Reply to Are public schools everywhere in the US getting bad post-pandemic?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Are public schools everywhere in the US getting bad post-pandemic?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious as well.  My DD goes to a typical affluent “high-performing” suburban high school…but many kids sleep during class, cheat, bald face lie to teachers…i do feel sorry for our teachers…they have no tools to handle the misbehavior.  I live in a big democratic state (and grateful for it, btw), but I do wonder if other states have this much misbehavior and rudeness among students?[/quote]

Yes. It's all over every single teacher forum, message board, and sub-Reddit. I think the pandemic had a lot to do with it but teachers were sounding alarms before that. Pressure to reduce discipline referrals, the widespread use of smart phones, and the move away from separate classrooms and schools for kids who chronically misbehave were already happening before Covid.[/quote]
This.

The pandemic just accelerated trends that were already happening. As a society, we are losing the ability to connect with other people due to smartphones, changing media consumption (no common references across everyone), polarization, isolation, etc. Then for the kids, they had disruption to socialization for a couple years, combined with permissive/non-existent parenting. Send them back to school and a significant number are 1-2 years less mature than peers, phone addicted, unable to work with peers, and generally uninterested in the idea of learning anything if it takes any effort on their part. Public education wasn’t designed for the social challenges we have right now with kids. So now teachers are being asked to solve problems that they weren’t trained for and were never part of the job, which adds stress and is part of the resignation trend. Fewer teachers = more stress = more resignations.

There may be schools or regions less affected than others, but all schools are affected to some extent. It’s going to take years before society as a whole realizes that something needs to drastically change, but by then I think the system will have collapsed.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics