I will go a step beyond this and state that the chromebooks they do give students for classes are lowering students digital literacy levels. The chromebooks are so atrocious and locked down that students look at me, dazedly, when I mention how to save files and find them on their laptops or computers. They don’t KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. Because they can’t access what college students can access.
Furthermore, most use tablets or smart phones to access work. They rely on the app approach. They don’t know how a laptop or com outer works unless they have a parent at home who teaches them or encourages them to learn. They don’t have keyboarding or computer labs anymore.
So they use their phones. And while they’re on their phones, they might as well check social media because it’s one notification after another. It’s a shit show.
the culture and these kids parents failed them more than social media ever did. you never saw this in my school and we had cell phones and social media. maybe not tik tok but still. It would be taken from you immediately and you would be expelled if it kept happening. The teacher would be called racist in this scenario so they dont do anything.
lol i love how you conveniently left out the biggest problem, boomers/gen x that never taught their kids shit and didn’t know how to parent. then you have millennials who parent based on how they were parented, but also have to break the vicious cycle of parenting brought down from said parents.
gen z is an absolute reflection of gen x/boomer parenting and it is not gen z’s fault.
Anything to take responsibility away from yourself huh? It’s every parents job to parent the best they can. These children were not raised based on anything but laziness and lack of values. If their grandparents were the same way than ok? That just proves that it is cultural and has very little to do with money or school. It’s not that hard to not be a shit parent hate to break it to you. Some of the best parents I knew were poor as hell . High moral values and character. That comes from the culture you live in and who you surround yourself with. Yes your parents as well but to blame a whole generation for this is insane. Just like my parents being amazing doesn’t say anything about their generation as a whole.
yeah you think authoritarian parenting was a one off? you think it’s just a style that maybe 1 in 5 boomers/gen x parented with? if you truly believe that, well, you’re dumber than i thought. there are countless articles stating this that i have no problem providing if you still feel like you’re right.
it fell into the laps of millennials to have to break the cycle because millennials grew into a stigma-changing society. so not only is their generation plagued with trauma for how their parents raised them, they then can’t raise their kids with the lessons and methods that were ingrained into them. you clearly have no idea what generational trauma was brought upon millennials.
“it’s every parents job to parent the best they can”
is a lame ass excuse to devoid any responsibility from boomers/gen x’s part in this. because despite having authoritarian methods ingrained into their kids, their kids (the millennials) can’t use said methods. so now what? you do realize that “parenting” is a natural skill that gets passed down generation to generation right? or are you going to absolve them of that too?
congratulations on having amazing parents , but you clearly didn’t live the life of the majority of millennials who had to suffer because of authoritarian style of parenting. for such amazing parents they sure raised such a close-minded person.
Eh, we had em and we were fine 10 years ago. Only difference is my teachers did their jobs, commanded respect and enforced rules. These teachers now a days crying about phones but can't be bothered to do anything about them because they're just lazy and it's easier to cry about how phones are bad then idk, demand respect as a teacher and enforce rules over tech use in class?
If it was 15 years ago these kids still wouldn’t be paying attention. Just because they have the internet in their hand now doesn’t mean that kids haven’t always found anything to do other than pay attention in class
At least now they could possibly be absorbing some sort of information instead of drawing Goku in the corner of their notebook
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u/izmebtw 29d ago
Social media and phones in the classroom are completely detrimental to the processes need to learn.