The Education System Has Failed Gen Alpha TERRIBLY...

[@jerlinej3516]

Our government is making it harder and harder to have kids. The increase in income inequality and the decrease in school funding, it’s like they’re asking for the birth rate to plummet.

[@gudaguda5523]

Only a populist problem, political elites got workarounds. the plan is to make the population souless and idiotic so is simple to contorl, of cores elites are not in the population in there perspective, sound just like the white capitalist devils love

[@JulianSteve]

Honestly because this is stressful. No one’s going to want to have children in these circumstances🫤

[@kindallnight1615]

Yeah and the only reason our population won’t decline is because of immigrants but most people will opt out of having kids let alone a pet.

[@mrmrpineapple6542]

Then with all the anti-abortion stuff its just going to harm women and have more kids with hard starts to life that aren't their faults.

[@AnniePoop2003]

It’s really starting to feel like the end days💔💔🖤🖤

[@jayde1009]

I’m a 6th grade teacher, these kids have no empathy, they’re bullies they say the most evil and vile things to me. And I barely get my planning periods any more due to the national sub shortage, so I’m usually watching an absent teachers class

[@jayde1009]

Which in turn means I barely get to make lessons and the principals do not care. They just want the kids contained at this point

[@Viperness]

They need a punishment of some sort.

[@WarpedKarma6471]

@@Vipernessvery much so. They need a taste of the real world, not just what tiktok tells them is the real world.

[@kindallnight1615]

@@WarpedKarma6471lol gen alpha aren’t on tik tok tho

[@T404-i9w]

​@@kindallnight1615 you think 6th graders aren't on tiktok?

[@RamboQuellz]

Not just school the parents also. Sitting on the couch scrolling while their child is on the floor looking at a tablet, no engagement with their kids at all.

[@WarpedKarma6471]

Honestly that's what I think it causing the most problems with this generation. They see their parents prioritize technology so they prioritize technology. Neither have an attention span and neither even think to hold back on scrolling.

[@JulianSteve]

@@WarpedKarma6471 Agreed! I believe this is a factor too. Parents (including their guardians) need to interact with children more😅

[@kindallnight1615]

Yup parents are as addicted to it as the kids so it’s about healthy boundaries which get overlooked by parents

[@lenoraelaine]

Exactly ... the first issue!

[@raze2012_]

@@JulianSteve Aight. Raise the parents pay so they don't take 2+ jobs, switch to a 32 hour work week so parents got time to spend with kids, and bring back 3rd places for parents to take their kids to instead of tearing down playgrounds. Any time now...

[@Nonofyabidnessbih]

As a teacher and Gen Z’er myself, I can tell you, the problem with these kids today (well, the majority of them) is that they are teaching themselves life via technology and have no real context to anything. They don’t understand consequences because they are rarely disciplined at home, and can’t connect the dots of right and wrong themselves. Many of them lack critical thinking skills and they have no real desire to learn anything because they can google it all. I gave my 8th grade history class a creative speech assignment from the perspective of an angry colonist who needs to start a rebellion against Britain. Some of these kids used A.I. and thought it would go unnoticed that their speech was talking about “Grassroots organizing to fight against economic and educational inequality using robust dialogue.” It was a speech set in Boston 1770. Really? So they shortcut everything without really understanding why they are shortcutting anything. Upper Gen Z at least knew the end goal was college and a career. Lower Gen Z and Gen Alpha don’t gaf about any of that.

[@RamboQuellz]

Appreciate all that you try to do! 🙌🙏

[@kindallnight1615]

Exactly thank the lord I’m upper gen z

[@davidbosley7126]

@@kindallnight1615 Same i'm 2005 and i'm like right in the middle of gen z and graduated high school this year, now a first year Computer Science student at a university.

[@furyberserk]

Personally, as a student that graduated at 2010 highschool, nothing you said was something teachers aided kids with.

[@kindallnight1615]

@@davidbosley7126 That’s good to hear!!

[@nadiuhh98]

my bf is an educator and its taking a huge toll on his mental health. the effects of the pandemic + social media has been absolutely catastrophic for public schools

[@Viperness]

I hope he's doing well.

[@willharris1040]

Yeah it's about time we change it up and try to help instead of just passing them along till high school where we get these scary stats if your kid can't read that don't just get moved along they stay in that grade till you and your child figure it out EVERY CHILD LEAVE BEHIND IF THEY CANT READ!

[@JulianSteve]

@@willharris1040 This is not the way to go. Doing this repeatedly holds a child behind drastically. What schools need to do is teach children equally. Some students learn faster than others and that’s okay. No child should be shamed for learning at a different rate🤷🏾‍♂️💯

[@amyleigh7624]

​@@JulianSteve You can't hold everyone back for the slowest kid.

[@niqhtt]

As a 7th/8th grade elective teacher... the number that can't read well enough or pay attention well enough to do audio/video is insane. They cannot work on their own, they want you to tell them every step of the way because as soon as they read the first sentence of the instructions... all I get is, "I don't understand". They will not stop talking, will not sit down, and this year I have had 3 broken mice, 2 broken monitors, a dozen broken headphones, and lots of stolen legos (for stop motion). Also, out of 121 students, 70 of them have accommodation paperwork that there is no way I can actually do.

[@TheBlackPanther05]

Never have I ever felt more fearful and sad for a generation's future more than Gen Alpha. If they are already this bad with the lack of parenting and the brain rot from the Ipads, I can only imagine how much worse their education is going to be now that the Department of Education is going to be dismantled with unqualified people who have no idea what the hell they're even doing.

[@landodiaz5517]

So u feel sad for this generation with the education system they already have, and have had due to the left. But your even more sad that the system is going to get completely changed and maybe for the better? Let’s see the effects of this new system first before we start crying about it. People wanna be scared of something so bad

[@user-ld5ep2bp8w]

The department of education has radically failed. Let the state handle their schools

[@kindallnight1615]

@@user-ld5ep2bp8wmy dude if the states already fail to address their own problems than allowing states to manage education is bound to lead to more problems.

[@blubbydragon5381]

@@user-ld5ep2bp8wThe DoE has been failing because of neglect and purposefully bad management, but it’s certainly a better option than letting a state like Florida or Oklahoma manage their own education systems. Arkansas has literally been trying to repeal child labor laws. States like that are so screwed that letting them have control over their education will only lead to worse outcomes.

[@kaelin_cherise]

​@blubbydragon5381 Alaska's school board called a meeting to ban a board-certified OBGYN's videos from being considered educational material because she used the medical terms for anatomy- which is apparently inherently S-xual? And told the truth, as provided from a litany of peer-reviewed studies on abor-ion, different methods of protection and their effectiveness, and the truth behind medications like Plan B. They considered her content akin to Corn with a P. Do not give this back to States.

[@nai-ts13ga21]

im 13, a lot of the kids are also really mean. they can be incredibly vile and they’re also just disrespectful: walking out, yelling, cursing at teachers, etc. it sucksss

[@davidthebest3443]

kids been mean for decades

[@mr.spaceman7106]

​@@davidthebest3443 Kids have been mean forever, but it does seem different nowadays with the internet. Kids just seem less empathetic since COVID, and more detached.

[@davidthebest3443]

@@mr.spaceman7106 if KZbin was less popular today I swear people wouldn’t be talking about Gen Alpha

[@mr.spaceman7106]

@@davidthebest3443 Maybe not as much, but all generations talk about other generations. I try not to say things every other generation says about the next, but the issues Gen Alpha are expressing seem to be a direct result of the internet so it would make sense we are talking about it on the internet

[@mr.spaceman7106]

@@davidthebest3443 The tantrums, iPads, anti-intellectualism are issues other generations have just literally never experienced before

[@crashb800]

In ancient times, some slaves would get what would be called a “slaves education” where they would learn some practical skills such as knowledge of geometry so they could do tasks like building like their masters wanted. They specifically were NOT educated in philosophy and art because these slave masters specifically did not want to give the slave the intellectual framework that would allow them to escape and combat slavery (keep mind that being a slave in Ancient Greek or Roman times looked very different to the chattel slavery that many people of especially African descent would be put under many centuries later, it was still slavery nonetheless). This new education stuff seems rather similar. These rich bastards do not want the masses to have the intellectual ability to challenge the system which gives them so much power.

[@DarkShadowStudiosYT1]

💯

[@darkfemme4914]

Exactly, todays education was based on factory workers and assembly line jobs so they know how to take orders and question nothing. The modern sl@very is working for corporations. They don't want people to be able to critically think for themselves.

[@violetnichols7465]

This is so true. I've never thought about it like that. People really need to understand this more.

