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Are teens today worse and more annoying?
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Still not to discount the "it's generational" explanation, but I know a number of teachers who claim their students have gotten worse over the course of their teaching career.
I've been teaching for about a decade and a half and I don't buy that FWIW
Very fair. It may also be a regional thing.
I can very much imagine places getting poorer and shittier and the kids getting worse as a result. My friends middle school was an absolute zoo and the faculty had very little control over the place
I did sit in a couple of classes over the last decades and let me tell you my experience is that it is the teachers who are not woke or based who get more flak than before. If you are chauvinistic kids today will call you out for it and will often not accept your appeal to authority. That is good actually. My viewpoint is that from an inner city school.
Kids are communicating much more in the classroom and in a way that teachers can't control, this means that teachers are also out of the loop which some really dislike.
That said the amount of work teachers do increased and the controls they experience, too. But so did the hours that the students have to work. I do have to agree with that kids aren't giving older teachers as much credit as a couple decades ago. This might be related to less respect for old people, or that the teachers are less at it and/or a bit out of the loop. If you are older the noise does affect you more.
In my very limited experience, a lot of the teachers saying this are the younger ones who came in just before COVID.
There was a noticable uptick in feral behavior right after COVID, because kids forgot how to exist in public. To be fair, though, pretty much exactly the same thing happened to adults. It evened out pretty quickly, and everything seems pretty normal now. Average amount of feral, at least among kids. Certain segments of the adult population still have not recovered.
a lot of them never learned and are now poorly equipped 8th graders, I have a teacher friend and whew, its rough what they vent about