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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Teachers vent about Gen Alpha being incapable of reading or following instructions.  They collapse at the site of any challenge where they have to use their  brain. One teacher said it took the entire class FIVE full periods to write 5 full paragraphs on an article they analyzed together.

We are absolutely doomed to an Idiocracy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1u5ku71/teachers_of_reddit_is_the_gen_alpha_cant_read/[/quote]

Almost certainly related to excessive phone use and not being forced to learn using pencil and paper from an early age. Our daughter is 6, and while she does struggle to focus sometimes, she doesn’t have tablet or iPhone access, goes to a tech-free school, and is multiple grades ahead in math. It can be done—just requires the right conditions. [/quote]

These kids are mostly in elementary school and three years of middle school currently.  Most don’t have phones until middle school. Our schools never had iPads, they have Chromebooks in middle school.  I’ll guess that every school has pencils and paper and supplement with iPads.

They know how to write.  I had my daughter do the workbooks on tracing numbers and letters and other simple ones.  Being left handed is not always comfortable because of spirals in the middle of notebooks and smudgy pens. I showed her that she needed to start from the last page so the metal spiral wasn’t in the way.  Helpful stuff for her personally. [/quote]

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