[@char6081]

beautifully said. u taught me sum today, i love learning stuff on the internet

[@the-aud-one]

This is exactly what I was thinking!! Don't get me wrong, being in the trades doesn't mean you're dumb, and we do need more trades people, but we also need the common person to have access to education. Not everyone needs to be a highly educated intellectual, but when *no one* is, that's the kind of landscape that fascism thrives under. For example, the Nazis did mass book burnings and destroyed art they didn't like. Does that mean we live in Nazi Germany? Absolutely not. But when the public doesn't know any better, historically speaking, is when the government can more easily get away with terrible, terrible things

[@DaughterofDiogenes]

Also school f*cking sucks for literally everyone. No one likes being there anymore. I was actually teaching my 5th graders and my class was taken away and I was placed with the worst 1st graders in the building. I’ve never worked with 1st graders and I didn’t want to. They wanted me to yell at the kids. They wanted me to punish them and write them up. They wanted the kids to sit silently in the class. My class was loud. We had so much fun. I had people coming into my class telling me that they’ve never seen fifth graders that engage in all the years that they’ve been teaching. And then they move me into first grade . I was told by other teachers in the building that they knew they had taken the worst first graders out of all the other first grade classes, and put them in my class. When I went to the principal and said I could not work with that grade because I felt like it was unsafe for them because I had no idea how to control these kids it was completely insane. I would have up to three adults in the classroom and we could not get these kids under control. She told me that there was no other position available for me meanwhile, my fifth grade class is sitting upstairs with a series of substitute teachers that is screaming and yelling at them and they’re no longer doing any English work. They took a licensed teacher from fifth grade who was loving the students and who the students loved out of the classroom and put a series of subs up there, this teachers are leaving the classroom

[@lexyred6289]

@@DaughterofDiogenes yes I’m in the school system as an afterschool administrator and it doesn’t make sense when the school moves teachers from classrooms when the kids are finally learning. The system is broken and I don’t blame teachers for leaving the field.

[@Mia-nk1kg]

This seems more like a US problem than a worldwide issue

[@DaughterofDiogenes]

@ exactly. In the US, people do not care at all about education and the ones that do have created their own educational system that blocks anyone they don’t want from entering. We have private schools for the elite, charter schools for the socioeconomically advantaged and the shitty add public schools for everyone else who doesn’t have a clue. I guarantee if I go get a teaching job at the segregation academy up the street I would absolutely love my job. I would have so much support, so much downtime. So many gifts and appreciation from the wealthy parents. It would be a completely different experience than any of the charter of public schools I worked at. The kids are full of joy and love being in school. A complete 180 from the public schools in my district

[@janari101]

Insane. Pray for these kids

[@princessjello]

​@@DaughterofDiogenescharter schools are only partially paid. Orrupt politicians took money from public achools to fund charters and stuff their own pocketbooks

[@Turbo_Waitress]

I was a teacher for ten years. It was exhausting then and I quit before the pandemic. When I started, they gave us a quote that 50% of new teachers burn out in five years. I’m sure that number is much higher now. I’m so worried for kids coming up now, as well as their overworked teachers. Late Gen-Z and Gen Alpha and beyond deserve so much better than all of this.

[@amyleigh7624]

I quit a couple of years ago. Normal burnout was at 3 years.

[@AthenaBadassSinorita]

Hello! I am a gen alpha currently in the education system , and I would like to formally apologize for my peers. A lot are really despicable people, I have been being harassed and bullied since 2nd grade also I’m kinda scared because I want to learn. And I don’t want to be dumb. I hope these plans don’t go through

[@matth8985]

No need to apologize for something that you aren't responsible for! That sucks being bullied, some kids are cruel, but it doesn't matter. I was bullied too, and the advice "just don't let it affect you" sounds dumb, if not impossible l, but dang I wish I followed it more. Being sure in yourself from a young age is difficult, but it really is a superpower. As far as wanting to learn, more than what the education system will push you towards, I would recommend reading books, watching educational videos, and immersing yourself in academic things even if they seem "too advanced" or "too old." Some of it will be, but it's worth pushing yourself to learn and grow more than the bare minimum that school will push you. Good luck!

[@ekate7779]

I'm sorry you faced this situation, remember, as long as you insist what you consider right, time will show us who is correct after all this.

[@lexyred6289]

@@AthenaBadassSinorita Athena. Things will get better. I promise. Study hard and learn and read about topics that interest you. Kids who are bullies often come from bad homes and bad parenting. Has nothing to do with you. Focus on what you’re good at and what you enjoy. Before you know it you’ll be done with high school and off to hopefully a college with a major you’re excited about.

[@alittleblawg]

aww Athena, don’t worry about apologizing - it’s not your fault it’s the parents fault on how they raise their children and the economy’s fault with how tired parents are just trying to survive. I’m so sorry you are being bullied! Remember how people treat you and what they say to you is often that persons way of airing out their own insecurities and anger about their life or themselves and has absolutely nothing to do with you. You sound like an exceptional person with lots of awareness and kindness in your heart, and a good head on your shoulders! And you don’t sound dumb at all, but in fact quite the opposite.

[@Cless]

You shouldnt say your age on the internet mane

[@junkoe119]

My kid is gen alpha. My husband and I are invested in his schoolwork. He usually gets 100s on his work and scores above average on standardized tests. There only like 2 other students in a class of 30 on the same level. His teacher is stressed and so is her aide. Unfortunately many parents either don’t have the time or the skills to help their students. I’m also a former HS teacher who is finishing up a science-based degree because the stress and lack of resources are not worth it. Learning happens in both the classroom and the home-home being the main enforcer, and that isn’t happening.

[@emiliereal1520]

This is accurate. Parents don’t have the time to help their kids anymore. I was lucky I had my dad when I was younger, but that’s since changed. If parents didn’t have to work so much, then they would have the time to invest into their child’s school life. It’s not something to be just blamed on the school system and parents, but how the society is built as well!

[@CuteAnimeGirl]

I'm a Millennial and my parents didn't have time to read to me. I learned to read from playing video games like Pokemon, Final Fantasy, and such. I don't know if many games kids play nowadays enforce reading. I remember asking my parents what words meant in these games. I also grew up with books since we had nothing like ipads and computers were considered luxury for rich people in the 90's.

[@Autbeen]

Plus, our schools aren’t safe. The US is a world leader in schools shootings. As a student, my biggest fear is that my school is in a shooting. The fact that you could bring anything into a school is scary

[@pizzapartytime1826]

It’s not the guns fault. The people who do it know it’s not a serve punishment.

[@fedethegreat88]

​@@pizzapartytime1826Wdym "know it's not serve punishment" I actually cannot decipher meaning from those words

[@pizzapartytime1826]

@ It means what it says. They know they most likely won’t get life in jail. Or only 1 hour out of their cell a day. Sentences need to be harsher.

[@fedethegreat88]

@@pizzapartytime1826 You mean like "the people who do it know they won't get a severe punishment?" your wording is what threw me off not the intended meaning.

[@fedethegreat88]

@@pizzapartytime1826 Also most people who do shootings either know they will die to the police or are planning on giving themselves a dose of lead too. This argument is just wrong. People don't terrorize schools for fun or anything like that.

[@Dancin-pf5bl]

As a highschool student rn I can honestly say first hand nobody has common sense,critical thinking skills, and cant mentally function at all. Most of my teachers started off as industrial workers, got laid off and now they teach, so most dont care about the kids.

[@valentinafangirling]

Absolutely agree on everything you said. I realized how NOT okay the kids are when i saw a 15 year old on Twitter running a stan account for BUSH and it was NOT ironic. And I have been thinking how bad media literacy is for years, but my wake up call was discourse around Avatar the last air bender Netflix series. People truly saying Zuko wasn’t an agent benefiting on the genocide his family caused just because he was abused by his dad. Now even with wicked some takes are…. Rough. Media literacy is bad. Arguably at an international level. Is scary.

[@mvsicl0ver]

I'm 14, but my younger brother is Gen Alpha being 6 and he can't go anywhere without an iPad, always having tantrums, doesn't listen, and is always hitting people. Now don't get me wrong he is really smart for his age, and he is autistic, but that still doesn't excuse his behavior. I try talking to my parents about it but they don't listen to me.

[@MsPrice-pn2py]

You are a blessing♥️. Be patient with him and love him. Please just take him outside. He will hate you now, but love you later

[@supermarionicholas931]

Same I have an Ipad Kid Brother who is 15 and he can't go anywhere without an Ipad. Ipad on scooter. Ipad in bathroom. Ipad in the bathtub on the sink top. Ipad everywhere.

[@davidthebest3443]

take the ipad away and discpline him if the parents don't listen do something about it

[@AlyssaTaylor9]

​@davidthebest3443 Nope, that's not his job, and discipling an autustic child isnt something he's equipped to do. He's 14, just 8 years older than the brother. It's more likely that his parents will get angry at him for "discipling" their son.

[@mvsicl0ver]

@@AlyssaTaylor9 I'm actually a girl but lol 😭

[@x2stray247]

I'm in 9th grade and most of the people in my class just walk out, scream in class, talk 3 seconds after the teacher tells them to be quiet or just fight in class its crazy out here

[@x2stray247]

My Spanish teacher in 8th grade almost quit cause it was so bad

[@nai-ts13ga21]

yess fr!! like a lot of the kids are also so rude and they’re js disrespectful

[@IzdiharMoolla]

I hate coming to school because of the toxic environment the other kids make it. I can't learn in a classroom with 16 year olds who can even stay in their seat and be quite.

