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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t speak for all high school teachers, but I feel that some staff have given up.  They are caring people who are just overwhelmed by the issues in the classroom and the individual problems of the students.  In a lot of classrooms it seems like there are kids who care and try, often college and career bound.  Then you have kids who just seem to hate learning and do the bare minimum while playing on their phones or at worst disrupting other students for their own enjoyment.  There is kind a of a constant pull for the attention of the kids in the middle with the teacher trying their best to push everyone toward success.  It’s too hard.  I see some teachers more or less abandoning direct instruction and group work.  The kids are just on their phones.  It’s just independent work in chromebooks instead. [/quote]

It’s hard because I see that increasing number of students feel like they don’t need even basic literacy and math skills, let alone geography, literature, and chemistry for the lives they will lead as adults. They anticipate working multiple part-time, low skill, low pay retail, fast food, or manual labor jobs. They don’t think reading or writing well could address any financial, medical, or legal issues they might face because the decks are stacked against them. And they don’t think they’ll need to help their future kids with school because their kids will be stuck in the same short, hard lifestyle as well. They only have screens, sex, and drugs to alleviate their suffering.

How do you get them to buy in when they see Millennials and older Gen Z struggling despite having played by the rules. The biggest derailer of these kids’ dreams is a 22 y.o. college grad who returns to their community and works the same crappy entry level job they could have had at 18 with a GED. No improvement in their condition or prospects, but now they have $50k in student loans. [/quote]

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