be a goddamn parent.

[@joyasaxena9976]

Wow! Thank you for sharing this! I’m proud of you for being a leader at your age. We need more people in your generation like you; kind, considerate, and empathetic to people.

[@valentinaraffaelli7291]

what's crazier is in my history class... white children are saying the N word straight up in front of the teacher, and they do nothing about it.what. the. hell.

[@thedrivinglife]

another problem is how no one is doing anything to punish these kids! They do bad things & get away with it, so they think its not actually that bad & will continue to do it!

[@ilie-marianbaciu7091]

I am in 8th grade, and mostly the same. I even have a classmate who said her dream is to be a prostitute in Germany, in front of the french teacher, although im not 100% sure if she was serious (but knowing her, i dont doubt either)

[@Distelmann]

Thats why i love the german education system: we got 2 types of Highschool, the Gemeinschaftsschule (community school) and the Gymnasium The Gymnasium is more challenging but we also do really cool student exchanges ( my school, Lyon, la réunion (both france)Balbriggan(Ireland) Bari(Italy)) and the final graduation test (Abitur) is the same at all Highschools so you have it easier at the end and the best part about it is that is a public school that just turned 200 years old

[@justcath3r1ne]

As a dancer that has taken thousands of classes for 10-11 years, I felt horrible for this poor ballet teacher that’s just wants to teach kids about ballet only to find out that she lost her passion for teaching ballet. Growing up I was taught that respect is the key of learning and listening same with dedication, diligence and gratitude and these kids don’t have that, it’s one thing to be rude to a teacher but pressuring them and making them lose their passion to dance is another.

[@laurakennedy1172]

I've danced my whole life - if my parents got wind of me disrespecting my dance teachers they would've pulled me out of lessons so fast I would've gotten whiplash

[@theonlycake]

i have always wanted to do dance :( but i’m afraid i won’t be good enough or flexible enough. In addition, where i live, there aren’t classes in a language which i understand :(

[@11days_younger_than_the_sigma]

Hello! Irish child here, there are Primary ONES. That can read at their lever, few a bit better!

[@A_Random_kpop_Fan]

As a Canadian 6th grader, I am genuinely scared. Hearing kids that are my age that can’t perform in their grade level is genuinely worrying me. This cannot be the future of a country. Listen, English isn’t even my first language (french is) and I can write better than them which is very concerning.

[@c0sm1c_sp4c3y]

yo same grade

[@reddblackjack]

Nice! I'm 46 and only have passing familiarity with other languages. French from culinary school, Spanish from working on kitchens I've worked in, Klingon from my love of star trek, German from family. I'm not multilingual by any stretch. But you can start thinking of your idiot peers as one of my favorite human words. Bachfeifengesisht. From German, a face that needs to be hit. It's okay to feel mad about being surrounded by ignorant morons. Mad enough to slap them. But don't. I'm not condoning or encouraging violence. Learn everything you can while you still have the ability and you'll go far! Even if you want to be president of Canada.

[@Grainofsand_gs]

As an American 7th grader, so am I. There are people in my advanced ela class that still can't understand *theme*

[@BUNNI..THINGS]

Ello fello 6th grader

[@BUNNI..THINGS]

@@Grainofsand_gsWAIT WHAT.

[@countvronsky4025]

Every generation of kids have their own slang. My friends and i used to say some dumb stuff as kids, to be sure. But WE WERE ABLE TO TURN IT OFF AT THE APPROPRIATE MOMENTS. It wasn't the only thing we knew, it was just nonsense, and we KNEW it was nonsense. Fuck me...

[@celu7361]

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[@tigerlilly9038]

*we knew it was nonsense* THIS.

[@coolcomments]

Peanut butter

[@CigarettesOutTheWindow502]

Gladly- /j But, yeah. Some kids just don’t know how to shut up.

[@Kerm_ie]

I'm glad I was born just before gen alpha, but I'd say any of them after 2017 are fucked

[@FatYoshi619]

3:07 just for context: 2nd graders are learning simple multiplication, division, complex adittion/subtraction and tables 7th graders are learning ALGEBRA, graphs, simultaneous equations related to inheritance, number line, sets, COMPLEX geometry and ratioing. That's a HUGEEEEEE gap

[@thiennhanvo2591]

Ngl algerbra is like a harder multiplication,division,addition and subtraction(and exponentiation)

[@ewpert.]

WAIT HUH??? WHAT SEVENTH GRADE WERE YOU HAVING

[@thiennhanvo2591]

@@ewpert. asian 7th grade.

[@ewpert.]

@@thiennhanvo2591 understandable

[@selencia7312]

@@ewpert. So I am a millennial. Went to a normal public school in Texas and I remember having to go to remedial algebra class in the 7th grade. (Became a core memory cause of the pretty yellow flowers that bloomed outside my classroom's windows.) I'm a bit concerned that you think that is a high level, I remember taking calculus classes in high school.

[@Aimz360]

Wow that was a lot. I thought my classes were rough in 2000-2005 with teachers telling us to copy out of the text book without telling us why. Even in my secondary school there were kids who were behind on their reading, myself included (2000 and we didn't know i had autism and dyslexia), so we had a room specifically to help those with reading. We had a time and we got to leave class and no one knew where we were going and we could be descrete. My reading did pick up and I love reading.