[@koaxa4574]

it’s gotta be a mix of the effects of the pandemic, social media, and honestly parenting. sooo many people who have kids should not have kids. parents just do not care what their kids do and if someone tries to criticize their parenting they get incredibly defensive. i mean i get it. parenting is hard but if you’re not prepared DO NOT have kids

[@saffron_skys]

Then they put the loud and obnoxious kids right next to quiet kids who need quiet to learn. The last time I had a quiet class was in the 5th grade

[@DaughterofDiogenes]

I just quit my teaching job 2 weeks ago. One of the number one reasons that kids can’t read is because their parents don’t read to them. Full stop. Parents are depending entirely too much on tv and tablets to raise their kids. We have kids coming into the school system who don’t even know their real name. Can’t spell it, don’t know the alphabet, don’t know any numbers. Are being raised in a house full of adults sitting around being adults so the kids have no idea what a kid is even supposed to do. I used to work at a behavioral clinic and I will say the number one issue I saw there is that there are a bunch of parents who have kids that they hate. It’s not clear to me why they even got married or had kids. And alot of dad’s who hate that their kid might be neurodivergent. It was so sad. Also we now have a tiered educational system in the US. The kids that can read all go to private or charter schools while all the rest go to their local public school. So there are kids that can read, they are just mostly segregated from the ones that can’t. It’s socioeconomic segregation full stop.

[@alexandru5369]

Yeah millennial Parents seem pretty awful and don't want too be parents

[@MK_ULTRA420]

The worst millennials are having the most kids and nobody cares.

[@b14alex09]

@@alexandru5369 I’m ashamed of my fellow millennial parents.

[@alexandru5369]

@@b14alex09 Yeah it's bad I'm, actually for "Gentle" parenting but a lot of Millennial parents seem very lazy. Remember the term " I pad kid" is because of our generation. The lack of discipline is appalling

[@kileyslife7541]

Very thankful that when I was a kid my mom used to read me a book every single night until I learned to read myself😊 Now kids my age (16) will not stop complaining in ELA about how long our class book is. It's only 100 pages! I was reading 100 page books in 4th grade! Wtf is going on

[@oc5297]

I teach at a very well off and high scored public school and we’ve recently had an influx of private school students and these children are way behind than their peers who began the public school education in Kindergarten

[@WarpedKarma6471]

That's interesting because I would have thought it to be the inverse.

[@X3nophiliac]

yeah people assume that private schools have stricter educations and they are held to a higher standard but in my and many teacher youtuber videos, thats wrong. they either have the same competency as public and just have religion classes 😆😆

[@V_4_Versace]

@@WarpedKarma6471a lot of the kids who come to public school after private are kids who got kicked out for not being smart enough, or having learning disabilities, or any number of things that made the private school look bad. Private schools aren’t better because of what they teach but because they can be selective about the students they bring in and keep, and they keep their classes small so they can dedicate all the time in the world to making them look like the best and brightest even though in reality most students who succeed in private school are the same ones that would in a public school setting too. It’s an artifice that private schools use to sucker parents, but there is nothing special about a private school that wouldn’t exist for all students if private schools didn’t exist and public schools were properly funded with all the money parents waste on them…

[@MOMENTSPASS-SHATTEREDGLASS]

yeah as a privrate school kid it might be worse, atleast in my school, we have each subject taught for 2 hrs a week, most of which being devotion and then the teacher rambling abt trans ppl or whatever made them upset on twitter that week, in my literature class appearently literally no one read the book, everyone is using ai for the essays and sometimes the teachers even encourage it bcos "it's a good resource" im sure alot of this is also happening in public schools, but it's pretty bad here

[@MOMENTSPASS-SHATTEREDGLASS]

sometimes parents put kids in private schools so that they can get a higher level of education, but in the schools ive been to (5 different christian private schools) it seems more like they put them in there so that they dont learn more, so that they dont meet different people with different views, so that they dont learn about things that go against their religion, to keep them in a bubble, even if it's at the cost of their education, most of these that ive been to you go to class 1-3 times a week and alot of times there are teachers with no degree, ive had teachers read the book that they were supposed to teach and decide they dont want to teach you about that for things like the black codes even though they specifically pick the most conservative books they can, they still dont want to teach the things in them if it means acknowledging things like the fact that racism exists and has existed (the black codes thing is a specific incident but these things happen all the time in these schools), classes dont stay on track and the teachers spend classtime ranting abt what made them upset (genuinely had a teacher complain for an hour during math once abt how disrespectful emoji valentines day cards are) or abt their opinions on what theyre teaching (things like "slavery wasnt that bad and shouldve been left alone bcos it wouldve fizzled out anyway", honestly history classes are full of these things), my experience isnt everyone's but im sure there are plenty of other religious private schools like this too and i really doubt parents put their kids into these for better education and opportunities

[@Evelyn_Okay]

This sht is dragging us right back to the feudal-era peasantry mindset. "Me Lordship gives me a job. I do as me Lordship asks so me Lordship doesn't throw me and me family into the street. Thank you, me Lordship. 🙏" The reason the rich didn't want the lower classes to read text and rely on "gods word" is because they're easier to manipulate.

[@phoenixrising4995]

Gods word, lots of people killed over gods word back in the feudal era. Also, Jim jones used religion.

[@joyasaxena9976]

This comment right here hit the nail on the head 👏

[@biblesforbreakfast]

​@@joyasaxena9976 yes but the Bible in the Middle ages was in Latin. Which only the church leaders could read or speak. So basically they could tell the peasants what ever they felt it meant and peasants would have no way to challenge it even if they wanted to.

[@lovely.little.poppet]

As an 8th grader, school is so disengaging, everything is online. Our notes, our books, our assignments, even our hall passes. People at my school are on their iPads during class, and I take advanced classes to be with kids that actually behave decently. My whole grade got iPads in kindergarten, and it’s scary to see kids walking in the hallways, necks bent, looking at iPads because they can’t spend two minutes away from them.

[@andrewreillymusic2773]

Well paper costs money and schools need to cut costs!

[@Insert_something_here]

I agree, this generation is absolutely scary and terrifying (I’m also an 8th grader so hello fellow middle schooler/high schooler lol) my siblings both have some sort of device (one got their’s at 8/9 and the other got their’s AT 3?!-) but to be fair I was also raised by a tablet to some extent but I do believe I was (somewhat) monitored, but in all honesty I’m fvcking terrified

[@lovely.little.poppet]

@@Insert_something_here I got my school iPad at 5 😭 we weren’t allowed to take them home, but the COVID hit so we had to

[@Insert_something_here]

@ I didn’t even know people got school Ipads😭😭

[@lovely.little.poppet]

@@Insert_something_here it’s so dystopian to be in class and watching everyone playing block blast while the teachers having a lecture 😭

[@marr6339]

My mother has been a 6th grade teacher for 29 years, she's retiring and moving on the kids are horrible, disrespectful and a lot of them are still reading on a 3rd grade level.

[@Zeppandzeep]

A 3rd grade level is crazy. I was on a high school level in 6th grade

[@Jabari-vm6jq]

As a 34 yr old who graduated from college during the early 2010s, I understand that Critical Thinking is largely a domain of Higher Education. Especially if you went to public schools. This is why I would never dare tell my nieces and nephews that "college ain't for everyone." College is THE ONLY option.

[@X3nophiliac]

i only had critical thinking taught to me at coo-ops and practical courses where we were making our own products. higher education RARELY teaches critical thinking and problem solving

[@nilmerg]

critical thought is something one must acquire through learning & exposure of various information. the ability to question things in the world is crucial, but the sad part is that kids, for some time now, don't feel incentivized or interested in questioning information they see. i was always very eager to ask questions or confirm understanding as a child, & peers would often get annoyed. other students would feel shy or not want to risk saying or asking "something stupid." in college, a lot of people seem "checked-out" of lectures or discussions. i can imagine that with the disruptive personalities in grade school now, they just don't see merit in deeper learning as they can just google or take things at face value. it's odd to me as someone who grew up googling things, because i've always just used it as a facet to search for more information on something i have questions about. searching to inform & retain, to research, rather than quick answers.

[@KatjeKat86]

I was actively discouraged from critical thinking when I K through 12. They just wanted us to be a little parrots. It was so bad when I was in middle school that they even wanted to dictate what are opinion piece articles were. It was so refreshing yet so hard to change my teaching from all those years when I went to college.

[@Njirimara]

Im from the Dominican Republic, and i was taught in a bilingual school that often had classes in both the United States standard and the Dominican standard, so i would have a "estudios sociales" class and a "social studies" class, and let me tell you, the things which were seen in one book and the other were not the same, the history that was omitted from the american book about actions the american government did to latam countries like establish dictatorships in the name of making sure communism doesnt spread, to banana republics and such it was crazy, likewise with the book about my country, a lot of the class was dissecting history beyond what the book said. Now i moved to the US and the history education here is even worse, many points omitted and a lot of actions put in a favorable light instead of how it really was, i really pray yall educate yourselves beyond what is said in the history classrooms, because apparently is going to get worse with the push towards private schools which teach from a more conservative and religious perspective, many of yall dont know how hard it was to even be able to teach evolution, or to keep religion out of classrooms and how easy it is to take it all away And the state of education in general... Only immigrants truly can understand teachers in how bad it is, ive seen first hand how much education has failed them, and im not saying that to be condescending, cuz a lot of those americans are now my friends and people i care a whole lot about

[@emiliereal1520]

This. I’m taking APUSH (AP United States History) and we barely have time to go over everything, and I feel like stuff is being omitted. It’s not my teacher’s fault I think, but the curriculum they have to teach.

