Gen Alpha Can't Read And It's Worse Than You Think 

Farther is physical… further is figurative

Had a student in special education math getting 100% on all her class work and tests. There was a step up class that would be more challenging and another special teacher didn’t want her in the class because if she failed it would devastate her. We argued that her goal is to quit school in less than 18 months, she already felt like a failure. She switched classes on a trial basis. We explained that it’s common for a student to get C’s first quarter and then B’s second quarter to not give up. She ended the first semester with a 88/B+ and the second quarter with an A. By the end of the school year, she no longer planned to quit and ended up graduating HS. My point is it’s important to address the problem and then encourage them to move on. Students are not stupid, they know if they are failing or unable to keep up with their classmates. They will quit as soon as they are allowed in most cases to find something they can succeed with or worse turn to drugs or alcohol.

No child left behind has screwed all this up!! My kid was making A's and B's and struggled to read in 2nd grade!

Yep. It’s normally the admins fault because they are too afraid to hold students back (and or force teachers to pass failing students), and it sucks to see how this all gets played out

Back in my day, it's either that or pass the grade. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Yes! I got to do a reading challenge/program with the reward of Magic Mountain tickets. That really fueled my unstoppable reading in middle school

I used to get little prizes at the library

I did it for a free book that I got to KEEP even if I read it in one day lol 😂 pretty sure I read every single rainbow fairy book as a kid

@@chaotic-goodartistry3903 I was one of if not the fastest reader in my class in my elementary school years. I could read multiple full 3rd-5th grade chapter books in a week, sometimes finishing one in a matter of hours depending on how long or short the book was. I averaged around 20 or more books a month. I loved the school class reading competitions because I got to do what I loved and I enjoyed the thrill of being challenged to beat my reading records. My teachers used my score sheets to inspire my classmates to read more so I wasn’t the only one do the heavy lifting. We WON most of those competitions and I still read in most of my free time to this day purely because I love fiction. Contests like these incentivize casual or non-readers and are a joy for reading enthusiasts. Bring them back.

Or a pool party

what did you want them to read?

@jows1374 low key, ANYTHING The reading is less important then the quality time with the parent We had some activity books they could use that worked on things like communication skills and self esteem though.

@@ddd09ish1 It's wild that it took a martial arts instructor to get them to do this, instead of the child's teacher. But they knew that you were under no obligation to teach their child martial arts, while the school had to take their child, so they were more motivated by you.

@@MarieAnne. gosh you are giving me flashbacks to a year or two ago. thats exactly what we would tell the parents they dont like school because they HAVE to be there. They listen to us because they WANT our respect and praise. ugh. ow. my heart.

We had similar martial arts requirements book reports for each belt past orange otherwise you couldn't grade.

❤❤❤❤❤❤ so ture

As my mother often said, people who don't read live one life, but people who read live many lives.

That is so important that you were able to give that support. I was taught to read by my great grandfather. My parents read to me, sure, but grandpa had more time to do it, and we'd make a game out of him. He'd pretend to fall asleep in his rocking chair and and I would run with a book and "wake him up" to read. I thought it was super funny. Thanks to him I was reading fluently by 6 years old. These days, with everyone so busy, supportive grandparents are worth their weight in gold.

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The queuing method of reading doesn't teach phonics and decoding it's context based. That's what they've been teaching. And kids cant read words and just guess what the word is. It's gnarly how much harm it's done to reading levels.

Same! I’m 14 and have a 6 year old sister. They were more fussy over me than her.

22 with an 11 year old sister. By the time I was her age I had been taught to do my own laundry, cook my own meals and do the dishes. I was even made into the defacto babysitter. My sister can do none of those things, I ask my parents why she can't when I could at her age and they write it off to her adhd despite the fact I was basically made to act as a third adult in the house at 11 while having not yet diagnosed autism

@@theoddbox same!

@@theoddbox parents get lazier with each subsequent child, I’m 27, have 24 and 21 year old brothers and even though we’re older I saw it with them too, nowhere near as strict as they ever were with me and I was also given the role of taking care of them. Birth order psychology is a real thing I’m convinced of that and I don’t know why parents get lazier I can only imagine how much worse it is now with Gen Alpha siblings.

My mom refuses to make my brother do anything, meanwhile I was thrown straight into independence very early on. I feel bad for the kid.

That's actually so sad, indeed. Both my parents would take turns reading to me and my brother. And as we grew older they would encourage us to read alongside them more and more, until we took over the reading and started reading by ourselves before bed. I stopped reading at some point as a kid and started thinking it was for nerds, only because that's what all the other kids said about reading. Then my older sister got me into a book series after showing me a movie, and i was obsessed with reading again after that. As a 12yo i'd show up to school with 700+ page books for reading projects, while everyone else went for the barely 10 page Dora-the-explorer level books. Through my ups and downs in life like any other person, i can firmly say one of my proudest moments in life were as a child in school having my novel writing tests always be the one read to the rest of the class for being both articulate and creative. For a long time i wanted to be an author. (Didn't go that rout cause i fell in love with another art form more) But that just shows how inspired and dedicated i was at a young age from the simple fact that my parents sat down with me to read.

Wait! Parents teach kids??? My parents couldn't even help me with my school, i don't blame them though cause they are illiterate. But I kept watching RU-vid videos with captions on and learned to read and write by myself. I was so good to the point that I knew most words even before my teachers taught me. My classmates were always asking the meaning of the simplest words.

I’m 22 and my mom read to me when I was growing up.

Oh that breaks my heart, too. I was read to, but it quickly became me reading to my parents, because they cared and they let me pick books that piqued my own interests (granted, when your kid's into dinosaurs, ancient history/mythology, and space, that's not hard) rather than letting me get toys from the local bookfairs or forcing me to read pre-vetted books.

My grandma reads to me, my mom does too. Except my brother refuses to let them, he doesn’t care about punishment at all.

So Weirdly this was both exactly like, and antithetical to my childhood. I was reading college books and given all kinds of science magazines, and I was encouraged as early as 6th grade to read books on the AP list But reading a book about space travelers, or any graphic novel, or even stuff like Beowulf for leisure, was discouraged because it's "brain candy" and "you can't make a career out of it"

@@PrincessNinja007 Interestingly enough, if one plans on becoming a writer, especially a writer of fiction, reading fiction is a necessity. Classical literature should also be read for wanna-be writers.

I read in a book last night about a similar situation in the UK a few years back, pre internet, when a little boy was asked to bring a book from home, and the only book in the home was a mail order style catalogue. When the story was reported with horror, the catalogue company gifted the family with lots of books. So it's not a new problem, but gets repeated through generations if not dealt with.

I hear ya bud/.

Damn I’m gen alpha (2015) and I can read at a 9th grade level. That iPad time was superfluous, gen alpha.

Yes!!! The amount of small kids I see out and about (with parents) when I'm off work at 9 p.m. is astounding!

It's kind of insane talking to younger kids and hearing that they're in 7 or 8 extracurriculars, often as late as 9PM

@@janetwilliams3497 This! And another thing very damaging for a still developing brain is getting COVID, a disease proven to cause brain damage. Feels weird to ignore these physical possible causes whrn discussing this.

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I'm pretty sure blaming a President from decades ago who has had nothing to do with forming policy of the DOE over the last 15 years, is not really a logical approach to this. No Child Left Behind was useless, but not destructive.

Exactly. Now they put the blame on the parents. And the children from the left behind generation are not good parents sadly.

It’s what happens when you put ADMINISTRATORS in charge of education and MICROMANAGE the teachers.

@@CoryPchajek worse than that, they indoctrinate the teachers into their cult-like ideology.

What's interesting is NCLB nearly solved this problem. It funded Reading Rescue which took kids in early childhood through a comprehensive scope and sequence of foundational reading skills. However, curriculum developers and publishers, and their apologist professors were all benefiting from selling balanced literacy curricula that didn't include foundational skills work nor any comprehensive and systematic scope and sequence to districts across the country. They lobbied against Reading Rescue and it was scrapped. Struggling readers, particularly those with dyslexia, lost the most. The science of reading movement has been trying to correct this over the last few years, but we're still seeing the same special interests blocking dyslexia screening mandates and lobbying against the funding and implementation of science of reading-aligned curricula and teacher training.

I’m sorry your coworker is pestering you about reading, it sounds like he could definitely use a high dose of intellectualism. I’m curious what you mean by public reading to be performative. I deleted all personal social media apps over a year ago so I missed this whole convo on tiktok or another. I think that even if someone is “performatively” reading in public, wouldn’t it still have a possibility of influencing others to read more? And through the act of “performative” reading, maybe the person could actually come to love books? I guess I’m not sure what the performative aspect is, like “I’m better than you because I’m reading a book and you’re all on your phones” type thing?

I don’t think reading in public is performative at all. It’s just reading. I push back at the term because it seems like people doing bad things aren’t performative they are just out there living their lives. But if you do something that’s good, decent, moral or uplifting you’re accused of being performative?

It's certainly performative if I'm doing it because I'm kidding myself if my socially anxious ass can focus on more than a sentence in public with all the noise and distractions 😂

It helps to read on a kindle app or something so people don't pester you :)

Probably an overcorrection from when millennials were kids tbh. I could write some really in depth analysis of the manga I read, but one of my core memories is being SCREAMED at in the library because this "ani maya" stuff isn't really reading and I should go get myself something that will ACTUALLY be useful. But not Shakespeare because that might make me want to be a lit major, I need to read something scientific

Empathy comes from the arts and reading great books which help us understand ourselves and others.

Yeah ii’l say some stupid shit like “krill issue” if it’s something minor but I cannot imagine saying that in response to something actually serious

@@kathleenscarborough5481 It also doesn't help when modern society says: "I can't understand what that person is feeling because "they don't look like me". Growing up in the 80's, the most impactful and emotional event is when a 50' tall robot dies. I'm not 50 feet tall and I'm not a robot, but my father died when I was very young so I can understand the grief of the characters around him.

Nah that's all over the place. I'm gen Y (1989) and I can remember being younger the amount of times i've been told "No one cares" "It's your problem", whenever i've tried to express something to someone, has possibly mentally scarred me to the point that I don't even talk about my feelings, emotions, or even physical pains. Though now, gen alpha has the term 'trauma dumping' which i find a bit nasty. Like if someone is having a hard time, they came to you because they trust you and feel they can get comfort from you, but all you're gonna do is say they are trauma dumping. Why are you even their friend if you want to feel that way?