[@WaveMaker097]

I’m an 8th grader right now, and the current situation is truly shocking to hear about. I’ve always been very strict with myself about getting good grades, but seeing that other people my age aren’t even trying is appalling. It genuinely makes me sad that this is how my generation acts, and I really hope that it gets better soon. Something needs to change if we want to have a good future, so it’s great that this video is bringing awareness to this issue.

[@Lylactal]

Try what? Like at some point you get tenured it doesn't matter if we try we live in an individualist society influenced by nihlism. Don't get me wrong I would love to try it's just the schools throw creativity out of the window.

[@janinarb]

Keep up the good work! Maybe you could try explaining to your peers why it’s necessary to utilize critical thinking and to study. Remind them to live in the moment and try to reduce screen usage cause soon enough they’ll be in high school and they won’t have assistance with every single thing they do! As a junior in hs i’ll be the first to tell you that the material does not get easier and that each year surely does fly by fast. Do what you will with that info ! What you do as a teenager has a huge impact on your life as an adult! 🤓☝️

[@Tara_.]

same! I'm in 8th grade and the fact that people my age can't spell the word "expect" is scary.

[@bellcore]

Right??? I think a major part of the problem is that kids aren’t being disciplined either… Like, if most of the kids in my grade had my parents… they wouldn’t be acting up so much. Parents let their children bully them, or don’t even care about what their kids DO in school, and it’s a big issue…

[@phoebe.corwin]

Dw 2009-2011 is Gen Z

[@erikgustafson7365]

The problem is parents regretting having kids and toss them a phone to avoid hanging out with them

[@alyssajones4368]

Yep and it's sad.

[@TresAmigos-ix9vo]

@@alyssajones4368that’s why they call it the sad truth!!

[@Blackdawn80]

I've always wanted to sat this but it's so hard to believe. Shocking truth indeed.

[@itzjustdarren1348]

Skibidi Rizz Gyattt💀😎😎😎😎😎😎

[@valentinaraffaelli7291]

​@@itzjustdarren1348which further proves our point here

[@L3arning_Edits]

I’m gonna be honest, I’m a 7th grader, and I was always so confused why my teachers were saying how I was excelling compared to some of my other classmates, I’m just doing what a normal seventh grader does. I agree that a ton of other kids my age act a lot like the examples the teachers gave in this video, and it’s very sad. I completely agree with you, it is Social Media’s fault. My parents didn’t give me a device at a very young age, and my dad has my internet turned off at 20:00 (8pm) every night. A ton of my classmates don’t listen, and are very disrespectful towards our superiors. I wish all the teachers out there the best of luck, and they have my upmost respect.

[@kyliegymnastics]

I’m the same (8th grade) Like I’m just doing the work lol

[@Cardinal_73]

While I’m gen Z and I can’t relate, but I just want to say that you’re insanely lucky with how you ended up.

[@L3arning_Edits]

@@Cardinal_73 technically I’m Gen Z too, Gen Z ends in 2012. I was born in 2011. Correct me if I’m wrong, though

[@Kiruuulovessuu]

This is so true!I’m a 7th grader also,and i have a same situation as you.All of the teachers are saying how good i did compared to the other classmates,even though i am doing what i should do.I am super surprised that half of my class does not know how to read the clock.they are also very disrespectful to the teachers.The amount of time i hear my science teacher specifically scream at them is crazy.I moved from china to the UK,and i always thought, ‘why do they just not kick the student out if they are disturbing the class?Thats what my school in china did.’

[@L3arning_Edits]

@@Kiruuulovessuu My science teacher screams at them too!! I don’t understand why they have to be so rude, they don’t seem to have the slightest concept of manners

[@Unlikelypop]

As a 7th grader, 11months after this video I can say that the children in school are getting worse and more disrespectful and disruptive in classes, my learning is getting held back day and day because of half of the class being udder idiots. The parents are so stuck up and refuse to help their children and teach them basic behavior that they act like spoiled brats in school and breaking school items like it’s their own property. Schools will probably never recover from this behavior unless parents and children get their act together and teach them respect, learning abilities and responsibility for their actions.

[@xhimibeqiri4405]

Come over to the balkans, its not as bad

[@kelofthecreek]

as a kid born in 2010 w autism and adhd, i’ve always been above grade level. yes, i did have an ipad as a kid but i wasn’t on it 24/7. i can’t believe my disabled ass is MORE NORMAL than half these kids.

[@sagetheidiotartist]

Literally same

[@PinkKiferFluff]

Same

[@catlover013]

similar

[@3ctoB1olog1st]

this is crazy

[@kelofthecreek]

@@3ctoB1olog1st real 😭😭

[@HouHuimei]

for the first time in forever, i feel like homework is reasonable and required for children. Edit: damn i didn't know this would get so much engagement, in any case, i'll explain my point: homework will help drive home a topic and expand on it. homework doesn't HAVE to be mundane and boring, it can still be fun and helpful at the same time.

[@jimbocraggins]

homework should be mandatory for below grade level kids

[@ExEvMusic]

@@jimbocraggins 100%, and maybe even for most on-grade level classes imo

[@Keyen22]

They don't need homework, they need loving parents...