[@Njirimara]

​@@emiliereal1520 I also took APUSH and is where im taking my comments of us history teached in high schools! I have great love for the teacher, however ap classes tend to be more about getting all the flashcards and specific events rather than learning indepth of whats going on, before taking apush, I was in normal US history for a few weeks and the proffesor was really good, she honestly gagged me sometimes, one time she said that before it was popular belief to become sovereign, the patriots wee seen as home terrorists, or something similar, and thats the type of no bs, history i want, all countries' history is filled with baggage, so let's disect that! history is so nuanced there isnt a black and white narrative much of the time. And I think youre right about stuff being omitted because when we got to the cold war part of the course it took a kind of black and white narrative that painted the USSR as machevillian and the US as saviours, which im not saying the USSR is amazing, quite the opposite, but only bits like the domino effect or mcarthyism were glossed over without fully expanding on how damaging they were to others, and things like the japanesse interment camps in ww2 were put by my proffesor and not by the guides, im just saying there is more nuance to be had, and no country acts 100% altruistically. And its worrying cuz the AP board is being heavily criticized now in states like florida for classes like AP african history and its wild so yeah, it really depends on the teacher and how they wanna diverse from the book, but just please always have critical lenses when being teached history, its only going to get worse. P.S. About the exam: dont worry much about learning every single detail and name of events, much of the exam is more gonna be like about why x happened and how it affected the future, just try to understand each thing as it relates to the broader history and not like a specific date and action, like "events leading up to the civil war" or "event surrounding the vietnam war", as long as you understand the position in the timeline of each broad event and can connect specific events to those things and give a simple description you'll do fine, also common sense can help fill in the gaps quite nicely, but watch out for the FRQs because there they are going to ask you like "describes the events that lead to women's suffrage" and you have to pull out things like the address of sentiments, or the role of republican mother by name and by people's name. The exam is scary but at least in my year was more easy than how it was in our heads so don't fear! i thought i was getting a 3 and i got a 5 so just stay calm, time is gonna go very easy with the exam so just be aware of your anxiety to calm it down and get a rhythm, good luck!

[@thewitness8321]

Unfortunately this effect isn't just happening in the US. In the UK History is mainly focused on medieval history (1066), and then skips to WW1 and 2, entirely skipping the British Empire except a lesson or two on Gandhi/ Indian independence

[@melissam597]

It should be illegal to teach religion in schools tbh

[@vivianjohnson3151]

I'm 16 (born late 2008) and my brother is 13 (born spring 2011). The disparity in our education and media literacy is crazy. He never learned to phonics, so he can't read English out loud or pronounce words/names he's never heard of. I was taught phonics and can phonetically read a handful of languages whose words I don't even know. He was never taught to think critically and tells me stories he thinks are true, but are just movie edits from youtube shorts. He wan't taught media literacy, so when he writes papers for his English class he cites sources from the 1990s. Even the way we treat our parents and teachers is completely different. I love him a lot but the 2.5 year gap separates us so much because of the declining education system.

[@gmdrandom6287]

What's wrong with 1990s sources? Depending on the topic or field, old sources can actually be pretty helpful and accurate.

[@nilmerg]

​@@gmdrandom6287 i guess it's contextual depending on the topic, right. there are a lot of cases where if you can find recent reputable sources regarding a subject, they're probably the way to go. i don't necessarily disagree with your point though.

[@lilyprettylamb]

When worse comes to worse, TALK is the best way to teach. Because these kids don't even know that they're learning. It's a tactic I use for stimulating and enriching my brother's mind, when he doesn't feel the focus to learn or study. We do what we can.

[@johnindigo5477]

It's so embarrassing how people my age couldn't read out loud in some classes. I went to a decent public school but the worst kids just made me sad. I'm doing the bare minimum by studying and going to community college. There's a growing gap of people either giving up on education completely before their 18, or already having to decide on a 5 figure career before they've even started college.

[@Volsilly]

Im 14 and they never taught me my states, or cursive, or how to spell properly without sounding things out :/ luckily i figured out how to spell, but when we have a vocabulary type quiz everyone in my class gets awful grades

[@Volsilly]

In my school district they banned “pinkalicious” because they said it “promoted feminism” 💀💀💀💀😭😭

[@Little_Nightmares127]

NAHHH 💀😭

[@sarahf4361]

brooo that was one of my favorite books as a kid 😭😭😭 and purplicious

[@Prod-MellowDrama]

Actual insanity, that’s like the least controversial book I’ve ever read.

[@char6081]

noo that was my favorite book as a kid 😢

[@ArionnaJones-q8q]

OH NO THEY DIDN’T!

[@V_4_Versace]

I think it’s even more insidious than people understand because cutting the Department of Education cuts all checks and balances and oversight, meaning that now these private schools and schools of choice can be even more selective than they already are about who they accept in their school. Many people think that it’s just about money and paying for the schools, but a big component of them is also the student bodies that they select and how they select them. For example, with no oversight, the schools could exclude students with disabilities (which they already do) but now without the DoE to say what a disability is they can include anything from speaking a second language at the home which would exclude many Asian, Latino, immigrant families or exclude children whose parents didn’t go to college… really there’s no limit to how bad and segregated this decision could make our country - I mean never forget that segregation itself was ended off the backs of schools with Brown v Board, so anyone who thinks this isn’t going to have horrible consequences is sadly mistaken.

[@KTrue52]

The DOE is only 45 years old. The United States used to be #1 in education BEFORE the DOE even existed. Our education has only gotten worse & worse since the DOE was founded. Please explain how schools are widely & actively excluding students with disabilities. As someone who is disabled & graduated in one of the worst ranked states for education, Oklahoma, at least the school I went to took accommodating disabled students seriously & did it mostly well. And what you said about how speaking a second language could be classified as a disability without oversight of the DOE has to be one of the most asinine statements I have heard. “Exclude children whose parents didn’t go to college” exactly how? As for the segregation statement, there are certain colleges/universities like the University of Washington in Seattle that actively have segregated dorms. They started black-only units THIS FALL. The worst part is that the university is denying that it’s segregation & they’re calling it “affinity housing”. I don’t see the DOE or any branch of the government taking action against them. So imo, I don’t think the DOE is as necessary as we may think it is.

[@V_4_Versace]

@ oh sigh, not only was I a special education teacher, but I’m now an education attorney, so believe me when I say I know more about this than most, it’s my literal job. So please do not make fallacy arguments like when the DoE was founded, there has always been boards, depts, and oversight in education in America, they just did not have a standalone dept until the 80s, so that’s just a bad argument. Additionally, America was never number one in primary k-12 education, America was (and is) racist and chose the “standards” for which they based the criteria on which not so coincidentally excluded factors that would bolster non-white countries UNTIL the DoE actually standardized learning and showed how poorly the US is truly doing at educating children. So again, not a good argument. I won’t disagree with you about OK being very poor in education, but I will say the ONLY reason they do anything for disabled students is because they are forced to by the IDEA (federal law fyi) and that’s a fact. So, without that oversight, they can go right back to excluding those students-please look into how disabled students were treated prior to the passage of these laws. Finally, you seem to have a clear misunderstanding of the word CHOICE, both the OP and I were discussing schools of choice where schools can choose who to admit and colleges and dorms are the same type of school of choice you now seem to be arguing against (please make up your mind, you can’t have it both ways) so if schools can choose who to admit, students can chose where to attend and room. There’s no law against schools of choice and in fact they were expanded under Trump, so now more schools than ever can split their schools however they want, which will only worsen with the dismantling of the DoE so thanks for giving me a great example of the very thing I was saying will happen 🤗

[@MK_ULTRA420]

​@@V_4_VersaceSounds like you just want to keep your job...

[@V_4_Versace]

@@MK_ULTRA420 lol I’m in no way connected to the DoE and I’m in a great state (the best perhaps for education 🫢) so while losing the DoE would in no way impact my work, it would have far reaching consequences for most other states and the most vulnerable populations of students so ugh I guess that feeling sympathy thing for others even when I’m not affected is a real shame, shrug…

[@fedethegreat88]

​@@MK_ULTRA420What a terrible counter lmao, couldn't have chosen anything worse

[@WinterWind]

Trade schools don't want to be and shouldn't be a dumping ground for badly behaved and badly educated kids either. We shouldn't have the kids who don't listen or follow directions handling dangerous equipment or neglecting safety protocols. You also need to be able to read and do math to do trades. It's not a catch all for the non-academic college bound kids

[@xdoo11ddf255]

Agreed, A lot of these kids think they can fall back on the trades and then get there and are surprised by how much math there is the same math they never bothered to learn in school. The people that are doing the best in the trades are the smart guys, they paid attention in school and did well. the other guys they just become the general labourers hoping they get hired for a low paying job.