@@spacedinosaur8733 OMG yes or even the opposite "You're not black, a woman, lgbt, etc*. So you have no input on xyz topic" is the most annoying thing ever. Like why do you have to be part of a certain group to understand harassment or something negative. I'm sure nearly everyone has been a target of some sort of harassment in life. *These are the most common ones i hear

My mother in her 50s told me about how when her friends had kids and would bring them to hang out with the kids while they chatted used to get PISSED OFF at how my mum would pause the adult conversation to explain stuff to the kids if we came over asking questions. And I don't mean she'd drop everything to cater to the kids, I mean my mum would say "hold on" to her friend, then turn to whichever kid it was and go "we're talking right now, please wait a few minutes and then I'll answer you", then turn back to the friend, finish the thread of whatever they were talking about, and then thank the child for waiting, and answer them. Her friend used to get SERIOUSLY MAD at my mum for being polite with us kids - and my mum was bewildered bc she was just treating us like people. (Apparently that friend used to respond to every kid including hers trying to talk to them while they were gossiping with "Shut up and go play, that's why you're here, talk to them not us" and the kids would get upset, throw tantrums or go break something bc the question had been about something important, while my mum got quiet patient kids waiting for their turn, which apparently pissed the friend off. It never occurred to the friend to change her approach, despite that being the only real difference in the situation) Some people refuse to think I guess 🤷‍♀️

I dont think highschoolers are gen alpha

@@stillannoyedguy The problem applies to all children and young people, not just gen alpha. It's just that it's even worse with gen alpha and that's more obvious to the public. But all kids in public schools are suffering.

@@monbub to be honest, anyone who cant read just has a massive skill issue. Im 14 and everyone i know can read

This actually reminds me of back when I was in school and some bullies I had made fun of me because my mom “was so extra”… the examples they gave of her “extra-ness” was showing up to my parent teacher conferences, openly being affectionate and supportive of me (“ugh, why is her mom always saying ‘I love you’ so much?!”), showing up to my performances and events etc etc etc. Suffice to say, it really does begin in the home. It just seems like so many parents are barely present in their children’s lives and don’t advocate for their child’s success

It started with no kids left behind..

The problem with not passing is when you get to middle school you can have 15/16 year old boy/girls mingling with 12/13 year olds. Unfortunately predatory behavior happens. T is a recipe for disaster.

​"No child left behind" was just a catch phrase. It never meant anything.​ It was a term for politicians to sound like they were doing something important. @@QueenSorrow5150

I feel we should destigmatise not passing a grade. It shouldn't be treated as punishment or a reason to shame someone. Some kids need a little more time to mature and get the hang of things. I feel at certain moments in my life it could have been beneficial for me to prolong my education a little more. I don't think it would really count in my future opportunities, as long as the final results were better. I feel that at certain points I was too immature and developmentally delayed to be able to reach my maximum potential at that point in time. Tbh. I was kind of an exception in my school years, with a permanent health condition and the early years of my childhood spent in hospitals. So every adult was quite understanding that I may have problems. Other children unfortunately not so much. :(

@@najpotenicewolf934 I agree! Something no commonly know is that a child is ready to read at 4 or not again until late 7 til 8. USA tries to push through, force feed a skill they are ready for. This effects more males than females because the male brain focuses more on gross motor movements like running, jumping, climbing, etc. at that stage. This doesn’t mean they can’t learn, just their brains and body are geared elsewhere.

Man,that's truly bizarre. As a student (from Brazil too), I saw so many teens/young adults that were so bad in their behavior, teachers were saying that they were being worse than students from the 7th grade ( and sometimes,even worse than the pre-schoolers),,yet, nobody heard them and they just kept ruining the class. Sometimes, most of the classes were like "the class being disturbed,the teacher trying to stop it so she could teach us" and then it repeats,over and over again (with the only class that was a exception being physical education). It was so bad, the teacher was so piss off, she stopped her religious class and for the rest of the class, she tried to tell the monitors that the students were being little monsters. Not even the monitors can stop these types of students, as they see as something normal. And with that info you passed,I am fearing what will our future be.

Here in Argentina is the same, my cousin is 10 years old and he still can't read o write properly but they let him pass to next grade anyway. I'm gen z and I had to learn to read and write at 6 otherwise you couldn't pass.

Brazil too?

Schools babysit kids so parents can go to work, and your job is to train workers, not educate children. We need them to have an HS degree so they can go to work, they dont need to be smart to work. If you thought you were there for another reason, you should change professions.

Now it's everywhere. Students can't respect the teachers and viceversa because they'll face consequences with the parents, directives and the board.

Depending where you like. The government may eventually be teaching her more responsibility than bar parents have. Let her keep messing up. She will learn. Just the hard way

Shes lucky. In my dad's hometown a girl stole her parents car and was riding with a friend and totaled the car and they both died. That was a few money ago.

Omfg....

That's not modern day parenting, that's just rich people

Had she been injured, she would have been a “poor and unlucky” victim… ffs

I was with you until your fourth point. No more excuses. It's not the phones, because their mind will just find something else to occupy it if you remove devices. As adults we need to take responsibility and recognize that if children are paying attention to things other than the lecture, they either have some heavy life stuff going on or the lecture is ineffective at capturing their attention and dolling out information. Making sure that children can no longer contact their family members during the day sets a dangerous precedent too. A teacher took my friend's diabetes pump away from him we were kids because it was a portable device. Newsflash: insulin pumps run on smartphones now. Life isn't black and white, and imposing a ban on portable devices is just a way to shift blame.

@@mistermoo7602 we had a student record other kids using the bathroom at my school. We have had five fights in my school break out this year alone because kids were texting one another and met up in the hallways to attack. I had a mother text her high anxiety daughter that her step father who raised her was in a car accident and then not respond for HOURS, step father was fine, mom had to turn off her phone. The kid ended up in the nurse’s office until mom texted back to let her know he was fine. Kid was rattled for a week. As for the diabetes pump, I have had students who use those but in my school district all teachers are given that information so stupidity like THAT is avoided. Obviously if the kid is checking blood sugar it is not going to look like a rolling TikTok or watching a RU-vid video.

There's a simple solution to issue 4: sequester the phones and personal electronics while still providing controlled access to them. As long as they're made readily available as children have need of them, those devices can be restricted to a secured location in the classroom, where emergency (or recreational) access can be allowed during non-institutional periods. I work in a governmental secured facility, where personal electronics are restricted by law, and my employer provides this accommodations to their employees to allow them to still have access to their personal accounts while still on company grounds. Besides, public institutions have emergency numbers available to allow parents to call administrative staff directly as needed. Parents would be wise to have those numbers within their contacts to be used in conjunction with notifying their children as well.

@@joelwarren6005 please tell parents this. Schools are trying to implement this but the problem is parents will come to schools and fight with administrators that they NEED to have immediate access to their children...

Did you forget no child left behind ?

Me, all the way. I'm a teenager, a black teenager at that, who is in the 8th grade who can read at a 11th-12th grade level. I always score top of my grade and have straight A's with a side of B's sometimes. I have a lot of trouble relating to my classmates because I think that they just don't want to learn and want to scroll through Tik Tok instead, and listen to whoever's trending. I grow up with "no phone until high school", moderated computers, and other stuff, but I know it's for the best. And when I'm in school hearing students getting Fs and failing grades, I'm used to it, but stepping back and really looking at the bigger picture makes me realize how sorrowful and sad it is, and how lucky I am right now to have the mindset I do.

​@lmho0254 Keep that mindset as long as you can. The internet (unless you're actually seeking information) isn't worth it right now. Far too much hate and misinformation. Just remember when looking up stuff to check the sources given and if possible, check THOSE sources as well, because even then some of the "sources" are fake, wrong or misleading. Good luck 👍

Me! My mom is an educator, and has always been strict with grades at my house. I'm definitely performing above level in general, and I'm way above my peers. It's difficult when nobody around you seems to care about their work.

I was reading at a college level probably around middle school (i don't remember when, but i know i was reading authors like stephen king and piers anthony by 6th grade, which i think is "middle" school if a school has one (ours was prek to 6, 7 to 12)). Loved reading. Wanted to be an author and have an in-home library (the last one i have done, since it's only 1k books and they don't _have_ to be on shelves). I excelled in school except for gym, health, and one math class i hated the teacher of. But i had absolutely nothing in common with the kids in my grade. Kids would be so unenthused about reading they'd barely read the sparknotes while i'd read the assigned book in the first 2 days. We read romeo and juliet and i was trying not to laugh in the back of the room because it was *funny* and the rest of the kids weren't paying enough attention to even really know what was happening. Skip forward a decade or so from school, i have been doing musical theater. Sometimes our director would write his own show to be frugal and we did one that floored me with how little people understood what was going on. I mean, i guess "eunuch" isn't a common word so it's possible not to know it, but all the references to great literature and classics was completely missed by teens and young adults. I had to explain the oedipus complex joke to somebody who was 17. And i didn't think my schooling was that great, but we still learned about classics and the references in modern media to them in high school. I'm sure of it.

relatable because my education was supported at a very early age that i now enjoy learning in high school and its very hard to relate to my classmates, i understand why they behave the way they do but its sad and sometimes it does get hard to learn in school (Im latina)

Also, even when parks and libraries are around, parents don't want to take their kids there due to lack of time or them not caring enough to take them, and then these parks and libraries aren't close by or in places where kids can safely walk alone to these places. Then these places get torn down because the city thinks, "Oh well, I guess kids don't like parks or libraries any more..." when in reality, these kids wanted to go but weren't able to.

I think this feeds into the parents being burnt out as well. Statistically, parents are spending more time with their kids than ever, but it seems like being *with* a child all the time is in some ways detrimental. We socially shame and punish parents for not supervising their kids during every moment of their lives, so they never learn to be independent or have unstructured socialisation with their peers. It's hard to see when parents are meant to get a break. Third spaces and spaces where kids were allowed to have a degree of independence (malls, arcades, parks, libraries, community centres, heck, just playing with the neighbour kids in the front yard) have disappeared, and so all of that socialising is done in the home. And, with fewer multigenerational homes forming multigenerational neighbourhoods, parents (and particularly mothers) have had to step into the gap, while also shouldering the weight of full time or multiple jobs. I do not envy parents or teachers these days, it's miserable.

@bradleybrown8428 In London their definitly is. Scouts and Guides, Boys Brigrade. These ALL GO from 4-18 years old. Yes you wont be able to find a space due to the lack of volunteers but clubs are still out there.

Related to this- and this may be a controversial point but hear me out- the general public has stopped going to church but not really replaced it with anything. I’m not saying this as a religious statement, but just a social one. Churches used to be major community organizations. They’re certainly less so now. Kids used to spend Sunday mornings in Sunday school. Even if you don’t believe in the religious teaching there, it was still another day of education. It would be another day of reading by reading Bible stories (which also probably teaches kids a bit about history and culture- I remember learning a lot about the Roman Empire in church). Kids in Sunday school do art and learn to sing, which is at least helping build creativity, and probably helps with school performance as well. My point isn’t that everyone needs to have their kids in church every Sunday, but that doing something productive on Sundays rather than letting the kids spend the whole weekend on their iPads has to be helpful.