[@jimbocraggins]

@@Keyen22 and homework

[@Chris-xo2rq]

I don't know what is going on in the rest of the country but I have 2 boys in middle school in upstate New York and they and most of their friends are excelling academically. My oldest is advanced in math and science and gets straight-A's and my youngest can already write computer programs in both C++ and Python. I'd like to take some of the credit as a graduate degree holding firmware engineer but honestly the school system is fantastic as well. I often sit here in New York reading news about the rest of the country and it might as well be talking about sub-Saharan Africa for all the familiarity I find in it.

[@0fficially_Fazb3ar]

''gyatt'' might be the most cringiest things i've ever heard

[@donuts4life77]

gyatt

[@0fficially_Fazb3ar]

@@donuts4life77 its 2024 why are you saying that

[@QuasarTheVoyager]

@@0fficially_Fazb3ar No one cares #stophatingfornoreason

[@0fficially_Fazb3ar]

@@QuasarTheVoyager we hate for a reason

[@hellothere10yearsago97]

It was literally just supposed to be another way to say “goddamn” and now people twisted it into something that doesn’t even make sense

[@sanson391q]

As a middle schooler, i am not allowed to have devices when i am doing schoolwork/studying unless my parents are there. People need to learn to get off screens and do their work

[@frigidnadir]

i'm an autisitc gen Z person. i, nor did my class (CO 24) ever act like this. it was etched into me at a young age to respect your elders and listen to authority. never. EVER. have i seen anything this bad. autistic children are often stigmatized to act "off" or be more defiant, and people will (who do not have the disorder) use it as a poor excuse. it bothers me. i had a tablet when i turned 11. before then, we did things outside. i had a reading level of a high schooler when i was in 3rd grade. deemed "gifted". this saddens me to hear/see it happening around me. just.. do right. a tablet is not a parent. a phone is not a babysitter.

[@sokyu7723]

I’m also an autistic Gen Z, and for medical reasons I had devices earlier than usual and stayed home in my early years but I also played outside and was taught to use the internet for things like my interests, not for mindless brainrot. And it worked. I was top of my class most of elementary and middle school and I’m doing good in uni (hs co23)

[@sokyu7723]

I also had a college level reading level since seventh grade!

[@alchemlemnis]

autistic 15yo, i use my phone outside (and at school but the teachers dont really care) to listen to music to avoid having a meltdown and its super embarrassing 😥 i also ate through all my books i ran out of books to read at age 9 and i have 2 shelves full of them

[@plutoambrosia2453]

I'm also an autistic gen Z yet I didn't get my phone until I turned 15. I got a laptop when I became a 6th grader because it was one of the school requirements. If I could survive without a laptop until 6th grade and still know how to operate the internet or technology in general, so should the rest of the gen alphas. These parents are just making excuses not to take care of their children.

[@g_ggle-sect.]

My brother has autism & trust me, autistic children can act out & can act incredibly violent without it being bad or neglectful parenting. Not all autistic people are defiant but the idea of people with autism tending to be more uncooperative has remained true in my experience. My brother as a young child was downright evil; every single command given to him was immediately opposed to. I have baby-photos of myself where I'm literally covered in scratch marks because of my brother. He was absolutely horrible, downright traumatic, to take care of for my parents. He's nearly 18 now & he's not nearly as violent but has the occasional outburst (though that's more from teenage angst than anything else). Really it shows how impactful actual involved parenting can be; this horrible demon child was actually turned into a reasonable, functional human being through time & effort. I'm no autism expert but autism is a very very wide spectrum, it still boggles my mind a bit how there's no subsets or categorizations of different autisms, & there's definitely a violent kind of autism. To be fair though, I wouldn't be surprised if he had some other form of defiant disorder along with his autism that I'm not privy to. If you want a autism trait that's probably an excuse it's the idea that people with autism tend to be more picky. Yeah, as if everyone as a child wasn't picky lol

[@willowiee_]

As a gen alpha kid, I'm working on my addiction to my tablet. I never realized how big this problem was until 6th grade, when I went to a pulic school. 5th-6th graders were dating, most of my schoolmates couldn't read, everyone was watching and making tiktoks IN and DURING school, and someone tried to get me to watch p0rn??? I'm in 7th grade now and to be honest, I can't blame the teachers for not letting my other classmates graduate into high school. Because of this problem, the best i can do is control myself and help out my younger relatives(sometimes, friends) who struggle with reading, writing, spelling, and many more, and I hope there are others who are atleast trying to help themselves and others. EDIT: if theres any typo its not because i cant spell, its because i type really fast and im too lazy to fix grammar problems in chats or comments whatever this is

[@Yusuketh443]

as an early gen α kid i agree lol except the schoolmate cant read part that one is teacher fault

[@cheesycheese8451]

The second edit is terrifying. Thank you for sharing, and good luck with your studies.

[@whitelilyswife]

i technically fall along the line of gen alpha, and luckily have never encountered people who cant read on their level, cant do math on their level, etc etc (unless they have learning disabilities, but thats very different) but this stuff scares the hell out of me especially your second edit, oh my god

[@Vivan-8492vk]

To be frank my old elementary classmates couldn't read neither in their native language and the second official language in my country They're 6th Graders SIX Not to mention they make the girls in that class uncomfortable including me,smart shame when they're 12 yr olds who CANNOT read . To add insult to injury when it's their time to clean the class they just make tiktoks they don't even bother to help in the slightest That's not the worst quality they have.