[@MiloR-n5o]

As a person from generation Z, who is only a couple months away from going into college I personally think that the education system was skewed from the beginning. Not just in education itself, but with the adults that they put into the school system, I cannot tell you how many adults me and my friends have witnessed mistreating students and how long it took for those adults to be taken out of the school system. The most recent staff member/teacher that was taken out of the school was a male teacher who was accused of sexually harassing and inappropriately touching a female student. This happened midway through the year, and the teacher would pop in and out of school and it was only until I came into my senior year that I learned that he was finally fired from Montgomery County, but was still allowed to go into work in other schools. There was a female teacher in my middle school, who sexually harassed a student and is still working in that same middle school. My current school has an allegedly racist, and power-hungry principal who refused to turn on the AC last year, even though the of the third floor was 80° and up and they were multiple students and teachers mainly hijabis asking for her to turn on the AC because they were near fainting. She never did. There is so much stuff that is gone down in my school that either I or a friend is personally witnessed that has not been addressed or completely ignored. I could honestly create a podcast out of it.

[@ShapeShifterVee]

A teacher at my school strangled a student and was supposed to be suspended for 2 weeks, but the didn’t have enough teachers so they unsuspended her after one week 😭😭😭

[@JKthejokerpersonthing]

The gap between ninth and eight graders rn is fucking insane i see th grades who cant read books like they cannot read the hs class that's in right now may be the last year where most of the freshmen can read

[@MiloR-n5o]

@@ShapeShifterVee what-?!

[@MiloR-n5o]

@@JKthejokerpersonthing it’s so sad honestly. My nephew gonna be a freshman next year and even he had trouble reading. He’ll refuse to read books or captions on a movie.

[@TheMadMadman]

On the parenting side, parents try to raise their kids with electronics. They don't read to them at night. On the school side, administrators who are just in it for the money see the kids as numbers and statistics. They're more concerned about appearances and records than actual education.

[@lyssaflara]

As someone currently experiencing public high school in America, I think it’s horrific the way that a lot of kids are acting. It’s just a complete disregard for respect. I think a lot of it does come from the phones and a lack of punishments and boundaries because these kids just do not listen. The other day one of my teachers told a student to put his phone in the caddy and this student began acting like a toddler. He was whining and screaming and I was just like what has this generation become…. And I know that there’s even worse examples out there of kids misbehaving which just makes me feel all kinds of worried.

[@liagamer4265]

I dont think its a lack of punishments and boundaries tbh, I think its a lack of PROPER punishments and boundaries. Parents just try anything out on their kids but dont stop to self reflect and actually critically think through why the kid did what they did, what the goal of the punishment is, what message it sends to the child, is what they did even really that bad or do I just not like it because it doesnt fit my own personal standards/society's standards? etc.

[@funfettifroggy]

The lack of funding definitely plays a part. I worked as an elementary school reading mentor last year, and I firsthand watched how the education system failed these kids and we made a lot of progress to improve their missing reading skills, but this year the mentoring program disbanded due to lack of funding. Litterely 1 step forward 2 steps back

[@solarmoth4628]

People keep saying kids changed after COVID but never mention why. It’s not just online school, kids had family members die, watched their families struggle and had their lives disrupted by a very scary and for some traumatic event. Their primary form of socialization was online and online spaces are not child friendly. As a kid I had many experiences online that were inappropriate for my age and for Gen Alpha it’s tenfold.

[@musiclives4everXD]

Thank you for bringing this issue to light! Still hopeful for gen alpha but it’s so sad to see all the damage done by social media/electronics to brain rot ipad kids:/

[@tylerhackner9731]

It was already bad enough with us Gen z

[@deondrex18k]

Exactly

[@christinakcover]

Great work on this video, I think the perspectives you've shared here are spot on. I'm a Gen Z Special Education teacher and in college was an intern at the Department of Education. Like you said, public education definitely faces so many challenges and needs serious reform and reimagining, but literally surreal to see Linda McMahon named Secretary of Ed and I think that dismantling the Department is a terrible idea and would have major negative impacts like the ones you've shared. Overall I don't think any of us can fully anticipate the consequences of this, both seen and also "invisible". One of those things that might be subtle, then all at once a crisis. Appreciate you talking about this.

[@jae8940]

As a freshman in college who is studying special education, I am truly scared. Im honestly thinking about changing my major, but truthfully, education is where my heart is...

[@christinakcover]

@@jae8940 Thank you for studying special education and for wanting to go into the education field. Though things feel super dismal with the election and what could be ahead, want to encourage you to continue studying Special Education because you are dedicated to it and we need folks who will be advocates for students with disabilities and all systematically marginalized communities. Also, a lot of your experience will depend on where you teach. At the same time, if you’re interested and think you can, I’d also consider double majoring, minoring in another field, trying work or internship opportunities in other spaces, maybe researching education advocacy or policy roles - just would keep options open and I think you should never feel bad for that as the teaching profession is in crisis nationwide unfortunately and there are a lot of roles that can lift up teachers and students that aren’t directly in the classroom. No matter what I have no doubt that you’ll be successful. Best wishes for your studies!

[@TRANSlostLATI0N]

Getting rid of the department of education is going to cut special education programs.

[@funes4355]

that don't work, so why have a department that only wasted money

[@vaporeon1166]

Well dam there goes my IEP. i would be considered a special education person, but not on a severe level. I still need lots of help. And this IEP allows me to get this help basically :,>

[@DoraemonFan-ww3jm]

I'm very lucky that me and my brothers graduated from high school before things got more complicated.

[@poogissploogis]

Don't spread misinformation, you're just gonna scare people for no reason.

[@trishasantiago8976]

You know, sounds like something that was actively already happening around 2016, in our own back yard, PUERTO RICO. But no one wants to talk about that. The school system collapsed under Julia Keleher, 300+ schools closed in a small 100x35 KM island. They pocketed education money for their own corrupt greed, and charters were proposed as the “future of education “. It’s a lot more nuanced and detailed but, the hindrance in education has already happened.

[@Viperness]

The schools should feel ashamed of themselves for hiring administrators that would do this to their students and teachers.

[@karencruz6317]

i’m an elementary education major and work at a daycare as an infant teacher and i can’t help but feel completely helpless and tired. it’s so disheartening seeing how this country is failing our kids.

[@sleepysonny3]

I'm 17 and graduated early from high school. One of the biggest reasons I left was because I was surrounded by so many people - students and teachers alike - who seemingly had no goals, spread harmful information, and did not care about educating/being educated. About 70% - 80% of the students had that sort of braindead mental state: something that was awful to see with how wealthy the area is as a whole.

[@liagamer4265]

Tbh with the state of the world it makes sense to be hella burnt out and just giving off "whatever" energy 😭

[@alter6564]

It’s exhausting to have to learn again and again how to do basic English skills when I know how to do them, and not be able to work on my creative writing skills. I’m in 11th grade. This is my first year out of higher level English because it was stressful, and I’m so over having to learn how to CITE A SOURCE. IN 11TH GRADE. I fear if you do not know that you shouldn’t be in 11th grade

[@HYPERLLAMAS64]

I went to public school in a poor county, and I noticed educational disparities between my school and schools in the cities. Kids in rural areas will by far suffer the most.

[@Vomitperson]

I live in a fairly rural area and the education isn’t too bad

[@fxn09here]

70% that kids learn nowadays isn't from school

[@nromk]

They complain about lgbtq and racial issues so that they can pick away at your basic rights while you're angry with the other. As Alberto Frenadez planned on campaigning: it's The Right or The Rights. Unfortunately, Alberto Frenadez dropped out, and his replacement failed, and just like the USA, Argentina got a crazy egoistacal president. But next time we all go to vote, we should keep that warning: The Right vs The Rights.

[@cypressstick9396]

Younger generations are tech savvy, but to a point. They generally have no idea how to utilize that technology. But neither do their parents, so...

[@RamboQuellz]

Okay so as an older GenZ i would like to say the school system always sucked! Even though i had good grades and my gpa was where it needed to be i didn't get my diploma at the time all bc i didn't pass 1 TEST! Now i have my diploma. But at the same time none of the information i was taught at school has helped my adulthood life at any capacity!

[@veerow6035]

Sorry, but if you couldn't pass a required test, you should not have received your diploma. The purpose of school is to achieve competency in various subjects. Showing up is great, but you have to show that you are competent. Teachers feel pressure to pass kids who haven't retained any of their lessons, so we end up with an incompetent generation.

[@RamboQuellz]

​@@veerow6035 incompetent my SSA! I literally failed that test by 2 points the passing score was 245 I made 243 so miss me with that.

[@RamboQuellz]

​@@veerow6035 Incompetent my A.. the passing score for the test was 245 I made 243 so miss me with that

[@RamboQuellz]

​@@veerow6035incompetent? The passing score was a 245 i made 243 miss me with that!

[@ab_mochi]

​@@veerow6035 thing is standardized testing has been proven by multiple studies not to be efficient, effective, nor gauge a student's actual knowledge. that is why teachers have such a difficult time w/ curriculum vs testing standards.

