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[quote=Anonymous]The steady decline in student skills, capabilities, and interest since 2012 arrival of the smart phone.

I taught middle school for 8 years and this is my 9th year in High School. I periodically will go back to successful activities or projects I did with 6th graders at a low performing middle school 15 years ago and realize that my current 11th grade Honors level students wouldn’t be able to do those projects at all. They have no creativity, limited vocabulary, think they have to Google everything, yet can’t formulate decent search phrases to get real information, can’t recognize the low quality of the information they do find, have no critical thinking skills, and yet are sure they are brilliant and expect an A for everything. It’s completely disheartening and dismaying.

Connecting with kids, seeing lightbulb moments, knowing you’ve made a difference in the outcomes for a student is what makes putting up with long hours and ridiculous demands worth it. Without that … many of us are counting the days to retirement.[/quote]

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