[@blox_buildz]

as a late gen z, I can relate, I’m basically in this exact situation rn

[@SpookSkellington]

It's strange since as a child i spent alot of my time playing games and watching TV, and that greatly helped me read and write. I sorta forced myself to learn English at age 6 because i wanted to know what the text on my pokemon cards and gameboy games meant. Thanks to games and subtitled English movies, i was able to read and write at a level above my grade, while being bilingual. So while it is an definitely an issue that these kids are glued to phones and tablets, the bigger issue is the kind of mind-numbing content they're consuming. Seriously, if you have a young family member, just watch what they're watching for a second. It's just fast-paced algorithmically perfected slop with 0 substance.

[@rings22]

Literally bro. My cousin’s 6, and she has her mom’s phone more than she does. There’s stupid brain dead stuff I don’t even want to talk about, and she acts like a siren every time I try to get her to watch something even remotely educational. Hell, mrbeast would be better than the bs she scrolls through. She’s just annoying in general too, and her parents are not bad people, but damn they give the device to her easily. Really sad.

[@CocoaRon]

I agree. I literally learned English from watching Spongebob, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon. I also learned higher level words like "foe" from playing Pokemon when I was in the 1st grade.

[@whatismyadjectiveiconfused]

Same. I, indonesian, taught myself to speak english at the age of 6 with video games. I guess there's a shifting in the "selling point" of the games nowadays. Whereas our days games' selling point is the story, nowadays games are more of a short excitement, especially mobile games

[@tai.karo.05]

Oh absolutely. Plenty of kids have grown up on the internet and ended up more intelligent for it. Video essays, forums etc dedicated to media analysis, or educating on history, science, logic, sociology and so on have been raising the kids of Gen Z. There is lots of content that serves as good gateways for kids into that sort of content as people make those kinds of videos about things marketed to children (Game Theory videos about FNAF being the first example I think of). Y'know, taking things kids like and making them think more deeply about them, introducing them to different concepts in literature and science in an easy to understand way. And that content is still out there today, even on Tiktok. You can find people reading scientific studies on neuropsychology and breaking them down so even someone with no prior knowledge can understand how complex mental disorders work. You can find videos from specialists in every type of animal imaginable telling you everything you could ever want to know about literally any creature. You can find people from all walks of life that can introduce you to new experiences and ways of thinking. The problem is, that's not what Gen Alpha kids are watching. Honestly, I think the solution would have to be parents watching KZbin/Tiktok/etc together with their kids and showing them content that is actually helpful and not mindnumbing. Kids are curious creatures, you can help them come to enjoy learning. But these parents won't do that, and that's the other part of the problem, neglectful parenting. Best I can hope for is we'll all watch Gen Alpha crash and burn and it'll spark education reform and inspire people to be better parents.

[@rings22]

@@tai.karo.05 totally agree with you

[@CrystalRowe-m5x]

If you thought gen alpha was doomed wait until you see gen beta

[@Stoove.]

I work as an actor on a ship. It’s getting much harder to get kids to participate in activities. They’ll be on a freaking pirate ship sailing in an area that has some of the most beautiful sunsets on my side of the country, we do foam sword fights and even a water gun war. A good portion don’t even know what’s happening during the show because they’re on their iPads. They’re less social, and they don’t speak much, even to their parents. I’ve been told many times by parents to give up on trying to include their kids in the activities because “he/she doesn’t like to put the iPad down.” I’ve been yelled at by a drunk father for suggesting to his kid that he should look up from his phone to see the dolphins by the ship. Please don’t raise your kids on iPads. They’ll find no interest in anything beyond it.

[@essennagerry]

How are we not completely and utterly seeing this as a drug idk

[@tenshimoon]

That's scary, and I seriously don't know how these so-called parents let it get this bad, but here we are. I don't have kids because I really don't care to, but damn even I know "common" sense is not letting your kid play on electronics all damn day every day. It's not unreasonable to just schedule a MFing outing WITHOUT electronics and to leave them at home when you take your kids travelling or on outings like your pirate ship show. Take the damn iPads away or hell even ground them from it for a day or more if they're misbehaving, and set boundaries for how many hours each day they're allowed to use them. It's really not that hard to establish some sensible gd rules.

[@189BCC]

I’m in the fourth grade and on a grade level above the curriculum that my schools teaching this should be the normal. When I was in the gifted class there were 20 kids.