[@JulianSteve]

Thank you for making this video, Rumi. I am concern with what’s going to happen with children’s education. As an adult who went to public school until college. I believe that public schools are important and should be protected. Not saying that public schools are the best, but they’re schools. We should aim to improve them, not take away. Or in this case, censor the material being taught (depending on the material)😅💯

[@xdoo11ddf255]

Great countries have great public school systems, in my mind the measure of a country is it hearlth care system and public school system. Failing countries have failing public school systems America is clearly in decline because you stopped caring about the little guy and how they going to do better.

[@CarolinaReapers11]

I graduated middle school last year (thank god) and my peers? Oh, the stories I could tell and the things I wish I could've said to their faces. They were SO FREAKISHLY DISRUPTIVE, and it was like they couldn't go TWO DAMN MINUTES without yelling brainrot. They were disrespectful, too! There was this science teacher that was very no-nonsense, and even though she was one of the best and most engaging teachers I've ever had, my peers were INSANELY disrespectful to her! The worst part? Those disruptive people were bullies, jocks, and preppy girls. They talked shit about me and probably though I was too dumb to realize they were doing so. Now, in my high school, the bullying doesn’t happen as much as it did, but my peers are still very disruptive. Usually, it doesn't bother me, but the loudest people are in my math class (I tend to struggle with math) and in my drama class (I love drama, but the immaturity of the majority of the class is just annoying. Even the TEACHER is fed up with their bullshit). And to think of what would happen to them should the Department of Education be rid of... I fear for the future of my peers.

[@claracatlady9844]

Watching America from an outside perspective is so freaking insane, it feels dystopian. It’s scary

[@kileyslife7541]

I'm 16. Trump becoming president is terrifying to me. Education is one of the reasons. But even without the thought of him, education surely ain't great... There are multiple people in my high school with no clue how to read a clock, count change, do basic math such as division, and can't even read a 100 page book without complaining about how difficult it is. I'm not exactly sure how 5 of my friends (and many other students I'm sure) moved onto junior year, considering they all failed sophomore... I am confused and concerned👍

[@raequincy8180]

The kids are definitely not alright, and anyone who thinks differently is just an idiot. If we're not educating our young folks, then who is going to run the country in the next 30-50 years (assuming the state of the world lets us get there)? Who will be a doctor or an engineer? Who will be performing surgery, building roads, driving taxis, etc? You need the basics to be able to do anything, and if we can't/won't teach our children to be able to do the basics, then everything will fall apart. We're already complaining about poor infrastructure; bad driving; and malpractice in medicine and law.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

I'd care but I'm still waiting for my Affirmative Action benefits.

[@AlanthasAdventures]

I’m 19 and Ive wanted to be a teacher since I was 5. This makes me so sad because I personally feel like my public school failed me, I’m not prepared for life or college, I’m struggling a lot, they didn’t help prepare me for life at all. I will say though, I have siblings up to 18years younger than me, and seeing how my 11 y/o sister was affected by Covid struggle to this day and how my 6 y/o sister who wasn’t in school yet during covid is thriving in school. Remember any student graduating before 2033 was apart of the Covid shut down and lost a year of school to “the internet” (personally I know I did the bare minimum during Covid and online school and I know lots of people feel similarly) we need to get things back on track, we need to pay attention to who runs our school districts (the lady that took over my areas school district last year was NEVER a teacher and was supposedly fired from her last job for fraud so please look into the people in charge) public school is a joke and the way that schools in the same district can have such differing resources and access to certain things. Again I’ll bring up the school district I just graduated from, we have 2 gun threats last year and never went into lockdown (that’s technically very illegal) and they’ve had over 8 gun threats this year, only 1 lockdown, yet instead of adding safety features or hiring police back into our school district they added phone pouches because reality is they don’t want students talking communicating to their parents. I know not all places are the same but I know we’re all in our own holes right now and it’s truly so sad

[@ADHDposterchild27]

As a late Gen Zier, my experience has been without a doubt different from the experience of Gen Alpha, but it does annoy me how people are acting as if it's solely the kids' fault, for starters, we are being given 3 times as much schoolwork than we are supposed to (look it up), making it difficult for us to retain the information. Also, many kids today are neurodivergent, and teachers aren't paid to care and are usually trained to teach neurotypical kids, or schools hire teachers who are awful people. Lastly, schools simply don't care about education, my elementary school never actually _taught_ me to read, they just expected me to know, until my 1st grade teacher saw me struggling and took the time to teach me. Also, just FYI, this is my cousin's account, they just wanted me to give my point of view on the topic.

[@sleepysonny3]

Absolutely agree. I'm also late Gen Z and this can't be closer to reality.

[@HYPERLLAMAS64]

Don't forget y'all, these babies who can't read are our future coworkers.

[@SorcererDragon]

It’s devastating to me that if I were a kid today; I never would have had the same opportunities to get so invested in arts and tech.

[@tifstar700]

I’m not sure I can watch the play by play of America turning facist. Thanks for keeping the truth out there and this is a wonderfully eloquent video

[@EyelessAugust]

The older generations might be laughing at us right now, but they don’t seem to realize how this *will* come back around and swing at them when they’re in retirement homes with illiterate caregivers that lack empathy… 😬

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

I work at a kids museum as a Play and Learn facilitator and I saw one of the kids laying on one of the benches near one of our exhibits on his iPad. And I questioned why his parents even bring him in the first place. The whole purpose of the museum I work at is that kids can learn as they play. And good lord the type of kids we get especially during field trips do NOT know how to behave at all.

[@milkuanu]

I’m an eighth grader and I love learning. I’m scared what education access I’ll have if everything starts taking effect once he becomes president. I can’t afford anything special, so I need public school. I don’t want my education quality to decline as it already isn’t too good at the school I go to due to my teachers just being weird. (Science teacher is literally a flat earther… 😖) I’ll be graduating high school once his presidency is over and I am hoping to still have the opportunity for college but I am going to have to rely on getting some sort of scholarship. I’m nervous since I’m sure what he does do will have an after effect even once he’s gone.

[@narayasuiryoku1397]

"I love the poorly educated" -Donald Trump

[@Autbeen]

Right after he said we are the smartest people 😂😂😂

[@supermarionicholas931]

Donald Dump

[@SheikhBouAoun]

He won around 40% of the college vote

[@lydia5651]

Being educated and being intelligent don't always go hand in hand.

[@justdery17]

now i see why he won

[@britneykisakye4366]

And school shootings, as a high schooler it is genuinly terrifying to think thay one day when i go to school, i wont go back home. And with everyhting you and people have mentioned in the comments, i feel like that itself brings another problem to stress/worry about it

[@dannyblanco8544]

I volunteer for schools and I can tell you from experience and talking with teachers that they are forced to pass students, as long students show up, they’re expected to be passed.

[@MuguOfficial]

2007 kids are literally doomed can’t believe they’re heading to college soon…

[@pickinstone]

@imurgency. Sorry for "at'ing you," but I was wondering how many of the commenters below actually took the time to watch your whole video before commenting. I have the same problem, and was pleasantly surprised when I practiced the self regulation to watch your video in its entirety before commenting on such a controversial topic. I'm a teacher of 12+ years in public education. I teach 5-12th grade, special education classes all the way up to gifted (highly capable) IB. Most of my experience has been in schools across urban centers across the country. I am also a parent. Do I have enough credibility to speak on issues of education? Maybe... I'm glad that you presented issues in education as multifaceted as they are in the classroom. I've grown tired of the cliched lament of "this ____________ generation that's younger than me just doesn't understand" and "these kids today are plain bad." No, and no. There are problems systemic in our education system, but the kids aren't the problem--and gutting the DOE isn't the solution. I think that the problem is as old as public education itself. We've grown accustom to situating our school buildings within the same historical imagination as prisons. Unfortunately, much of education is steeped in a "punish toward obedience" model that labels the students as criminals. Common Core Standards don't encourage such labeling of students--even the misunderstood CCSS for math that make waves across the internet. The issues are more deep rooted. About time that we see students as scholars and take the time to LISTEN to them. Unfortunately, all of that requires a progressive mindset and an investment in public education that goes beyond dollars and cents. We need to build a culture of critical thinking within education--not just for the students engaging in the system, but for the adults in power openly discussing the system! Going backwards will hurt the students the most. Thank you for taking the time to create a video that doesn't villainize students or the teachers that teach them.