People who don't enjoy children have children and don't enjoy it. 😂

I empathize with her as a piano teacher. I’ve had to let go of several students due to poor behavior, and it’s not only embarrassing for the parents, but it’s tragic for the child that can’t sit for 45 minutes to study and enjoy their hobby because they have no discipline or patience and just want to go home and play Roblox. And you’ve never seen a disobedient child until you’ve seen a disgruntled 5 year old muslim child that is raised to not listen to women. Had to explain to the parents that he wouldn’t listen during lessons and it was very obvious he didn’t respect me as a female teacher. The parents sullenly nodded, as if they weren’t the cause of the child’s behavior. I can’t imagine how he behaves in school now and what unfortunate teachers have to deal with his learned behavior. Parents need to discipline their children, and teachers need to have more of a backbone. A child will walk all over you once they know you’ll let them do whatever they want. I don’t think kids need to be beaten, but they need more than a spineless adult as a proper parental figure. They need guidance. Today’s parents just sort of hope their child will grow themselves up, did y’all grow yourselves up? That’s not how humans work in a proper society.

i was raised in a GATE (gifted and talented education) elementary school and usually, you only had 1 or 2 of those “troublemaker” students. of course, the number grew in middle school (that required GATE education for admission) but was still small. because my parents moved, i switched to a closer high school in a different district that was not associated with the GATE program. education was worse, obviously, but so was everything else. the school was much smaller and usually at least half the class were so disrespectful either to each other or to the teachers. the teachers usually reprimand them but they do not change. for example, my spanish teacher (not in my class) has so many students fight in class, yell in class, and refuse to do work. despite calling parents, nothing changes because they say, “in school, teachers should handle their students. it is your fault for not controlling them.” i know this because my spanish teacher holds a very small spanish 3 and AP spanish literature class (that im in) that helps her relax.

​@@CraiiZeDaw shit the sexism taught starts that young huh? Poor thing

It really breaks my heart that content like that is easily accessible for children! What the heck is this world coming to?!

​@@CraiiZeDMy own piano/keyboard teacher has to deal with this bull crap. He doesn't deserve the constant interruptions, which is why many speculate hes leaving the school😢.

I’m gen z (20 years old), i always preferred graphic novels over chapter books as well bc im a visual learner and have inattentive ADHD. It might be worth getting her evaluated for ADHD she might be having trouble staying focused?

@@isabelle9773My son didn’t like reading at first and was a weak reader until we switched to online school for third grade. His birthday is also late May, so he was one of the youngest kids in his grade every year. I read to and then with him from his textbooks and let him read whatever he wanted from the library for entertainment. He started out with below grade level books and graphic novels, and I let him go to town. It helped build his confidence, and he was on track at the end of that year. He’s 18 now and graduated in time where his teachers were pushing to have him diagnosed with ADHD and medicated before that. After two years of online school, I never heard about ADHD again. I think he was just immature for his age the first few years and fell through the cracks because he just wasn’t interested at first.

@@runninro hello Jen ask mom my son is 42 and got all of his dads and mine’s attention and we did not buy him things. We went to thrift stores and then when he was four or five, I started going just to the hardware store for the lumber store, and making things up that he could exercise on in the backyard so he got a unique toy. He painted it himself. He helped us hammer and nailed it together himself. He decorated it. He took a picture of it ………….was fun. It was not work that was fun spending time with our son. And think of the stories he can tell about he made that and he did this and he painted it. I mean when you work on a project with your hands, you learned in so many different ways because it’s three dimensional. It’s got different sizes, different textures. Some materials are pliable, and some of them are not.

People forget their children aren’t to be treated like pets or eternal babies to spoil, they have to members of society someday, you can’t protect them forever or think they never have to be responsible for their actions.

😭😭 embarrassing and disastrous

"why are you talking to my son" lol "why is your son in my way?"

​@@anissahudson5849no, let's not be dense and forget social norms because we don't like the lady or how she handled the situation. It -is- weird to do that, maybe not the first time but multiple times yes. You talk to a small kids parents. When it comes to strangers, you don't start telling a kid what to do in front of their parents, yes even if theyre not moving in line and yes even if you're nice. It is just a little weird. Ask them together or direct it to the parent. I don't even have a kid and like, am aware of the sort of social etiquette around it. "Fuck that, fuck you, fuck kids! The world doesnt revolve around them!" Yeah I don't think it does but she's not wrong, it's a bit weird. They're not wrong, that kid needed to move their ass.

​@@NocturnalNagatoroBeing racist to someone for asking your kid to move up is an insane take.

Well the boomers raised the parents thats are doing the shitty parenting no one group is to blame, it’s just a whole lot of crappy parenting!

god yes, I was born in 2002 and whenever we went out I brought a book with me... I remember asking my Mum multiple times to ask if I could read at a table if we where waiting for food... its crazy that she used to take books away from me to get me to watch TV as a family.

For what it's worth, I think it could be helpful to these parents to turn the sound off on the iPad, and turn on subtitles. Subtitles have been studied in relation to reading abilities, and they can help with reading comprehension. It's obviously not a complete fix, parents still need to spend time reading with their kids, but I know that sometimes, a parent just needs ten minutes to take a poop in peace, and an iPad makes that possible, so subtitles/captions would be a fair medium in those circumstances.

@@DogMechanic Yeah there are solutions to the ipad situation outside just not giving your kids one. Education apps and games do exist. It seems like people are ignorant to the fact the "iPad" kids is the symptom of the tv and video games scenario that's still prevalent

@@DogMechanic I'd say take it a step further and introduce them to shows and movies with subtitles. I was born in 2001 and I think watching anime with subs helped my reading comprehension since I had to read to understand what was going on. And a side effect of this is that I'm still a huge fan of anime lol (not the weird kind of anime fan, I promise). My mom also had me and my younger siblings watch a lot of educational children's programming growing up as well which helped me retain a desire to learn into my adult life. Those shows also slapped and me and my siblings went out of our way to watch them together (Wild Kratts, Sesame Street, Word Girl, etc ftw). I believe there are ways to incorporate technology into child-rearing in ways that can be beneficial in helping them retain knowledge by giving the children opportunities to apply said knowledge.

This is a stellar comment!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

Its also understandable when in a country higher education is not economically accessible without large sums of money or huge debt

One issue though is in the instance of higher education it's often for profit so you set kids up to deal with massive amounts of debt in early to late adulthood which is a big problem within north America. I don't think school is the most important thing but I do think every person should be able to read and write at, at least a 12th grade level. Parents should also try and gauge what their children are naturally curious about and let their kid explore that or even help them explore it. Especially now and days education isn't as valued but skills are and continue to be. So I'd say at the very least get your kids learning a skill that they are interested in because when learning any skill you start to improve all other aspects of your life and grow more curious about improving others. But a lot of parents don't let their kids explore what they are naturally curious about or have them throw it aside to focus on school and getting into a good college/university. Parents also should try and teach their kids along with helping them which sadly a lot do not anymore, a lot of parents don't read to their kids but every bookworm I know and have met has said their parents would read to them when they were younger which is how they got into reading for themselves and seeing as their parents had a lot of books got their entertainment through reading. Education especially within the US more so in the last decade has actually caused a lot of people more harm than good you end up with massive debt and cannot get a job after spending multiple years in school for a degree because you require 2 - 4 year experience for an entry level position and it's not even a matter of degree just the standards of the job market that make it extremely hard to get into unless you wanna work for no pay as an intern for how ever long you need to in order to actually have that experience which means you can't pay your debt without a second job. A lot of people with degrees are forced to work in dead end jobs because their job market is so hyper competitive or is getting outsourced. Along with you not being able to even own a house. If you get a job out of college it's still not a livable wage because you are paying off hundreds or thousands in debt each month on top of general living expenses so you are left with effectively nothing. I agree kids and really everyone should be focused on trying to learn but I wouldn't say traditionally education is really the best it's slower and unless the job you are going for requires it you don't really need it. At most get your grade 12 and focus on learning by yourself which is a skill in of itself but knowing how to learn is crazy important and it's something schools do not teach given schools are mainly just memory and recall you often do not learn much or retain the information and will forget it once school is over. I feel parents should really try and drive self fulfillment more on their kids over just pure education as you simply will not learn and remember something you find no joy in you have to have fun and love what you are learning in order to actually learn and excel at it which is something school doesn't really teach you. Loads of people who do go to college end up scared of the adult world as well. I got a friend who is doing her masters simply because she doesn't want to experience adulthood yet and she's 23 this isn't even super uncommon either it's quite common. Life is a long journey about self discovery and learning but most of what you learn isn't in school beyond the basics. It's in life and is through what you are passionate about and enjoy and is also what helps set you up for actually enjoying life.

@@MyNamesHunter75 I can get behind a lot of the things you are saying. There was just one quick correction I wanted to point out. The vast majority of colleges and universities within the United Stated are non profit organizations. That doesn't mean they aren't expensive, wasteful, and out to charge as much money as possible. It just means that when revenues exceed expenses, that money stays within the university instead of being paid out to the owners, investors, and or shareholders of the company. There are a few of "for profit" colleges. Those should absolutely be avoided at almost any cost. They are typically very expensive, provide a questionable education, and prey on those who were unable to get into normal universities. In addition, federal grants and student loans are usually unavailable to those who attend these universities.

In countries such as Finland,Singapore, S, Korea and Japan, sports teams are not a part of school. The school heroes are the smart hardworking kids, not the jocks. The governments of those countries spend significantly more on education than sports stadiums and coaches.

You give me hope.

@@zephsmith3499 thank you! 🙂 I'm doing my best

Thank you. Also its crazy how people act like its "hard" to not give youf child an addiction to tablets. They're babies. You had to be the one to give it to them in the first place.

Good on you!! This is heartening to hear.

@@kittimcconnell2633 thank you 🥰🥰

I always felt this way myself. To this day, I've never found the act of reading pleasant. Not in fiction, nonfiction, comic books, text based video games, nothing. However I still read all the time in my daily life! Loving novels is not a requirement to be good at reading.

I know write! As a child, I loved books. Books should be REQUIRED.

As a teen ( young gen z) I'm not the biggest fan of books but I definitely used them in my childhood to develop my reading and writing skills , and I never bullied the kids who loved reading, I was actually curious about what they read and asked questions, but I agree, some kids make fun of other kids that read books and call them nerdy

@@mxcro1 you cant say you love books when you said "i know 'write'"

@@Matsnat64 Just a small mistake probably autocorrect or something. Ofc I know the difference of “write” and “right”. No need to make a big deal about it.