[@hotrodmercury3941]

Those pirate ships made my childhood when I was growing up ❤ I went every year to Gasparilla up until I moved my home state. Just a pirate lover to a fellow pirate, sail them seas ❤ On the flip side of things, I see it too. I don't work with kids, but I see it with my cousins and my friends kids. Its like they are afraid to take it away and make their kids play outside. I went camping with my extended family. They all came up to TN to a nice cabin I rented out. We were literally in the most beautiful place you could ever see. I know it might not appeal the same to a kid. Though I vividly remember going to Helen, Georgia as a kid and loving it, wanting to go back to it to play in the streams, see the bears, ride the carriage, eat the delicious fudge and play around the cabin. You'd think these kids would actually enjoy something new for a change. The youngest sat on his dad's phone all day, then tried to play on the switch. The oldest went around and explored, got bored and went to fighting with the youngest over the switch. The middle child had herself a android tablet. Played games the entire time, didn't even look up for a second. I tried to make games so they could play and have fun. Hide and seek, or let's go see a stream and go fishing and do all these things. they would put up a fight about leaving, take their stuff with them. We would show up to the location, they didn't want to do anything regarding it. When the youngest's fathers phone died, he cried and threw a hissy fit on the ground. I'm not good with children but I really struggled and tried to be nice. Got fed up the mean older sibling came out and I told him to sit down and shut up. My younger sister (17) came down to see how we were doing and ended up taking all three of them away. They went and told their parents how I was so mean and terrible to them. My lil brother (15) came down to me and we talked about it. "It bothers me too and Uncle XYZ won't fucking do shit about it. Like dude we are literally in Tennessee! Its beautiful out here!" That night the father took away all the electronics because they had died and the kids kept begging for the chargers like addicts. They screamed, threw fits, cried almost all night. The next day my Uncle said he bought a hotel room several miles in town so the kids would give us a break on the screaming. My mom, siblings and I had a nice vacation though. They did not.

[@Luckydog-cc9jn]

@@189BCCThat’s genuinely scary. I couldn’t imagine being a teacher nowadays…in the US at least…

[@heath6802]

I remember my mom teaching me to read at 3 and my love for reading only intensified as I aged and had access to more complicated books. To me that says parents are totally uninvolved in their children’s education. Kids don’t learn all by themselves! And teachers have so many to juggle in average sized schools

[@vegetashairline3060]

Same here, by the 5th grade me and my best friend were reading The Lord of The Rings in it's in entirety in our free time, and discussing the differences between the books and the movies. I can't even imagine not being able to read at all, and we were average students at our local public school!

[@steelgames1385]

I’m from Canada and I can confirm that something like this is also happening. I was able to read the entire Harry Potter saga and understand it when I was in primary school. Nowadays when I talk to kids this young, they can’t even have meaningful conversations with me (not all of them, but most of them) and they say that they don’t want to read their 50 pages books because they are too boring. I was lucky to only get a phone when I turned 16. Now, most kids have one by the time they are ten. Honestly I’m really scared for the future. How will we be able to do anything regarding important thing like climat change if most of the population can’t understand or pay attention to anything?

[@steelgames1385]

On top of that, kids that need help are put in the same class as other kids, and class are becoming bigger and bigger. Honestly, I don’t know how humanity will survive the next hundred year. I also fear for things like democracy, the few that won’t be moron will probably not all be good people. If Hitler was able to convince an entire nation to commit atrocities, I don’t think that it will be that hard to convince people that are the equivalent of 7 grader mentally to commit atrocities. There is a movie named the Wave that illustrate that kind of process and how easily it can happen.

[@maxipaddvideos]

Same, I mean I was lost in books. I bet if my parents left at a restaurant and I was reading a book I probably wouldn’t notice.

[@Ijustusethistocommentstuff]

I mean, the lack of reading among kids is also due to the fact that it is MUCH harder to find a book that a kid might enjoy, over something like a movie or game. You can see snippets of gameplay, or a trailer for a movie, anywhere, but there just isn't that kind of thing for books. Scholastic book fair trailers, maybe, but nothing like a movie trailer or anything. Back of the book descriptions don't really help, either, as some don't even talk about the book, and just show reviews. That's not even mentioning the fact that stores don't really have that great of collections, and book stores are becoming rarer and rarer. Kids just aren't exposed to as many books as before. It's a problem not just with the kids or parents, but with the marketing and production of books. I think, if I had to suggest a solution, an Ebook service in the same vein as Netflix, with detailed descriptions of the novels, would genuinely help in this regard. Kindle Unlimited, while being decent, REALLY suffers from Amazon having the worst web design I have seen, which limits exposure to the novels greatly. Something actually well made would be a godsend, alongside good tablets for reading E-books for cheap.

[@jamiejoyner3727]

If I was the ballet teacher, I’d say “please try to teach your child some manners just because she doesn’t listen when I just ask her to sit in her spot” if the parent gives me crap “sorry ma’am but I can’t keep you and your child in this class anymore

[@jamiejoyner3727]

Also by the way I didn’t mean this in any hate to the teacher this is just what I would do

[@wusscake]

Then they call the principle and rat you out, getting you reprimanded or even fired.

[@musicbunny1490]

I was in a dual enrollment english class, only junior in that senior class, and it was pretty much constant and healthy debates in there. So many of us could see that these kids coming up through the school were becoming menaces because of a variety of stuff. We'd hear from the teachers in the middle schools and the elementary schools that we loved that they are straight up getting bullied for asking kids to do basic things. We felt so bad for our high school teachers because we would relay this information to them and just see the joy leave their eyes.

[@Iaminpain-le3wo]

As a 13 year old who can write sentences, I apologise for my peers.

[@JustSAM_67]

Ikr if they can't even form sentences how will they write essays? How will they learn trigonometry?

[@valxark]

​@@JustSAM_67im 14 and i can also write sentences. And im glad i wasn't born in gen alpha. But being born in gen z is not too bad atleast i wasn't exposed to smartphones when i was way younger and had a normal childhood!! But yeah gen alpha's education is real doomed

[@bettafish541]

​@@JustSAM_67that's the thing, they won't.

[@ArimaSenne1]

@@valxark Don't worry, education is just brainwashing

[@AveragePyroMain]

same

[@TVindustries5000]

People used to say TV rots your brain. And we forgot about that. Now we carry it with us anywhere and theres no real filter in what they see.

[@Eliasthescumbag]

my parents never let me watch anything other than the disney junior channel

[@evacody1249]

Actually, we used to have educational shows. So we had our parents teaching us plus the shows. We also had a lot more to do out side of the home.

[@zierragacha5089]

TV's better than brainrot anyways

[@nerdypenguin9164]

This genuinely makes me want to sob in pity and anger. These poor kids are doomed.

[@Aisha-Nyxn]

LITERALLY SAME!!! The sadness and absolute genuine worry and concern I have for Gen Alpha just... CAN'T BE UNERESTIMATED!!

[@ConservativeGrouch]

@@Aisha-Nyxn Well, I'm past my sixties, and I still can't read or write in Russian or Polish.

[@Aisha-Nyxn]

@@ConservativeGrouch I see... but this is different. Some kids being given their electronics too early and then suffering developmental issues as a result :(

[@ashisthecoolest]

@@Aisha-Nyxn dont give up hope theres gen alpha that can read!

[@Aisha-Nyxn]

@@ashisthecoolest I know and I'm glad there is :)

[@wholekilogramofbutter480]

i think whats happening with gen alpha parents is that so many millennials hated how extremely strictly boomers raised them, and decided that when they had kids they wouldn’t do that. but most of them went off the deep end and gave them NO restrictions at all

[@GauravSidh]

Nah what is happening is gen Z is over exaggerating the situation and acting like they didn’t suck at reading too as 20 years ago they had the exact same reading lvl as gen alpha and gen Z on average has a longer screen time.

[@CookieRunLee]

I’m a seventh grader currently, and I can attest to this. Most of my classmates can’t read a portion in a book we are reading without struggling. They won’t even let my Spanish teacher teach and now she wants to quit. And then they act like they did nothing. I feel bad for the future generations that will have to deal with adults who never truly passed the fourth grade.

[@V0lcan000]

I had this experience 7 years ago. It's not new, the working conditions for teachers have been bad for a while. It's about the parents not spending enough time to care for their kids, leaving some more behind than others

[@YungNah-t8f]

Throwing rocks and hiding hands is a tale as old as time

[@21Shells]

Thats crazy, people who are my age as kids remember picking out books at the school library and being excited to read them by the next week. 😅 Though I remember in the first secondary school I went to in year 7, kids were really disruptive though this wouldnt have been from phones / social media, as most people around then would have been getting their very first smartphone.

[@starrpawz1385]

I'm also a seventh grader, and the majority of my classmates are reading on a first grade level. FIRST. GRADE. There's also very few students (including me) on an eighth grade reading level.

[@CookieRunLee]

@@starrpawz1385 :(

[@itsjustmyopinionbut1671]

Parents should be parenting more actively than ever these days but the problem is that they’re parenting more passively than ever before. Kids need guidance, discipline, structure, AND ACCOUNTABILITY! Not iPads, vrs, or social media! TikTok is raising kids, not the parents.

[@slamopfpnoobneverunsub5362]

Wait, I had a crazy idea What happens if TikTok became a parent-like AI and helps him in progressing in life instead of all the cringe?

[@itsjustmyopinionbut1671]

@@slamopfpnoobneverunsub5362 sounds like a nightmare tbh 😩🤣

[@TSMSnation]

Blame everyone. Do nothing. Go about day. Profit?

[@YellowstoneKevin]

You assume parents. Most of the time it’s a single mother. Sorry it’s the truth. Fatherless homes are criminal manufacturing plants.

[@SokkingBTtulaj]

@@slamopfpnoobneverunsub5362 it's owned by China, never gonna happen

[@artOVtrolling]

My gen alpha daughter was reading and writing before kindergarten. My 2 year old son already counts to 20. I think the problem likely has more to do with the parents’ screen time than it does the kids’ screen time. Put the phone down and educate and interact with your kids so they can actually learn and develop. If you think school is gonna handle that for ya, may god have mercy on your children.

[@squidlipssupreme168]

I'm guessing your white.

[@sedalia9356]

Absolutely true. My oldest is 30 and youngest 4. Tech has actually helped the younger kids learn faster. Parents get the first blame, second, the woke school system and unions.

[@artOVtrolling]

@@sedalia9356 100%. The fact that there are so many external forces that are blatantly harmful and detrimental to children means that your role as a parent and teacher at HOME is even more critical than it used to be. If you are putting in the time and making an honest attempt to instill curiosity and real virtue in your children, they will at least be somewhat insulated against all the corrupting forces out in the world. Also, your kids will love you if you give them your attention and be the guide they need. I think it’s a pretty safe assumption that kids that grow up hating their parents are the ones most likely to be swayed by the critical theory bullshit and this cancerous moral relativism (and you can’t blame them if you didn’t define morality for them).