[@X3nophiliac]

while your comment is very well thought out and compelling, i don't know if its realistic to say the solution is to have all teachers across the country become grassroot focused and have them ALL change their mindsets. 😥😥 A more clear and specific plan with clear student success = benefits is needed. I've seen recommendations for more apprenticeship- like classes. I could see that being a good avenue and i'd love to hear your thought on those types of policies! 😄

[@pickinstone]

@@X3nophiliac Sure. Christopher Emdin's conception of COGENS--cogenerative dialogues. FOR WHITE FOLKS WHO TEACH IN THE HOOD. Teachers get observed by administration 4 to 5 times in a school year. Flip the script, have a small group of your students observe your teaching every 2 weeks. My students observed 3 facets of my teaching--environment, workload, and participation (including monitoring my teacher talk). At the end of those 2 week cycles, that trio of students would debrief with me and share their observations and recommendations. What was working, what was not? I got better feedback from my students in the 4 years I implemented the COGENs technique than all the feedback I got from admin from my entire career. The students were so involved in my teaching, that I implemented co-teaching at the end. Student perspective is grossly under-valued in our traditional landscape of education. Next. Peter Liljedahl. BUILDING THINKING CLASSROOMS IN MATHEMATICS. Not just a great book for math teachers. Peter rethinks the "gradual release of responsibility" model that has been burned into contemporary pedagogy. In short, he challenges the "I do, we do, you do" model of teaching students. Instead, he develops techniques that allow students to explore authentic and CHALLENGING curriculum without relying on the teacher as the "beacon of hope." He also challenges how and where students do work. Last, Jennifer Fletcher. TEACHING ARGUMENTS (three book series). So much of the humanities should be rooted in the study of rhetoric. The issue is that we get stuck with Greek names: ethos, pathos, logos. Students should learn how to use rhetorical tools to understand and challenge the texts that they read in class: critical thinking. Fletcher discusses "reading with/ against the grain." Vocabulary is a rhetorical device. Grammar is a rhetorical device. The visual and performative medium--art and music--they are full of rhetorical device. Rhetoric is power, from politics to the water cooler. That's just a start. Every year, I re-examine my practice and role as an educator. Especially in these times of unknown, teachers need to reflect and re-examine. We are never too experienced to learn something new in the classroom. Last thought before I conclude. I've taught for more than 12 years--12 long years of a rollercoaster. What got me coming back was my students--point blank. These students know more and can teach US more, if we let them. I owe my career to my students. As a special education/ English dual cert teacher, I know that there are many issues in education. I taught from East Coast to West. However, throwing out the Department of Education is frightening because of everything that would be taken away for the students that I serve--that WE serve as educators country wide. To answer your question on governmental policy and the public eye... education is a convenient scapegoat. Teachers cannot wave magic wands and change the socio-economic landscape. There's deeper problems in our society, but people like a quick fix and a finger to point blame. We need teachers, but we also need people in power to effect change on the reality that our students graduate into--high school and beyond. So we do our best to create spaces in schools and classrooms where our students can grow into their voices and become adept at reading that landscape. Longwinded, maybe. There's a lot to unpack, but these issues are complex--so much more complex than blaming students, parents, or teachers.

[@Izenieei]

My teachers suck at teaching they speed through lessons and never help us and just put work in our faces.

[@Bobbiejoinscore]

Imagine some random conservative watches this video and realizes they voted for the wrong person😭

[@andrewmohar3613]

Hi. I think this was thoughtful, but you're also missing something on top of your insights. Look at states like New Hampshire. NH spends very little on education. Pennies on the dollar compared to some states like New York or Illinois. Yet, NH is one of the highest performing states in terms of education. Sure, NH is one of the wealthier states, but those resources are not DIRECTLY being implemented in the classrooms. What's more important than directly funding the schools, as important as that is, is the social connectivity and capital within communities, and support for children OUTSIDE OF THE HOME. I went to a school that was very racially and economically disparate. There were very wealthy students and very poor students but not much in between. The wealthier students performed very well and regularly got into schools like Northwestern, Tufts, Brown and Michigan. I can't say the same thing about the less financially opportune students. But at the end of the day, we all went to the same school, had the same teachers, and lived in the same city. So what happened? It's not like every single one of these wealthy students were buying ACT prep and tutors -- most of them weren't. But there was a culture around education in the household. Parents were involved in the education and valued it and made it clear why it was important, etc. This is a cultural issue fundamentally.

[@TotallyxKatiee]

My 8th grade students last year were performing at a 4th grade level for the most part. A few kids were at or above grade level, but the majority were at a 4th grade level. I was a student teacher and expressed my concerns about just passing these kids on and the teacher said that’s just what we do now. I did try to work one on one with some kids, but that would have been impossible if I was the only teacher in the room. Who knows what is causing this.

[@frama1122]

I’ve worked in a secondary school & 6th form (ages 11-19) in the uk for 2 years now and it’s a combination of lack of funding, a sharp increase in SEN needs, unsupportive/entitled parents and just that society has changed - kids under 18 are the first gen iPad kids grown up and you can see the impact on their cognition. Traditional education is not working to teach these kids and school are more worried about grades rather than if these kids are leaving with the skills and habits they need for adult life

[@lexyred6289]

I knew the stats before I got into education as an afterschool administrator. Still, it's another thing actually working with students and realizing that they are in 3rd grade and can't read the word "The". The education system and the kids have not been alright for years. Even though it's no longer active the "no child left behind" culture is very much alive and well in the education system. They keep pushing students to the next grade level even though they know they aren't ready. I don't know if the proposed changes w the incoming president will make things better but its very clear for anyone who's worked in education that something has to give.

[@qorymij37]

It doesn't help that us in OK have aneducation system that is clearly not OK. Our DOE president is Ryan Walters. He was the one who tried to enforce Bible lessons, the Ten Commandments, and his personal Donald Trump video. He defended the killers of Nex, a transgender student who was killed after being bulliedmin an Oklahoma school. Lastly, he changed how the state test scores showed to make it look like students did better, yet never told parents.

[@poliesther777]

I have a friend who is a teacher for children 14 y/o onward, and they all make big, huge, grammatical mistakes for their ages

[@Volsilly]

I see that in my class 😭😭💀

[@ToxcVoid]

Our education system is bad in general it needs a rework. The department of education in the country is sort of bloated. I dont think it should be entirely removed but be downsized. The department of education only makes policys and collects data of the students. And has about 200 million allocated to it. What they should do as I states before is downsize it and work on giving it to raise teachers salaries and the resources that they need. And we should in general remove no child left behind because people who didnt pass 3rd grade should not be able to go to 6th grade.

[@NobodyImporttant]

I’ve graduated high school almost a decade ago, and I’ve been in a couple of bad classes. I took regular English 12 and was bored and frustrated out of my mind because there were constant interruptions from my classmates. On top of that, they would ask the same questions within a few minutes, questions they would know the answer to if they paid attention to the lesson or the answer provided to a person who already asked. Laughably easy assignments was also a thing. I wasn’t gifted either, the bar was just so low. I read some stories in the comment section of this video and related videos… and I shudder because it’s worse than when I was in school. How do you fight an anti intellectual culture? How do you counter crowds of people who have no trust in education or educated people? How do you retaliate against the regime of upcoming politicians who seek to snatch away the opportunity of knowledge and growth from the lower middle or lower classes or disabled children, or any other person who has no easy or guaranteed access to transparent and decent schooling?

[@etoileshine1011]

Take a look at the adults and the dude they voted for. Gen alpha didn't stand a chance in my opinion.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

Kamala spent 1 billion dollars just to lose lmao

[@neonwolf9978]

From lots of videos i have witnessed about Trump and American, the plans remind me extremely of north korea and a certain era of germany.... I am just saying

[@MK_ULTRA420]

Yeah, just like in 2016.

[@rean.rean4ever817]

I am currently teaching the youngest of gen Alpha (1-3 year olds) and I push for them to be as prepared as I can make them for preschool. However it isn’t the knowledge that’s the problem as most of my 2 year olds know how to count to 10, their shapes, colors, and some of their ABC’s, it’s their behaviors with others and themselves that’s the issue. I’m not going to get into it but it stems from not being told no enough at home, being an iPad kid, and lack of parental engagement.

[@AnimeEdits09]

Even after covid i am still at online classes due to the fact that the behavioral issues and my own personal issues caused me to no longer be able to attend in-person school, I have always loved learning so i would do extra school work and stuff during covid to the point where i was at grade level but in comparison to the other kids around me i seemed to be much higher than the others to the point where it was concerning especially because i was at the average grade level, none of them and i mean none of them had a care for school at all and every single day i would walk in and see stuff being thrown, kids screaming,fighting,and a stressed out teacher. It was honestly so hard to attend school and actually learn anything. Also the part about kids being on phones/ipads and not actually interacting with others, i honestly find it very concerning and it always made me sad to walk into an event or something that people worked hard to set up and just see a bunch of people looking at their phones and not actually interacting with eachother. A few months ago I was on a walk with my younger Cousin it was a nice day and i was super happy to see her, but no matter how much i tried to talk and interact with her, she would just ignore me and continue to scroll on youtube shorts, it was honestly sad because I hadn't seen her for a long while and i was so happy to see her again after months of not talking. And i will admit i do tend to be on my phone alot but most of the times its just for reading or talking to my friends or watching true crime videos, other than that i dont use my phone every second of every day and nither do my parents so its always been sad to me to see parents ignoring their kids and just being on their phones. Anyways sorry for rambling and thank you to anyone who read this to the end and have a wonderful day 😁

[@codyseelye8352]

Have anyone read the Unwind series? I am scared if Trump does close Education. Kids might riot and go crazy like in the Unwind Dystopian series. No schools and too young to work. Kids will start rioting out of boredom and no hope for them. I am scared. 😢

[@valentinaraffaelli7291]

America is basically turning into Fahrenheit 451 (book)

[@codyseelye8352]

@ oh no

[@T3chIdiot]

I'm a sophomore in high school. I'm basically watching everything that's coming after me start to collapse while I start to near the end of high school. Its really sad too, that people just don't care about education as much as we should.