Hey man, I'm 24 but have been feeling the same way since high school. To be frank, it is getting worse and us two individuals might not be able to change it on our own, but being aware makes navigating it a lot easier and can help keep you optomistic about the future.

Its like my gen thinking they can all be game devs. Only its much worse and everyone thinks theyre gonna make money online. Also: more households with two woking parents barely making it doesnt exactly breed confidence in normal jobs.

Its mainly 1) The parents dont care 2) The state doesnt care 3) The students dont care The only people that do care are the teachers. My advice to teachers would be to find books that appeal to the interests of these kids first to use as a gateway into reading other stuff. For me, i've been trying to read William Gibson's Neuromancer whenever i feel like reading. I do have to refer back to stuff online since its a bit difficult to parse, but i do appreciate how vivid everything is.

If you figure it out, let me know... Near as I can tell, it's a combination of students who don't care and administrators who don't care - save for not losing face. There are no consequences if they fail, so why should they care, they think miopicly. Just... Try to focus on working on yourself. Keep yourself open to truly positive connections and close the door on energy vampires.

I'm almost 16, and I have noticed people using ChatGPT in class, and they somehow still passed. I'm not from the U.S, but I've noticed it in my classes. Or, there's people who do nothing. I only do nothing when I'm done my work, to reward myself. I feel like I'm not liked sometimes because of how I think, since I think a lot, and critically. And I'm wondering what's going on. I also want to try and fix things, but I'm not sure where to start, and yeah, it's hard to communicate with certain teachers.

I never understood teachers that were like “YOU HAVE TO DO IT THIS WAY, AND THIS WAY ONLY”. Like I get that you want the child to recognize that the learning style exists, but don’t force the child to use it after the child masters the style.

sometimes the teachers are the problem, not the kids

Amen

@@MothGuyz- im so grateful for my current math teacher because of this. he teaches us multiple ways to do what we're learning and just says to use whichever one we think is easier

​@@frimty Sometimes, but definitely not always.

There's such a huge pressure on people to get married, have kids, start a family... it's treated as a given instead of a commitment you have to actively choose. There are a lot of people that really shouldn't raise children, whether because they'd treat them like garbage or because they'd be deeply unhappy doing it. If we stop acting like these things are life milestones that MUST be completed by everyone, it'd do a great deal of help.

I would like to also include it might just be the parents ideals being taught to the children. Children are like blank canvas and their biggest rolemodels are their parents. These parents might be the best parents to the kids because the kids can do whatever they want but the worst parents to others because no disciplines. They believe in freedom so much so that they let the kids walk all over them to the point it is ridiculous. They believe children are like adults hence should be given such treatments. What the parents believe and act on is a very important puzzle piece in parenting.

I agree. I feel like so many people are having kids just to say that they have kids but don’t actually do anything to educate and raise those kids properly. It’s very concerning. If you’re not ready to be a parent, don’t be a parent!

this is why I really do not plan on having kids until I am both financially stable and mentally/emotionally to have one. I know the many flaws my parents had as they failed to acknowledge the many things I had when I was born (ADHD, etc) and instead, hid them from me until I was 9 but even so, I still didn’t get medicated until later on in high school. ever since I got medicated, I really have managed to understand and learn things that I used to struggle at. I even managed to be capable of helping others with work problems and explaining them (like a friend of mine who might have adhd iirc) that aside, I hope that the pressure to have children at an earlier age goes away. I know that Gen Z has been very stand up against the pressure and that’s really good. It’ll save more torn/stressed parents and kids who might be the product of abusive parents from this in the future.

@@hanayuuki790they don’t seem to understand the difference between being an controlling/authoritarian parent and a mentor/teacher-type of parent who, while letting their child decide their own hobbies, tastes, etc. is still going to teach their children what’s right and wrong and provide appropriate consequences on the actions they took (while using it as a learning moment rather than a opportunity to extend their power)

@@akabaneaki its not an option, it is the ONLY. option. your trauma means nothing in the grand scheme of things, the wellbeing of society is a far greater issue than whatever problems you think you have. school isn't enough, thats simply the truth. you need to get over it and stop complaining like a little baby.

@@pep-167you needa chill bro you just sound mad but u aren’t wrong

@@pep-167 ok sorry then, i don't matter at all in compared to the grand scheme of the wellbeing of society.

@@Houraiji yeah, i am mad, this generation is full of wimps that can't handle studying at home. that's insane to me. school isn't supposed to be easy

@@akabaneaki Don't let that idiot mess you up. You brought up a completely relevant point. There's tons of kids out there like you and the response you got was just the height of stupidity and insensitivity. The reality is this issue is complex and not easily addressed because there's so many variables and circumstances, what will apply to one child won't another. Sorry you had to deal with that gen alpha kid going for your throat

damn. im still having a hard time accepting things have actually gotten this bad. good luck out there

late gen z (2007) here and yeah i worry a fuck ton for yall in gen alpha. like somehow in 10 years weve gone from MOST people being able to atleast get to 7th grade reading level to less than half at that point. literally my brother with a professionally tested iq of 72 can read at a better level than these people

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@tristantheoofer2The problem is not IQ, but lack of productivity. You can have 160 IQ and if you’re lazy, person with 80 IQ will be more successful than you. I Pads etc. don’t lower IQ, but stop your education by increasing lazyness. People are more lazy, because it’s comfortable. I’m also lazy, hopefully less and less, because I try to do something. I’m 15 and despite I was called gifted and tests confirmed it, I wasted 3-4 years of my life for being lazy and not productive.

​​@@alexanderkaminski It's not exactly laziness so much as it's kids getting shortened attention spans because of being on tik tok often. I have ADHD already, so I try to stay away from short form content for that exact reason- it trains people's brains to seek out constant positive stimulus and school often isn't stimulating in the right way for kids to keep their attention on it. Having ADHD sucks because it makes it hard to do anything besides watching RU-vid because anything else, even stuff I enjoy doing, isn't enough stimulus without something else going on in the background-

I would never thought that these comment can be typed by a 12 years old💀 like god damn my friend cant even read at the age of 16💀.bro now ended in special need class that is for the dissabilities 💀 NAHHH SHAAWTIES GOING PLACES 🔥💀💀

​@@tristantheoofer2 I was also born in 2007, I agree.

the "writing essays" will often be used against you when you write too much for an answer to a question that can be answered with one or two words edit (eg "what was a leading factor that led to the civil war" can be answered with just "sectionalism" or "southern sectionalism and interests" and "what is one product of cellular respiration" can be answered with just "co2")

This. It was the same way with me growing up.

Bro why you write a whole essay 💀💀💀 I’m sorry, I had to do that

I loved your "essay". Hello from Russia! I have the same problem. But I started to experience it even at school, thirty years ago. I felt better only after changing schools and finding my own crowd. However, now, being a teacher, I often hurt my adult students by accident when I assume that they know something and it turns out they don't. General knowledge is very poor. :(

Formality is nice, but also remember the value in conciseness and efficiency.

I’m 26 and I also was raised by older boomers! I’m honestly so happy they raised me.

OMG SAME

as someone who’s in high school, I remember how my parents would make me instill learning as far as the age of 9. with my dad going as far as to teach me coding. now granted, i’m not a fan of his teaching methods as his way of teaching was very negative and stressful for someone my age but, I can’t deny that his introduction was essentially what may have planted the seed for my passion with programming as later on I would intergrate it with modding video games and I’m really glad I managed to pick up a skill from there. If i were to have children in the future, I would incentivize their learning rather than force it upon them. encouraging them to learn and integrating what they like into what I’d teach them myself. that way, I can hopefully encourage them to start early at a skill of their choice (even if it may not be coding!) but my overall goal is to let my future child know that their uniqueness is nothing to be ashamed of and that as their father I want to do whatever means I can to support them both emotionally, financially, etc. basically: I’ll be more involved with my child’s school and ensure they aren’t stucking to iPads and if i must give them technology, I would rather let them spend time on playing a video game that encourages them to think (this is what helped me develop my english/math skills earlier believe it or not!) with time limits set and let them have an imagination offline where they can play/read books that interest them instead.

Curious, what did you do for entertainment besides reading?

playing outside, painting, drawing, thinking, playing games, talking, biking, sports, baking, cooking, but there is also so so so much to read at every level of reading@@BlissfulCosmicWaters

I’m sorry, friend. That’s incredibly unfair. I’m proud that you can put it into words like this, because knowing what you have to overcome is half the battle (take it from me, an early genZ who had no chance of recognizing anything). My only input is to try making friends with trusted adults, such as librarians or female teachers, to find someone who treats you with intellectual and emotional respect. That way you can have emotional and physical support when you are being neglected. Someone close to me had a rough childhood like yours and she was able to get through it by getting help including housing from her teachers. If you are dealing with an abusive family dysfunctional to the point you are afraid please listen to your judgement and protect yourself, however that looks for you. You are not guilty or bad for wanting better and doing what’s necessary to defend yourself. You sound brave and I know you can come out of this; it truly does get better. Wishing you a great day.

Your mom sounds like she has some undiagnosed mental issues. A person can function with things like depression, anxiety, CPTSD, etc.

Hey! I hope everything is okay. I'm 18 now, but I grew up in a very similar situation. Luckily I had my very supportive father to fall back on, and as of recently I've cut off my mother for her abusive, narcissistic tendencies. I too had to take care of her from a young age and was exposed to things I shouldn't have been, which looking back normalized very dangerous behavior. All that said, you'll get out of it someday. You'll look back at being 14 and it will feel far away, you'll blink and you'll be there. It feels far away right now, and perhaps it is, but you've grown up with challenges that enable you to be strong. You'll get through this, just like I did. You've got this!

Hey, I know this was two months ago, but I just wanna say sorry for everything you've been through. You deserve the world for staying strong, we're very close in age. Even though i'm technically a random stranger on the Internet, feel free to reply if you need someone to talk to, friend 🫂

Lack of empathy? Everything has been controlled by emotional people feeling bad for others for years now, what are you on about? Kids know if they play victim they can get whatever they want, despite correctness

​@@kylespevak6781it is victimization and segregation, not empathy

I was pouring out my best passionate teaching and the kids said "you should have a tik tok for your content." That was the biggest compliment and yet the saddest thing I ever heard because they don't understand the "world." The internet has taught them that the world is not a good place and is keeping them out of it. To the point that they want to bring anything good to the online world and keep it there.

@@alissanelson1156 Welp, im on my path to being a failure.