[@fujster]

You have to talk to your kid 247 and stimulate them in the right way lol

[@SuperStella1111]

Why? Why isn’t your daughter outside, playing? In Finland, you don’t learn to read until you’re seven.

[@gamercream9791]

Even tho I’m 12, I’m happy to be raised by parents who give me novels and stories. I first heard brainrot from my best friend from 9 years and I was like “what are you speaking??” He is still an amazing bsf but he speaks like this sometimes in front of me and my bro (he is really smart btw he ain’t THAT corrupted). My classmate speaks it, I don’t know most words of brainrot.

[@ViviJoooooo]

Just came across this video and I have to agree so hard. My 13 year old niece cannot for the life of her, put together an entire sentence, her vocabulary is so bad she's constantly looking for words. And I'm not talking about difficult words or specific definitions I'm talking about day to day small talk. She uses the filler word "uh" MORE than her actual vocabulary. And it's all thanks to my sister giving her a screen from a very young age and never restricting her whatsoever. Her grades are HORRIBLE and she has no attention span whatsoever. Whenever she gets frustrated or isn't good at school material immediately, she quits entirely and doesn't wanna work anymore. At this point her reading level is embarrassing for a girl her age and no matter how many times we try and reason with her, to study more and try to keep up, she just doesn't wanna listen cause "I don't need to I've got a phone".

[@AlolaChamp]

As a 2010 Gen Z, I grew up on Nick jr. Sesame street and PBS kids. I also touched grass and didn't have an iPad until i was 11. It is sad to see how a person 1 year younger than me has less of a vocabulary than I did at that age.

[@SELAMAQ123]

İ am a 2010 gen z too and i remember being on the street all day with the neighbors kids.I had an tablet and i was using it whenever the neighbors kids wasnt here or watch some goofy minecraft videos bruh​@@AlolaChamp

[@Gigi0990]

@@AlolaChampsame 2010

[@daisy.stylessz1]

I’m literally the same age - if not younger - than this person and this is shocking. I can’t believe somebody not being able to put together a sentence at the age of like 7, LET ALONE 13. Years. Old. It is stupid for kids to not be able to read, I grew up with a tablet and iPod, then moving on to iPads and phones, but I couldn’t imagine not being able to read, write or speak properly, I’m genuinely disappointed in my generation 😢😔

[@LurkingintheShadows_1]

@@AlolaChamp Hey, I am born in 2010 too! I'm finally allowed to be on any social media! It's really peculiar upon how my some of my peers are just... Illiterate. I find it difficult to cooperate with my group mates because I somehow always end up doing everything in our group activities when it's towards literature, writing, and just English in general. Not only English, but also Science and Math. I literally could not latch on how they can not even form simple sentences that are basically in the level of Grade 1. On the side note, English is not our mother tongue, but come on! WE'RE IN A PRIVATE SCHOOL! I apologize if I burst out outrageously, but I just couldn't grasp this new reality.

[@bedroombunny9529]

I can truly empathise with the ballet teacher because I am in a similar situation. I teach Music, specifically Piano, to students of all ages. Both her and I teach extracurricular subjects meaning parents have to pay MORE MONEY and spend MORE TIME engaging in our lessons. I have had so many students that do not know basic words or be able to do basic math. How the hell can I teach students to play and read music if you cannot count?! Counting is one of the fundamental requirements of music, even if you only learn by ear. I have one girl in my class who despite not being the most naturally talented is one of my best students, why? Because I have met her parents and they are VERY strict about how long she can spend on the family iPad. She must complete all her school work AND piano homework AND read at least 1-2 chapters of her book before she is allowed to have time on social media. Parents, please listen. The most caring and loving act you can perform for your child is preparing them for the future. This means you will not always be their friend and they might be angry with you. Take away the phones, turn off the TV, and sit down with them to do their homework. If you let social media and the internet raise your children you are abusive and I will call you as such.

[@Jala_peno]

I'm in 8th grade, working at my grade level, and get at least a B in all of my subjects. I draw and play music, as well. Why? because when I was little (about 2nd grade) my parents took away all of the devices from me, and began to discipline me. Before that, I was really spoiled, and had little respect, even for that age. I would not be here if they had not taken them away from me, and start to teach me respect. Kids do not get near enough discipline. I constantly get compliments from people, saying things like "wow, you're really respectful!" just because I use "yes ma'am." While I do have some internet access, it is very limited, as it should be. And I am a better person because of it.

[@jasonlee8156]

And the parents are paying the ballet teacher to teach their children how to dance? Why should they if they don't really give a sh++++ about them learning anything in their ballet class?

[@kawaiigirl1482]

I completely agree. I was born in 2009 and was 4 when my mom got her first iPhone. I’ve always had a traditional family that thought “never throw it out unless it’s broken” so I grew up being the only kid in class who watched Disney movies on VHS and knew how to use a rotary phone. My family had an iPad that my grandpa used for work, but aloud my brother and I to plays games on it. We were ADDICTED to it. My mom finally noticed how much is was affecting us, so at age 5 she put the same strict limits the parents in @bedroombunny9529 comment did. I’m 14 and still don’t have a phone and a video game console has never entered my house, though I do have an iPad and chromebook for school. I’ve noticed that I am far more intelligent and mature than my classmates. I still remember this girl in my class crying because her parents took away her phone for the weekend and the teacher pointed at me saying “how would you like to be her? She doesn’t even HAVE a phone!”