[@ShapeShifterVee]

A teacher at my school strangled a student and was supposed to be suspended for 2 weeks, but the didn’t have enough teachers so they unsuspended her after one week 😭😭😭

[@seph5911]

Why is everyone blaming the kids for acting like they do?? It's clear it is indeed the faults of the system, the parents, and the adults who hold power over them (their teachers included!)

[@CrazyLittleAdventures]

My district has a thing where there are no Middle schools, Middle School just get looped in with Elementary School. When I was in 6th-8th grade the principal we had at the school was AMAZING, She was nice, she was one of those principals that could strike fear in students while also being a big softy that is always willing to help. The teachers loved her, the students loved her. As soon as my 8th grade year ended she decided to go to the district (her goal was to become the head of it one day). As soon as I get to high school and my sister stared 6th grade, it was already evident that nobody was going to like the new principal. (Note I don’t know much about the new principal as I got this info entirely from my sister) He is someone who strikes fear in students but that’s it, he doesn’t care about the staff, he doesn’t care about the students, the teachers’ positivity has gone down exponentially. He is also extremely rude towards students, screaming and nitpicking them for every wrong step they take. Talk in class once? You get yelled at for 12 minutes. You talk back to the teacher? Oh you’re going to be put on some kind of hit list. Point is, it’s not just the kids or the parents, it’s just the education system as a whole and that the wrong people keep getting put into places where they either A: don’t know what to do or B: don’t care and only work for the salary or because it was the only thing available.

[@JJNubbins]

“The department of education is failing our children so it’s bad they wanna get rid of the department of education” lol…

[@Shiann444]

The less educated is easier to control… that’s it that’s all.

[@skol1004]

I am genuinely scared for my future. I still have five more years until I'm done with high school. I've always been the "smart" kid. I just hope I graduate with a proper education.

[@Lilgoat.1]

You won't. Get your GED and learn what you missed online.

[@juliaboskamp9666]

I've taken care of children a while back and we as a society have failed those babies. We should have never gave them those iPhone I-pads and whatever parents give them to not talk to their children. I had kids with no creativity, fantasy or manners. Everytime we went outside to play they wanted to go back inside as soon as possible (like back when i was a school child everyone's favoriete time was the breaks outside). If you wanted to teach them something they would just be zombies who had a hard time learning, if it was time for arts and crafts stuff went flying everywere (i know children can be messy, but when i was young school suply never got so ruined that it needid to be replaced, because it was so ruined). I even heard the 5 year old said words i don't even dare to say, if my mother ever heard me say that stuff she would discipline me her adult daughter right then and there (like i don't know how teacher keep this up, i worked with children for 2.5 years and was like nope not doing this). Like there was a time the speciale needs kids were the ones teacher thought were the nightmare to teach, now it oooh thank god it are the speciale need kid this will be a easy day. The whole way we have raise children the last 1.5 decade needs to change, or else those children will hit a real hard adult wall when they are the age society expects them to work.

[@alexandru5369]

It's mostly the schools but also the parents. Also the Dept. of Education has been awful for decades it never should've been created in the 1st place. The lock down nonsense made things 10X worse

[@margaret3943]

Genuinely we are in the end of times. It’s been here

[@WarpedKarma6471]

This is what the last 6 generations have said. Spanish flu, great depression, ww1&2, nuclear weapons, cold war, the opioid crisis, sept 11 attacks, 2008 market crash, covid. There's going to be disasters we just can't let it become "the end of the world"

[@mweheheheheheh]

@@WarpedKarma6471nothing ever happens

[@supermarionicholas931]

Yes

[@supermarionicholas931]

12/21/2012 was the start of this revolation 12 sign was on 12/21/2012. End of the Myan calender. Revolation 12 warning sign 12/21/2012.

[@supermarionicholas931]

@@WarpedKarma6471 We entered the end times on 12/21/2012.

[@pillblug]

I'm in 7th grade, and last week some kid PURPOSFULLY flung a rubber band into a teacher's eye, along with other things (cough two people having sex in the bathroom in *5th. grade* cough) And I can say, yeah, we're cooked.

[@NazeerRasberry]

Sorry but what are those kid learning also is your school 1th to 5th are something else

[@pillblug]

@ my school is separated pretty weirdly, its 1-4th, then 5-6th, 7-8th, then high school.

[@HatPuppet]

WHAT. 5th graders having sex?? OH HECK NAH 😭

[@NazeerRasberry]

@@pillblug ok

[@pillblug]

@@HatPuppet i know right 😭 worst part about it is that the school didn't do shit because they were being bullied and we were *apparently* making up lies to get them in trouble (we were in fact not) and then the school just gave us a presentation about bullying.

[@CCatCreature]

As a 9th grader that has classmates like this, I think the bot knowing how to read and behave is kinda the parent’s fault. They didn’t teach their kids to read. They didn’t teach their kids to behave even the slightest. They bought their kids iPads and phones and 4 years old. It’s not the schools full job to raise and discipline your kids. If you can’t teach your kids not to shout something so mind-numbing stupid in the middle of class, you’re failing as a parent.

[@Justahuman-k1t]

I'm an eighth grader, the only one in my class who can write in cursive, do math without a calculator, and write essays without AI. These are my special interests, as I'm autistic. I often help high schoolers with math, and it’s frustrating because it's not their fault. they struggle because the teachers don't care if students understand, only if they pass tests.

[@ronlugbill1400]

I am a retired teacher and lawyer. The kids are reading way behind grade level because they don’t read in school and they aren’t read to in school or out of school. They can basically sound out words but they have zero reading comprehension, low vocabulary, and low background knowledge. Reading is not part of the curriculum and Admin doesn’t want to see kids reading silently or having the teacher read aloud to them. Admin wants small group work where the kids do projects. So the kids just sit and chat while one of the kids does the project. Tests are not favored. Alternative assessments are in style. Kids are disrespectful. Some kids are only there to disrupt the class so no learning can take place. Kids bully teachers and try to get teachers in trouble by texting their parents and the parents call the principal. It is all a huge headache for teachers and Admin is unsupportive of teachers. So teachers quit and you have a lot of subs and little learning.

[@k.p.2706]

I've been homeschooling my GenAlpha child for nearly 5 years and now he is enrolled in community college -- on track to get his first college degree (associate's) at the age of 13. The GenAlpha homeschooled kids in our network are thriving mentally, emotionally and academically. I knew I made the right choice to keep him out of the chaos. It's been work, but he's absolutely worth it.

[@sosilly.phoenix]

What program is he in? I didn’t know you could do that

[@ShapeShifterVee]

My sister is in middle school, and they’re incredibly stupid, most struggling with things as simple as what’s a noun and what’s a verb or how to multiply by fractions

[@sosilly.phoenix]

How about you not call them stupid?

[@Lilgoat.1]

Well, they definitely aren't smart.... The things op listed are things you learn in elementary school. No child left behind has failed these kids and our society.

[@caseylevy687]

How about we get rid of the tablets and personal laptops and go back to using textbooks

[@UnKynneyValley]

That’s basically what the government is doing and will do if Trump got into office. The issues that both Gen Zalpha (between Gen Z and Gen Alpha) and Gen Alpha kids are highly rely on technology to get information which the schools, depending on where you live, don’t have those type of resources to do those type of stuff. Hell, most school districts don’t even teach media literacy because school districts don’t have enough money to find resources and hire more teachers to teach that subjects. Plus, books are also expensive, which school districts where they have funding issues will not afford.

[@CeliaMartinez-m5b]

At my school we use both. We have awesome texts for our literacy program, but we use computers to assess and to use individualized learning programs. I think we have a good balance of books/screen time. Where the books are missing are at home. Even if they are at home, parent assume kids know how to read on their own and they don’t read with them. When I conference with parents of third graders they don’t know how to read with their kids! They don’t know what books are at their kid’s reading level or how to choose independent vs. guided reading books. It should be required that parents adhere to the same standards as teachers for teaching their child to read.

[@Volsilly]

I also use both at my school, my teachers give us 1-3 15 minute assignments on school ipads during class, and then the rest of the time we either use out textbooks, or do a worksheet

[@emiliereal1520]

I think learning from the textbook and Chromebook are the same thing. Kids need hands on material, period. The Chromebooks just make it easier because you don’t have to carry as much around, and organizing is easier.

[@biblesforbreakfast]

Billionaires want it to go to the states because they pay more federal income tax than state tax. It's not about an inkling of care for kids or US citizens.

[@aliwaltrip583]

As a public teacher who did a lot of research in her undergraduate about school choice, I had some disagreements with this video but I appreciate you addressing this whole topic of education today. My one second spiel about school choice: public schools score better and pay their teacher more in areas that employ school choice because it creates market competition. Public schools need to convince families they are serving a good product for families to attend. It’s also really really good for student of low economic class as their education and scores skyrocket when provided the opportunity to attend private school. Leaving high quality private education only to the rich just perpetuates inequality! Just a couple of thoughts. :)

[@WillyLilly777]

Im literally in 8th grade and am a college level reader and have an a plus in every class... Although my teacher told me last year that there would be 200 hundred 5th grades coming into my school they can't read.