I actually noticed the empathy thing. I recently finished high school and so many of my classmates and other students just didn't seem to care. I used to hold doors open for people for all the time. And yes I did get thank yous but no one else did anything remotely polite like that from what I can remember. Hopefully this doesn't make me come off as stuck up or rude but I appreciate that someone else noticed it aswell

I retired 8 years ago after 28 years, most of which I spent teaching math. During my last eight years we had to teach everyday math. Teachers at my school could only find one school in the district that voted for it. We were told it was the chosen program by the teachers. I hated teaching it! I had well educated parents scheduling conferences and asking me to explain how to teach this new way of math. I LOVED teaching math until we switched to EM…so sad.

Amen! That's why we have remedial classes in colleges, we had Latin, German, French, Spanish, and calculus in HS. My HS still does but it seems as though not many care to qualify for advanced studies. The thing kids are excelling at most it seems like is gaslighting and disrespect. They major in online inappropriate chats, games and social media sites. Why I'll retire sooner than I planned.

@@karenrobinson2962 In our school district, Everyday Math was discounted, whereas the other programs weren't. What I find difficult in working with my child is that it;s language-based math, and my son struggles with dyslexia. Imagine a child whose mother tongue is not English!

I so agree with you. Phonics, prefixes and suffixes help with reading. Even when new words are introduced, the student can figure out what is the meaning of the word. There are students who can't even read their name printed in front of them. I have a friend that teaches theater arts in the high school. He wanted to put a play on with his students and he couldn't give them the simplest script because so many of them cannot read. So he figured out an alternative that would not involve reading a script. But it's having your character and letting the character drive the storyline. The kids say they want to do a play but they don't show up and there is no consequences to they're not showing up. It is the most pathetic thing. I went to school in the '50s and '60s so you know I know about reading. Every week we got 10 spelling words of which we had to spell correctly, find out the definition and write the word in a sentence. Then we were tested on Friday. They no longer do that so no wonder the kids have this abysmal vocabulary and cannot even sound out words, let alone spell them correctly or know the meaning of them. And the parents are so limited. They're just happy that the kid is going to the next grade even though they don't know the work of their current grade. What of flop. All I can do is hope.

I do think we need to go back to explicit spelling and especially vocabulary instruction. I can say, I didn't learn from the Multiplication tables. I'm visually dyslexic, but I remember what I recite. Had we memorized and recited our times tables, I'd probably know them now. Bottom line is we really need to have the time to scale those areas where student struggle. If they can't read, we need more support programs. We need to emphasize vocabulary-building. We need to build number sense. But none of that matters if the teachers are the ONLY ones supporting the child's education.

W parent. I’m on the younger side of Gen Z and I got handed a real phone at 10 after my constant pestering and begging, and eventually, I did get one and I was thrilled. However, the effects of having that phone so young definitely affected me today. It will be hard to reject your child over and over again about having a phone because “everyone in school has them.” But, whenever you decide that they are mentally fit to have a cell phone, no doubt they will be grateful that you didn’t give it to them in the past.

​@@chalkmarkers almost 12 here. I don't have a phone and probably will get one when I'm 14. I do have a tab though, and while I do watch RU-vid and play games and stuff, I also read a LOT. Recently I read 3 books in one day all on my tab (400+ pages totally i think im not sure). So honestly I'm really glad I got some sort of access to the Internet, or else I would never be as big of a reader as I am today.

⁠@@chalkmarkersI’m sorry you’re still impacted by using electronics at a young age. My eldest will be 20 in March. He didn’t get a cell phone with an internet connection until he was well past 13 and neither will my 11 year old. They were both given our old phones they could play age-appropriate games on for one hour a day before 13. Electronic time has been limited, parental controls have been installed on all devices, they haven’t been allowed to have social media accounts until they were mature enough to handle them, but no younger than 14. I have never given my children something because they wouldn’t stop asking for it. If a parent actually cares about the future of their children’s lives, not just the years spent in their home, parenting will be the hardest job they will ever have. I love my children enough to make them temporarily unhappy. Is it fun? No, but it’s worth it.

@@ashtonstout7375 Fabulous job, I wish my parents would follow your mindset. But whenever I get kids, I will do the exact same thing you’re doing right now 💯

@@hafnahaleema4765 Good job, my brother is in 7th grade (I think the same grade as you if you’re in public school) and he has the read index of a 4th-5th grader 😭. So it raises my spirits to hear that there is hope for your generation. As a 14-year old, there are positives to phones like contacting, socializing, and connecting with your peers and family when necessary. However, just a warning whenever you do get your phone, dont get sucked in (unconsciously) to the endless scrolling platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, Snapchat Snaps, or RU-vid Shorts. Mainly TikTok though. If you do find yourself doing so, try to take a step back and do something else lol.

I was with you until you thought closing schools during a deadly pandemic was "stupid." Of course, students suffered with distance learning, but Covid-19 is no joke. 1,000,000 Americans died during the height of the pandemic, especially before vaccines against it were available. Many of those deaths could have been avoided had people taken the threat seriously and followed the CDC and WHO rules of social distancing and wearing a mask in public.

@@paulawashington3175 agree. Closing schools was unavoidable and could have been ended much sooner if people had followed the rules like in other countries

Maybe if the US spent a little less than 820 billion dollars per year on the military, they could stand to pay teachers with masters degrees and phds more than 60k a year. More and more young teachers are quitting because of the low pay and horrible parents. Which, y’know, is not a good sign Edit: got to the part of the video where she talked about teacher’s pay lmao

@@galaxykitten6849 the military is paid through the federal government. Teachers are paid by the state. Nobody expects to get rich from teaching. We do expect to have admin support.

Growing up in the 60s very few children in my area went to preschool. Letters were introduced in Kindergarten. Kids did fine with that. First grade cemented letters and taught words. Dick and Jane generation with phonics thrown in. What we did have was classroom helpers (parents, usually 2) who helped keep us (30+ students) on tract and moving on. The parents didn’t stay all day, they just came in during reading and math of offering the in class 1 on 1 help. Cut down on student frustration and giving up. My mom taught 1st grade in the 80s and worked closely with parents who helped in her classroom. She loved it, but many other teachers didn’t so chose to have no parents in their rooms.

I grew up in the 60s too and by the end of the first grade we were reading and masters of sounding out words. By the end of the third grade I could read Hardy Boy mystery books, the newspaper, and comics like MAD magazine. All we had were pencils, paper and books. All the teachers had were chalkboards and chalk. And nobody worried about what teaching method was best for us. You don't need a lot of funding for the basics. BUT, it was a totally white school with based two parent families and teachers who had TOTAL control of the class. Nobody EVER talked back to the teacher. EVER! There would have been a massive overwhelming response from parents if we acted like students act today in class. I never even thought about missing a day of school and playing hooky. Reading is not rocket science. Spelling correctly is though harder.@@kenyonbissett3512

I have heard many stories about this! I have experienced one of my kids not reading until after Christmas in 1st grade. Our second son has struggled up until recently in 2nd grade. We have asked for years if we had a learning disability. Everyone said, he will catch up. Come to find out the way he was taught to read in kindergarten was not productive! They were taught the cuing system to read. Our admin has argued with a reading teacher that they only needed to practice 15 mins of phonics. Let me tell you that isn't enough. May be part of the reason my youngest has struggled. If the admin is arguing with teachers who are actually doing the work...and then you have teachers using the ching system. 😡😡🤬

@@KS-un3pi it has to do with brain development. Boys brains are ready to read at 4 or not again until they are 7/8. It’s not a disability, it’s just the difference in physiology between girls and boys. At this stage of development boys are working more on gross motor skills like running, jumping, climbing, etc. That said there are 5 ways to teach reading. Some systems are 1 way, while other combine approaches. The real problem comes in if psychologically that child is damaged because they are bullied by peers, receive anger from parents for. It trying or teacher’s frustration. Some programs are very expensive to lease and require a class of no more than 5 or 6. While others are very inexpensive and serve a many. Obviously schools go with cost. For grades 1-3, I believe there should be a reading specialist to catch those falling between the cracks and to assess the correct system for them. Due to children’s low threshold for frustration, anxiety and behavioral problems, a behavioral specialist should be assigned to work with the 1-3 teachers and students. Because reading is so fundamental to future success an emphasis needs to be placed on grades 1-3. This would save so many children from future problems. Many very intelligent individuals have delayed learning, think Albert Einstein who didn’t start reading until he was 10. There are other but I won’t drone as it’s easy to Google.

I would say this is definitely a multilayered issue for sure. But one thing I've noticed just from training to be a teacher these past few years is the emphasis on "free learning" is actually a detriment. It sounds like a positive thing-- let them be engaged in the things that interest them. But it actually causes a reverse effect where its only "fun" to learn about what they want to and they never gain the discipline to understand that a lot of times in life we have to do stuff we dont like etc. Another thing that's been a problem is the emphasis on making learning as "engaging and fun" as possible and the demonization of using any kind of repetitive drills to assure knowledge. Some things just need to be written or gone over multiple times to actually get it. And its just not something thats done anymore because they want to cram too much into a class curriculum.

I’m a 2010 and I’ve been experiencing this as well. It’s crazy how the kids only blame their teachers.

if you were born in 2010 i don’t think you’re gen alpha. if i remember correctly, 2012 was the cutoff from gen z to gen alpha. however, yes, this issue is also affecting some kids in the younger gen z range. i’ve definitely noticed some middle school kids that i’ve tutored struggle to do basic math or read short passages. it definitely scares me because some of those kids are still going to move onto the next grade. and it also hurts to see the kids that are doing fine get constantly irritated by the people around them not listening to teachers or refusing help. overall it’s just horrible and i hope that something changes.

​@@soggy_toastedbreadYeah, the problem definitely applies to gen Z kids as well (although it seems to be even worse with gen alpha). I'm a 2005 kid currently on my last year of high school and it's absolutely WILD how short technology has made our attention spans! For example, when we have to write an essay and there's a source material that's about 1-2 pages, many people don't even properly read through it because they deem it too long... I really miss those times in elementary and middle school when we had physical copies of our textbooks instead of these damn laptops :/

2010 kid here!! in 6th grade, some of my classmates in my social studies class said they cant read a analog clock :/

you’re gen Z

One of my issues with standardized testing is how it discourages students. I'm a college student going into my fourth semester and I almost didn't go to college. My ACT test results came back and told me my stem skills were below average and that they "recommend" I pursue the trades. This caused me a lot of grief for the rest of my high school career and a lot of stress going into college. However, I'm still happy I pursued college even after being told I was not ready. I have been getting all A's and B's and I am pursuing a degree in biomedical science. I most certainly have the knowledge and work mentality to go into a stem career and it's sad that a 5 hour test almost convinced me to not go. Also, College Board just want their money. They don't care about the students and we should really reconsider following their academic guidelines.