[@Laserface99]

As a 8th grader, I don’t study ever and I’m on my iPad for almost the entire day everyday, BUT im very invested in my future career etc etc, and I just wanna say the kids in my classes dude- they are so freaking stupid. All they do is swear or make dirty aaa jokes. So annoying man. Also my lexile measure is 11th grade + but I’m not even in an advanced math class since you have to take a test on the next math grade. But I have ADHD and the worst memory on earth. Also I don’t study!! So my friends who used 5th grades easy math skills as a gateway into PACE classes, are learning better than me, someone invested in my future despite not wanting to study, is stuck trying to learn algebra, pre, and other junk at once while also having a trash memory and low attention span. School is fun aint it? I hate this generation. (Disclaimer I don’t use TikTok or any TikTok terms and I never will)

[@Laserface99]

Also I don’t own a phone only an iPad I don’t have a pc either

[@MsWhtup]

I honestly feel bad for the ballet teacher, you can clearly see she was on the verge of tears and her passion for teaching ballet was obviously thrown out the window.

[@defokochuan]

Real.. I feel so bad for her she looked like she was about to cry. And I know that the kids don’t even care which makes it even worse.

[@urfavm0112]

yeah and shes giving her best effort but these kids won tlisten

[@nisansalajayaweera9762]

Ballet is very hard and you need to put a lot of effort into it , even to become a teacher ... And all of her efforts are wasted

[@KennedyWoodruff]

The kids should be considered lucky cause if it was my mom teaching the class she would ah put the kids or the parents in there place like the ballet teacher is patient some teachers ain’t gonna be like that

[@Distraction3]

She a baddie fr

[@SkyKid-0]

12:35 i feel bad for her

[@ThruHerEyes]

I feel like the majority of the problem is definitely caused by technology and parents refusing to parent- but another huge thing is schools just pushing students along, i was a victim of being pushed along in the school system. I personally asked my principals (this happened at multiple different schools) to be held back because I knew i wouldnt be able to work at grade level the next year, every time without fail i was told that being pushed along would help me learn faster or that they couldnt fail me because it would damage the schools reputation of passing literally everyone… fast foreward to the first day of highschool, i had absolutely no fucking clue what was happening in ANY of my classes and for whatever reason wasnt able to join any ‘special’ or lower level classes. My social anxiety at that point was so bad that i barely made it to school so i was put on this weird booklet program- they give you a 30 some odd page booklet that you can do at home, my first booklet happened to be the subject english…. FULL OF TYPOS, SPELLING ERRORS AND FUCKING GRAMMATICAL ERRORS! Yes i brought this up to the person in charge of this program, no- absolutely nothing was done. And all the other booklets i got had the same problems and 15 year old me eventually got absolutely fed up with trying so i dropped out. Now im 19 preforming at like an 8-9th grade level on most subjects. Thank you mrs Yee and ms thinbel for continuously pushing me through to the next grade to “further my education”

[@helixxia9320]

this is so so sad i wish you had gotten more specialized care and learning since that is what would have helped you in the long run. rather than just have on paper that you passed this and that even though you didnt understood a thing. very similar thing happened to me i still struggle too. i have dyslexia and adhd and i got little to no real help

[@Austinshgdb]

This has happened to me too. And because of it, I’m below average in math. Like in the level of grade 5

[@athena2229]

My father is a grade 7/8 teacher and he always tells me how pissed he is that he can’t fail kids. Idk about other places but where i am, you can’t “fail” until high school

[@smallxplosion9546]

The system isn’t even structured to help people learn, it’s structured to get people to become more efficient with factory work, because for some reason it hasn’t changed since the Industrial Revolution

[@brma8888]

The clip of the parent giving their 1 year old an Ipad and trying to explain how its a good thing makes my blood boil so much.

[@_byxl.0nc3_]

for real.

[@mikolmikolmikol]

5 year olds having ipads are bad enough but 1?! they can’t even say a sentence!

[@dragonmage7980]

Unrestricted access to the internet and technology should legally count as child abuse

[@Tepsu]

I've made it into college. Seeing that I was only a few years away from being in a generation that can't even read or write is genuinely scary. I'm worried for the future now because Gen Alpha isn't going to be functional. It is 100% the parents fault. Teachers are not going to force your children to cooperate. They didn't for my generation and the won't for the next ones.

[@pakenhamin]

How many of these homes are fatherless?

[@pakenhamin]

How many of these homes are fatherless?

[@pakenhamin]

How many of these homes are fatherless?

[@Soda_Bobinski]

reported for spam@@pakenhamin

[@doohickey-enjoyer]

I'm on the very edge of gen alpha-gen z (14) and I absolutely agree. I'm so glad that my parents (and grandparents) actually knew how to teach myself and my siblings how to be people. Terrifying how dumb little kids are now.

[@1rl.v1nc3ntcharb0nneu]

Ngl I see this every day I come into school. Kids are either struggling to read or spell simple words or just not comprehending anything. In my opinion, I think it’s either they just spend THAT much time on social media or it’s because the pandemic made it harder to learn for two years straight and they can’t get back on track.