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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I'm a parent trying to help with the sub shortage.  I actually have an 8th grader at the school and thought I had a general sense of what was going on there.  Nope!  I realize these are kids and it's not their fault.  My observation is that some of these kids did were not willing to do any work or put in any effort.  I'm not going to sugar coat what I observed.  [/quote]

My kid is at a highly rated high school, and he tells me horror stories about the way the kids treat the teachers in his AP classes! Kids are awful, and the teachers get entirely burned out and cynical in just a few years. One of his teachers is completely checked out, and he teaches an AP class! It's appalling, and the pandemic made it worse. I don't have an answer, and yes, it's very, very sad. The kids in my child's track aren't headed to dead-end jobs, but they aren't aiming high either. The education system in our country is a terrible mess, all teaching to the test, memorization and regurgitate, no wonder kids get disillusioned quickly and become cynical and act out at the teachers. The pandemic made it much, much worse. We need a complete reset on education in this country, especially now that the insane right has emerged, feeding on their distorted information sources, living in an alternate universe where DT is the displaced POTUS. Sad, indeed. [/quote]

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