Standardized testing is for standardized kids. I don't believe God made any of those yet.

You know I don’t think a lot of people actually realize how intense the program is to be come a teacher, I did the program in 2014-2019 for secondary science the EDTPA test is no joke and the curriculum: all of the courses on diversity training, applicable law studies, pedagogy etc. What she said in the video about kids learning in different ways is nothing new, it’s basic teaching theory. What is killing the profession is as you said standardized testing and teaching to a test along with policies like no child left behind and of course a lack of respect for the profession from parents, students, district board members, and policy makers. It’s why even after all that work I put into becoming a teacher because I really like it I ended up taking my chemistry degree elsewhere, because for the pay and the amount of hours you have to put in to make every lesson engaging just to then have to deal with entitled parents?? Nah f that. I sometimes feel guilty because my mentor had said that she believed I would have been a positive stem field woman minority role model for students but ain’t no way I’m struggling like that. Rant over in conclusion you’re right lol.

It is not quite the lack of trust, it is the fact that kids need to know certain things and skills by a certain age to be competitive in the global marketplace. How can we compare how kids in the US are doing compared to kids in China? A standardized exam is really the only way to do so fairly. It just so happens that kids in the US fear exams and hate learning because A)they feel like they don’t need education B) the parents don’t feel like education is important and C) the culture does not feel like education is important.

Except it doesn’t because they are outperforming us overseas. We don’t take the same exams so there is nothing to compare. There are educational standards across the country that we teach to and no one is saying to eliminate the standards because they are an incredible guideline for lesson planning and pacing. However, the standardized testing eats up instructional time we could be using for intervention and differentiation. My kids get tested monthly and all they do is click. I could be teaching them something useful and get more accurate data with informal testing and from assignments. If we actually want growth we certainly aren’t using any reasonable scale to determine it.

Not all curricula. I am a substitute teacher in elementary schools (TK - 5th). We use phonics from TK on…. I’m in a low income school primarily. I’m very encouraged by the number of students reading during Kindergarten. Yes, I also see several 4th and 5th graders way behind.

@@Reader21 I would love to tutor kids. It is very rewarding watching children get excited about reading.

@@Reader21those older students may be dyslexic. If there’s a phonics program used and they still struggle, their reading instruction may not be explicit enough for their needs. Just a thought.

@@thomgrlisdebra agree for many

Why didn't she go to kindergarten knowing how to read a little. Or grade 1? Your blaming the school lol and it was your own mom who had to do something. You're the problem not the curriculum.

Common core was implemented right when I graduated 8th grade. It was too new to be too influential in my high school classes. However, almost every single one of my middle school teachers quit within the next 4 years because of how restricted they felt by common core. Common core was the worst thing that could have been done to kids and teachers.

Yes and it started with prescription drugs for every emotion for every man woman child

@@CC12398 Boom....hit the nail on the head!

literally fahrenheit 451 lmao

While powerful people have steered many things in society with evil intent I am quite sure of that; most parents have no one to blame but themselves for allowing their small child to be leashed to a flat screen. Granted many don't realize the danger of screens but as a responsible adult its up to you to research. The government has not forced parents to allow their 3 year old hours on that iPad, the parents allowed it. The dye is set by the time a child enters first grade. 0-6 are the crucial years and those are the years parents have the most control over. Even a good teacher has an uphill struggle teaching children whose upbringing has left them learning disabled. Without enough time spent on free play and parental interaction the child by school age will be facing underdevelopment of the neocortex and prefrontal cortex as well as lack of spatial reasoning, problem-solving, language and creativity. The teacher cannot make up for that or give that to the child. The teacher is there to teach them to read, write and do arithmetic, but these children are entering school without the brain development to be able to do that.

I’m an older millennial and almost a generation X.

I'm also late gen z born in 2009 I thought I was gen A but seems like I found this comments makes it feel better read a book about the long march in the school library

i got my first device (its a laptop) when i was maybe 8? idk, but thank god it wasent a phone (my mom is planning to buy me a phone when i turn 15)

I was born in 2005 and had my own PC since I was at least 6, and I honestly think it was the best decision my parents could've ever made, since it's how I got basically all my skills

EXACTLY! I was born in 2008 and I got my first phone in sixth grade. My sister got her first phone at SIX!

Yep. My 6 year old heard something about radiation one day and asked what it was so we watched a video on what it is and what it does to your body, she was fascinated.

I hope to be qualified parent like you someday! ❤

when I was younger my dad would teach me biochemistry, and practice with me the lessons he gave to his students. they were college students, I was in elementary school, but he explained it well enough that I understood a lot anyway. he would also help me practice math.

Also, the words people use online are generally very basic and not put together well. Those kids CAN'T read. They can recognize words they see a lot. Like a dog with a command. That's not reading 💀

*Laughing Out Loud

the issue is alot deeper than slang words, slang has existed ever since language has, plus there are generations that grew up with the same internet access and social media and turned out fine, its not the internets fault its because the schools don't punish kids and they let kids pass no matter what

@newmoonwithface i dont think anyone would claim slang is the issue, just that parents might be fooled into thinking the kid can read if they're on social media all the time, but it's actually pattern recognition. Also, literacy has been going to shit since the 90s. it's bigger than even that, though i agree it does have an effect. I just watched a video called "Children in late stage capitalism" or something like that, and it really covers all the bases. No one has the time or energy for them. Currently, the world is more hostile to children than ever before. Kids need attention, but every adult in their life is too tired and exploited to give it.

its a joke @@newmoonwithface

Well, what do they do with the library cards?

⁠@@flygrrrrl3753they just need the table and our wifi. They still do learn, but without books.

@@flygrrrrl3753probably use the computers, printers, copiers, etc… some libraries also have streaming services you can use a card for or you can get passes to museums and whatnot for free. But it differs depending on the state and county!

@@flygrrrrl3753 get on the internet on the free computers, or checkout ipads and use those to get on the free internet.

@@flygrrrrl3753 Most libraries have computers/online recourses, they are most likely using those to either game or search things online.

This is awesome. I learned to read around 1995 from studying my Sea Monkeys manual 😂

I love this approach! Media can be a useful tool if used appropriately. I use it with my children now. Reading was always something that came easier for me. When I was in grade school my younger brothers would marvel at how “good” I was at the Zelda games and asked how I could get so far. I very plainly explained “I just read all the boxes and follow the clues.” This helped motivate them in a small way to pay more attention in English class 😅

My now 16 y/o grew up learning to read from Legend of Zelda, too, and now we love to just sit and talk about game stories. That's so awesome!! You did great! Fun is the key to learning!

This gives me the warm fuzzies! I have such fond memories of playing FFVIII with my brothers. They just don't make them like that anymore :')

good on you! you sound like a great parent.

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I read to my kid every day. She hates reading and school so much that I had to quit my job to deal with the violent fights and meltdowns. There is so much going on here besides parents not reading to their kids.

When I was five or six, my mother (working at the time, with a 30-40 min commute each way) taught me to read by reading with me. She would read aloud and pause to let me read the easier words. More words became easy and we started to do alternate sentences, and then I was reading solo. The notion of children not being eager to learn to read seems hard to understand. But when I was in sixth grade, there were kids in my class whom it was painful to hear struggle with the most basic vocabulary. And I know a divorced mom with three kids, and the youngest, in third grade, started kindergarten at home in front of a screen. She's helping as much as she can, and she has a supportive family (not the dad), but her kid is struggling. One thing that would help a lot is if the school would give her guidance on what is being taught when; it's information that's especially hard to get now that everything is on chromebooks that stay at school.

“i love learning but the school system drains all the love for it out.” i couldn’t have said it better. also we’re the same age lol (well probably, my birthday’s in december)

@@SakuraSylv happy late birthday!

@@ohhhhdear thank you!

YES. last year in my math class, i had no interest at all, i couldnt pay attention, and the way the teacher explained everything made no sense at all. This year, I moved to highschool and math might be my easiest subject now, the teacher explains everything perfectly and helps students step by step if they raise their hand, people in that class are the type that also express no interest in the class and talk with their friends, but the teacher makes sure to talk with them after the lesson so they know how to do the materials, its amazing. and honestly, i hate school, but not learning, i hate school for the reason that i can walk into a classroom and one of my teachers will be reading off a power point she didnt even make, or also that another might not have any lesson plans to even show us half the time. why would i come to school just to sit at my desk all tired and on my phone?? it sucks with those kinds of teachers.

@@hiccup7457 i know exactly what you mean dude, it’s really frustrating. i also had a similar thing happen, where before high school i was awful at math, but as soon as i got there it just clicked. my teacher sucked but he was a nice guy, you just had to force him to help you lol

Even in Australia! It's not just The US and Europe, even we on the southern hemisphere have this problem.

@@ganpsao It truly is a worldwide crisis then…

@@rui6122 I would be shocked if this were a problem in Japan or South Korea. And no, I'm not trying to romanticize Asian countries; I sincerely wouldn't think this would be an issue of the same magnitude in countries where education is valued and teachers are still respected on a cultural level. Now I am curious about the global trends on this.

Europe covers a large area and consists of many countries. All have different educational systems. You can’t speak about one country’s situation and generalize it. You could be in Russia, Croatia or Portugal. Huge differences.

@@minoozolala Of course, I said my issues with employment is related to my Country, not to Europe. I said I’m European meaning that I’m not American basically… I’m Italian. Moving on from that particular issue with the italian school system, this cultural and educational crisis can be found anywhere in Europe in varying degrees… Ask youngsters all over Europe what they think the priority in teaching children these days is and the vast majority will reply “gender”, for example… Yeah, even in Russia I bet. Or Northern Macedonia. Literally everywhere. Unfortunately gen z internalised all of the worst sides of globalisation (no critical thinking, blindly following postmodern social diktats in the name of progress…)

I live in Turkiye, same goes for my students as well. I am a high school chemistry teacher. I mostly worked with private schools. The only thing matters now is how content the child and parents are. The principal doesn't care if kids learn something, he only cares about next years' enrollment. So he can have money to get a new car etc. Kids are becoming ruthless and ill-hearted. They can't do basic math, have no interest in anything, only caring for getting rich via internet.

@@jetz4r A rather similar situation in Australia. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i7pxWtQwOgY.html&ab_channel=InsideChinaBusiness In China, for schoolchildren the "aspirational job" is to be an Astronaut. In Australia, it is to be a RU-vid Influencer. One Country is on the path to success, the other on the path to ruin.

Very true. My mom worked full time during Covid, while my little sister had to do schooling online. She already struggled with reading (we're pretty sure she's dyslexic), and being told she was completely responsible for her own education at the age of eight crippled her

I can also confirm this is true. Luckily, I'm still doing well in school, but the COVID-19 pandemic felt like a gap in my schooling. I did the work, but I probably didn't get the same value from it as I would've if in school those same years.

I'm Gen Z but I noticed this as well. My younger cousins who are older Gen Alpha have been struggling since COVID. My cousins are smart however they perform below the grade level because they never learned during the quarantine. As a college student I've noticed this in myself as well, I'm struggling with units I never used to struggle with before.

omg my covid grades were the worst of any year

Mid gen z here, I was a junior in high school during online school and that was probably the worst year of my life then, I could barely finish the year. It was hard enough doing school online with teachers who didn’t know how to do it, I can only imagine how it would be a kid having to learn the fundamentals through Covid.

It's not that simple. I am the mother of one of these kids. I don't own a smart phone. I only consume content from my tablet at home in the morning. I am Gen X. I am married and my husband is an educated professional. We struggled to get our girl reading. I had people telling me to get my 11 year old a cell phone. Like what? No. She needs books. She's okay now, but we had to make it a priority.

Did you just comment and not watch the video? Stupid comment #37 I've seen today. Thank you.

⁠@@destmichael i remember at the same age as your daughter i really wanted a phone cause some of my classmates had some. i got a flip phone a year or two later (so i could go to my friends houses and didn't have to go home to ask) and then at 15 i got a iphone... bad idea. i'm planning to switch back to my flip phone next year because i just cant focus on anything anymore

@@42seven similar thing here. My parents did cave with the iPhone after a lot of asking, but the effect was the complete opposite and I literally never (and still never) used it. Occasionally I call and text my parents with it and maybe a google search if I need a quick answer to a question, but most of the time it’s just sitting on the kitchen counter.

Lol Minecraft taught my kid to spell before he even hit kindergarten. Don't blame technology cause your students can't type /give @s barrier.

More households than ever with two working parents and many of them still barely making it. The blame goes to us as a society as a whole. This is a complex issue with many contributing factors. We keep letting the 1% strip us of our time and resources while blaming the 'other' political party even though we agree on 90% of issues.

I'm a late Gen Z (2008) and i'm glad my parents didn't use technology as a crutch to raise me.

​@@2006honda_civicLXSame, I'm from around your time and I'm glad my parents only gave me my first phone when I was in 5th or 6th grade. It really shows which parents care for their children and which don't.

@@LarryTheTugaGamer1511I’m a ‘09 kid, I didn’t get my first phone until this year, and while I do watch lots of RU-vid, I have a couple of library apps on my phone and I started learning Dutch through my phone recently. Technology is both a blessing and a curse because it can help kids who actually want to learn, but it distracts kids who don’t care away from learning.

@@wrenithilduincats Exactly. There should be balance. Unfortunately, today's kids and teens don't care about that. I watch a lot of RU-vid and play a lot of games, but I still educate myself with the resources I have. I even taught myself how to fluently speak English at 11 using only my phone. I guess it just comes down to one's responsability to manage what you use technologies for.

You are having the same situation as me Catra, the EXACT situation essentially.

I had the opposite situation. Early grades were pathetically easy then middle school hit and I had no work ethic/habits

IEP doesn’t help either. Your parents need to get a proper tutor.

AUGHHHA SAME, even though I only failed 1-2 classes, I still feel guilty for being passed to the next grade :/

I agreeee

*sugarcoat (yes I'm being the grammar police but that's because it's important for people to know what words and saying they're spelling instead of making phonetic guesses, the internet in general getting worse and worse at setting examples makes people who learn from others also become worse and worse.)

There's actually zero basis to the idea of "not letting your kids use ipads", by the way. It's just some parroted nonsense at this point. Tech can advance your kid's knowledge at a rapid pace, likely the pandemic is more of the issue.

​@@electricpurple4112 I think it's both. People are ignoring the fact that a whole year and a half of online school is inevitably going to leave your kids falling behind, especially when it's a new thing that teachers and parents alike were not prepared to deal with. I think people are ignoring it because every generation loves to take every chance they get to pull up the tiring, "It's because kids are spoiled and get to do whatever they want!" or the, "Kids are getting dumber and dumber!" excuses to make themselves feel superior. As for iPads, I think it depends. I agree that it can help kids if used correctly and there are boundaries set. Some kids are watching YTK for hours on end because the parents don't want to interact with their kids, which can cause a lot of issues, but watching a couple of DECENT shows on an iPad or playing a game that can enhance your problem solving skills (which I think is most games) in some way. Everything is fine when done in moderation. I also think that neglecting kids has become more and more normalized, and it's because we've been holding parents accountable less and less. Parents have too much power, and the school districts and the media coddle parents. Teachers can insult the kids to their faces, but they can't tell the parents that those kids have any issues, because saying that the child is struggling at something is seen as an attack against their own parenting, implying that they are doing something wrong as parents, and a lot of parents don't like that. You can't even give advice online or spread awareness about a certain way of parenting that can hurt kids without some Karen crying, "Who are you to judge us as parents and tell us how to parent our kids! I'm tired of this mommy shaming! It's stressing me out!" As if their own egos are more important than their child's well-being.

​@@electricpurple4112I see we found the iPad mom.

@@electricpurple4112 When used correctly. I’d say it’s less iPads that are the problem and more parents letting their kids on the internet and social media from a very young age. I don’t know ANY kid that benefited from skibidi toilet and elsa and spider man pregnancy videos

@@electricpurple4112 I think most people are blaming the blanet "iPads" because it's easier to say than "parents who hand their kid whatever is readily available so they'll shut up and not require actual attention when it's not inconvenient for the parent at that very moment."

Yes. 100% yes. This is what I feel and want to say every time I see a video or article about how gen alpha are illiterate and uneducated - the pandemic did a terrible number on education for all, but there was issues in the education system before that. Gen z was called illiterate themselves literally as they were going into middle school - because the education fell apart to test scores and money. Gen alpha is interested to learn but their curriculum is geared toward boredom and extremely outdated. My children’s teachers try, but when helping with homework I saw what they’re working on and it’s not even to the interest level of a 9-10 year old. They were reading a story about a 1950s penny auction (!?) and I was bored to tears myself.

My kid was born 2020 and I worry about it. I worry about this for his peers, because even if I do the best for my kid, it's going to suck when their friends don't get the same support. It isn't just about success of the individual but everyone together. I hope to do what my parents did for me, bring my friends with me on learning trips. My generation was mostly friends who were first generation Americans. Navigating this country is hard and just gets more complex each year.

Dead on, this is by design! No Child Left Behind and political correctness ('math is racist') is destroying the educational system

oh me and my sister are also gen z and we were raised like this, but my parents had one ipad for my dad, sister, and i we all had to be on it at the same time, that was when i was like ten years old though. we move a lot since its a military family, and one of the schools i was in had ipads. im not joking when i say the behavior of everyone there was horrible and they even bragged about having bad grades.. anyways, all i can say is i hope to have a parenting style like this someday 🙏 quality time will always be the best.

I’ve got a 4yo brother at home and with his limit on screen time (one show a day or so, if he’s behaving with a good attitude) and he’s already able to write his name and write simple sentences, and is significantly ahead of any of his preschool classmates. Then again, he’s got two parents and a college age sister who’s studied childhood psychology and development, so there is definitely some bias in the stats, but he’s energetic and curious and independent and *throughly* loved.

@WarpedKarma6471 Similar here, I found out that it doesn’t matter at what age you give a kid electronics. It matters that you still attend to the kid and don’t give electronics to the kid just to keep him away and not “bothering” you. When a parent gets their kid a phone or ipad solely to distract them and the parent doesn’t give them any attention, that’s when it truly becomes a problem. Since I myself had a mobile device early on to be able to call my parents when I’m out (in my country it’s the normal for kids to start going home alone even at second grade or so), just so my parents aren’t worried😅

I mean, it’s good that you are so invested in your kids, well-being and education - but it’s also unrealistic to try to shield them from the Internet. The Internet is a huge important tool for modern life. It’s how we use it as to whether it is good or bad. Not to mention, a lot of books are available for free online which I don’t see a whole lot of people mentioning

That's the conservative plan. End public education and make private schools too expensive for the commoners. This is late stage capitalism in full force

I went to a private religious school K-12 for this reason exactly. The public school I went to was horrible, and that was only kindergarten. I received accommodations because I'm autistic, and the school I was going to go to basically said "well he's doing fine, so he doesn't need his accommodations anymore!" and hand-waved any of my parents' concerns. Thank god they had enough financial resources available to send me to a private school, because the public school system does NOT care about the student, only how that student performs and how it affects the image of the school.

my friend worked in a private school recently, so this is all second hand information. also we're in europe. from her stories it isnt as dire as the examples in this video, but parents are definitely very entitled and refuse to hear about problems their kid is having.

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@@kellyjacobs4114 Nobody. It either happens or it doesn't.

To build on this, the mentality of selfishness is permeating through all the generations alive right now, including those who are old enough to know better. A not-insignificant factor in millennials not having children is that their own parents decided to say "eff them kids" and refuse to provide childcare - but they were perfectly happy to pawn us millennials off on Grandma and Grandpa when the need arose. So now the cost of childcare is skyrocketing and if you want a village to raise your child, you have to be able to pay for that too. It's madness.

Right because nothing in life ever changes once you have a kid. No one gets laid off, or sick, and the economy is exactly the same as the day they were born forever. Come on.

People don’t have time because the cost of living is incredibly high, these kids either get 30 minutes with their parent or food, if they would like to keep living in a house then the parent doesn’t have an extra 30 minutes, kids are expensive and some people don’t realise that, if teachers got over themselves and teach kids properly then there would be a lot less issues, and don’t crack a fit about me blaming teachers because I’ve seen it, I’ve experienced it first hand teachers refuse to do their basic job

@@Nikki_the_G 30 min…

@@lunadark6666 30 min…

@@yuckyfairy 30 minutes here, 30 minutes there, are we counting 30 minutes as a whole or is it 30 minutes per child, because if a teacher failed to teach the whole work in an hour then what’s an unqualified parent going to do. 30 minutes seems so small when that’s all you look at but that’s not what’s happening, kids normally sleep for 10-12 hours thats already 7am if that’s the time they wake up to go to school, they are then at school for 7-8 hours depending on the school, that’s already over half the day gone now the child has to come home, shower which could be 10-30 minutes, eat dinner which is another 30-60 minutes and let’s say they get home from school at 3pm that’s already brought the time to roughly 5pm that’s not counting any travel time so let’s add another hour thats 6pm now let’s say the kid goes to bed at 8pm thats 2 hours for the kid to sit down and relax but no let’s throw 30 minutes of more schoolwork with the parent oh look we are at 1 1/2 hours now let’s say the kid spends another 30 minutes on the rest of the homework for every subject they have that’s 1 hour. 1 hour in an entire day, this is only the child’s time this isn’t factoring the parents who have to cook the food, clean up after dinner, do any work they might have, do laundry, and literally anything else. So tell me again how it’s “just 30 minutes”

That's a pretty normal shake up. Your kid is doing fine, be sure to get that IEP and all that. I think kids on spec (diagnosed) are usually going to fair better because they end up with more school than non spec kids (Tutoring, Aba, extra services, etc)

My younger kid on spec just started Kindergarten, she was doing K level work all summer in Aba, so she says school is super easy

From a teacher/child of a teacher, thank you for doing so much for your son! He’s going to appreciate it so much! (if he doesn’t already but I know it took me awhile to appreciate my mom’s before school multiples and squares 😅😂)

Good luck to your kid, I'm sure he'll succeed ❤ I'm on the spectrum too and I have a degree now! :)

im neurodivergent too and my comprehension is complete ass even tho my actual vocabulary is really good so i feel i relate to this a bit :P i think we legit might be the same with the reading too as since the age of 3 ive been able to read stuff. my math cracked tho honestly i feel like if you really need to, get the guy an iep. he may need that

dude this comment made perfect sense. and honestly? i agree. so many students got fucked by the pandemic so we will literally have an entire 1/2 of gen alpha that cant comprehend for shit

I also agree with this! What's worse is that during the pandemic, my brother started 2nd grade and his teacher didn't bother to help him. He had issues with spelling (still does) and his teacher knew this, and CRITICIZED him instead of helping him! It still makes me upset. I was the one who helped him how to spell some words, meanwhile the teacher kept repeating the criticism.

This. I'm almost 12 and so many of my classmates can barely read and spell words with 6+ letters. The pandemic really messed things up for most of us (including me, though it mostly messed up my productivity). I love reading so much but now most of my class don't read simply because it's too hard for them and they see it as a chore.

Same, you can hear the passion in her voice .

Interesting point. If you know anything about developmental psychology that is actually a crucial time for the development of the Mind so it makes sense that that would mess you up going through that, at that age.

ok just wow. that edit text is smth ive seen happen in my school too. ppl just... dont care. one of my classmates literally has a 14 in global bc of it lmao

Some of my peers straight up NEVER read books in their spare time... it's horrifying.

To be fair, I’m almost 30 and kids where just as stupid when I was in grade school. :/

⁠@@ericaallisoncThat’s what I was going to say. This problem has been occurring for years, probably ever since students believed the idea that being smart made you a “nerd” and (apparently) lame. I had a family member telling me that, in their senior year of high school, there were students that had a sixth grade reading level. With this lack of education being ignored during the early 2000s, it’s no wonder it’s a huge issue now.

Damn, when I was 12 I wasn't even thinking in such terms if my classmates were reading or not. I focued on playing MMOs and GameBoy

i think there also grants a school can qualify for if their students have a certain GPA average? I kinda remember that but i haven't been in school in a long while.

@@aubreymorgan9763true but you have to have the personnel to apply and most are to overworked to take on this role also.

Exactly.

Most of these kids probably weren't even alive when 9/11 happened. They've just known the dysfunction afterward.

Wait, why would the parent have to attend parenting classes if the child acts the correct way?

@@flamingpaxtsci was gonna say that, they likely meant can’t

"Stop pushing kids to the next grade.": You do realize that teachers' hands are tied in this regard. We could be sued by the parents for not letting their kids pass, because we'd be breaking the law.

@@07Flash11MRC he never said it was on the teachers to try and do that

@@07Flash11MRC It's actually crazy, to hear how american schools are basicly becoming a daycare. When anywhere else in the world any teacher will hold the student back if the kid fails a certain amount of classes (or above that amount).

That's literally not true. Every single child who has been in the American public school system has read at least one book. Stop over exaggerating.

@@WiseWorld12 ._. The generation doesn't read due to not having the same necessity as previous generations and second of all. The content objectively is much worse. Schools pleaded for me to read fiction, but the fiction books they had were absolutely trash, but took a Japanese light novel for me to love reading and manga. I am now a dictionary collector thanks to that. It's about the content, what is useful, what isn't useful, men and women read different things. Most books are more tailored towards emotional dramas and well that isn't as action packed as a manga. The American public education system is absolute garbage compared to their international peers due to work ethic wise or simply parents not raising them for it. I love non-fiction or informative content and didn't blow my money on dictionaries from international regions. Curiosity and necessities dictate reading time to time.

@@WiseWorld12 If give the right materials, some will actually read. One of my gen Z coworkers wanted to learn German, and wasn't the best reader... Is now teaching themselves the vocab of german and will eventually get the grammar for it. It's about reading materials and providing sometimes. Curiosity is a necessity.

@@MaoRatto gen z and gen alpha have plenty necessity to read. Reading is a part of school and life. I love reading fiction because either gives me a chance to escape the trashy world around me and go to a fantastical perfect place. Generations before us see us as lazy and annoying because we don't have the same motivations as them. We are different than the other generations but that isn't a problem. Stop telling us we are the problem. We haven't done anything wrong but use the tools we have been given.

​@@MaoRatto but gen alpha don't have foundations to study or read!! They don't open a book to read whether it's a novel or a textbook this is truly tragic

The school should be able to teach a kid to read without the parents involvement, because a child with illiterate parents can still be taught and not be stuck in an illiterate caste. The school knows the correct methods and has years to do it correctly, with or without the parents.

You are 100% correct. Most books are in audio form at libraries. Using the book and following along with audio version still allows parents to read with their children. It shows them how important you the parent think reading is. So many resources now.

kids doing drugs has been going on for decades, we are just recently seeing a massive drop in grade averages, the cause is probably forced online schooling, schools not punishing kids and schools making classes easier and easier so more kids pass and the state gives them more money

@@newmoonwithface I know, but with the rise of social media and stuff, it's become easier to not only get access to drugs, but also see other people do drugs which can influence people to do or try them

@@Crow-xm5dx yeah but drug use in schools hasn't really changed that much, its something else causing the problem

@@Crow-xm5dx plus 90% of drugs used by kids is fairly light stuff like weed or vapes that is legal as a adult

@@newmoonwithface Its legal as an adult in some states. The state I reside in, weed is illegal. Also like you said, it's legal as an adult, not as a 13 year old

I hope you don't have to give up on having kids. It IS a big commitment, and parents who expect devices + schools to raise their kids are failing that. I don't think I'd have kids today unless I was in a stable marriage and we were willing and able to home school if necessary. I know that's a big responsibility, but in some places there is good support. Then you don't find yourself captive to a failing school district with no alternative.

I second this! I'm an adult now, but I still remember sitting at my desk wondering why this teacher chose their career, when they so clearly disliked children and the material they were teaching.

"High school" is two words.

*THIS!* I won't name the university, but I will say it is a Kansas state university renowned for their teaching program, even having a teacher's hall of fame. I can tell you with 100% percent certainty that their reputation is 100% horsesh*t. When a university teaching program has to hammer into their students' heads in every required course that it is illegal to sleep with their students, you know you're not getting served the cream of the crop. And don't get me started on the fact that I have tutored many of the recipients of that degree during their tenure at that university and can say that ChatGPT (and other tech of its ilk) should have been awarded the degree, not them.

I'm 28 and remember having classmates in middle school who just hated reading and struggled to get through a paragraph when reading for the class. I was reading at a 12th grade level in 5th grade, I had learned English the year prior. With that said, my kids have never had tablets and have restricted tv time and are adding 3 digit numbers mentally, multiplying and dividing. They're 6

i don’t know if you were in a really bad area in terms of funding or just attitude towards learning, but that’s not normal. I remember everyone but maybe one kid was easily reading chapter books by 6th grade. I was actually the first thanks to my grandma reading with me all the time as a child. I was reading at a 7th grade level in kindergarten. it really is all about having somebody at home. i work in a school now as a teachers aide and all the kids struggle to read, write, and most can’t tie their shoes. It is special ed but spelling, shoe tying, and reading is a problem for all the kids not just special ed. You can tell who has active parents

or allow program to be used by parents for same textbook.

Don't they use online textbooks usually? I feel like you can access that easily.

wait, they dont?

In my experience, my teachers put the textbooks online on Google Classroom

My school doesn’t allow that because carrying textbooks in backpacks are really heavy and cause back problems or worsen back problems due to how much students carry, especially the chromebooks in our backpacks.

yo you got dyscalculia? anyways yeah being a poc just automatically makes shit 10000x worse because apparently people think its ok to bully someone for... being black. like i dont understand that at all

@@tristantheoofer2 Yeah, dyscalculia sucks! And my school has very limited resources for it, so I’m even worse at math than I should be. I can’t imagine what it would be like for a POC

@@thiccecheese2282 i cant either as im probably literally the whitest person in my school but its probably terrible all around

​@@tristantheoofer2hey sorry if this is annoying but not all poc are black! Just a reminder from a south asian aka another poc

Oh just this! I have severe dyslexia and Audhd. I’m white(complicated due to the fact I’m a Louisiana Creole) and it might’ve just been because of the fact of the time period because this was in the early 2010s, but I remember, basically just being shoved in a small room in a library, with one halftime sped teacher for the entirety of the 10,000 population of the school. I was allowed to attend normal classes but every test every assignment I would be forced to go to the back of the library with one teacher the population of 30 disabled kids(there is most certainly more kids who were disabled, though we were the only ones who actually fit into the special program they had). And when I mean disabled, I don’t just any disabilities I mean from people in wheelchairs to kids with behavioural disorders. It only really got forced once. I moved out of my home state due to the fact I had an accent, and I spell phonetically and use a vernacular English. I can only imagine how hard it is for POC people because I will remember. I had to fight every tooth and nail and still barely got in. It also may be important to note that I was in Catholic school and my school was also linked to a huge child SA scandal. The simple answer of this is don’t say your kids to Catholic school. They won’t turn out OK.

We need way more history and science to be taught the amount of ignorance is insane and with the world is like his it is. and math needs to be taught because of 2nd education like college you can’t have college kids not understanding geometry

Im really offended that i literally agree with this! I feel like this what all school should do if they want us to be fully prepared in life or else we wouldn’t survive if lets say a disaster happens or like if we went out in the wilderness

Sewing is not a necessity but I agree with the rest

@doofuscawt sewing can be necessary. Say u have a rip on a favorite shirt or pants and u don't wanna spend money on new ones or can't afford too. Sewing can help that.

Sewing wouldnt be the biggest necessity out of all those though, in fact probably the least. There are also a lot more things a school can do with that money or they could just add a different class@@mysterygirl6305