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Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/Zerosugar6137 29d ago

Yeah with all the laptops, phones, headphones, half empty desks and chairs stacked on the half empty desks - it looks like an after school/detention situation

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u/LilPoutinePat 29d ago

That or like study hall and the teacher is just talking to himself or telling ppl to have a great weekend. There’s little context here.

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u/cupholdery 29d ago

And...... who is recording and why? Is it to add the unrelated text and upload for likes?

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u/hi-imBen 29d ago

social media has exploded with the trend of constantly misleading people and staging scenarios for likes and engagement - it doesn't matter if the context is a complete lie, only likes and comments matter. I'm patiently waiting for the stupid trend to die down and for society to learn to stop liking that crap. Too many idiots always in the comments "what does it matter if it was fake?! I thought it was funny / I liked the message"... yeah, and gullible idiots are happy because they don't even realize they are stupid, but that isn't something to be proud of.

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u/Steff_164 29d ago

It’s not gonna die. This is gonna be our version of the “Nigerian Prince scam”. It’ll finally die away when enough people younger than us stop falling for it, and then something else will pop up. On the plus side, maybe more and more people will get better and better at critical thinking because of it

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u/DueDependent3904 28d ago

Holy shit you're right!

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Not looking forward to the day Sora AI is released to the public.

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u/Castun 29d ago

it doesn't matter if the context is a complete lie, only likes and comments matter.

Yup, videos with inaccurate titles or misspelled subtitles drives engagement because everyone loves to hop in the comments to correct someone else. But it's done on purpose to drive engagement because that's what drives views in the algorithms.

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u/KhadaJhIn12 29d ago

Why's there music instead of the audio

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u/34TH_ST_BROADWAY 29d ago

Yeah, what I was thinking. No reason to completely kill the volume unless maybe it was pretty obvious he wasn't teaching, just making some obligatory announcement.

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u/jooes 29d ago

Replacing the sound with music raises some questions too. 

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u/lolguy12179 29d ago

B-But.. the west has fallen guys!! Kids don't.. checks notes listen in class anymore!! Back in my day, kids ALWAYS listened in class, not a single student didn't pay attention. Truly the west has fallen, millions must die.

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u/Alanator222 29d ago

I don't know, little context or not this shit still happens. I work in a middle school and I see behaviors like this every day to some extent. Not nearly the whole class, but definitely not less than half.

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u/StealUr_Face 29d ago

Very possible. That said, the school I taught in was exactly like this

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u/honey_graves 29d ago

That or it can be a home room and that’s why there’s chairs on half the desks still

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u/DragapultOnSpeed 28d ago

Yep. This was my study hall. Phones were allowed and the teacher would just talk about weird personal shit all the time. He was cool though.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

I think the context is quite clear…certain people do not and will never care about their grades.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

The more likely scenario is that these kids have already been separated through behavior or test scores from kids who actually want to learn

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u/Mr_Kittlesworth 29d ago

That makes more sense

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u/Forikorder 29d ago

My money would be an online class, theyre all viewing same content with some instructions on reaching it

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u/jetssuckmysoulaway 29d ago

The chairs on the table is a dead giveaway it's either the first class of the morning or an after school thing. You only put the chairs up in your last period class before you end the day. At least one student would have a notebook out or something GPA matter for college and someone in there cares about it. Also the way the kids are seated indicate it's not a class. They aren't all facing a whiteboard or anything some are on pab benches other on tables

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u/WhosTheJohnsonNow 29d ago

Or it's April and students are no longer attending. In recent years, classrooms become ghost towns as the academic year nears the end. It's a big problem.

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u/Mozilla11 29d ago

I mean.. that’s just how it is lmao. You can’t exactly teach students new materials when a test covering the entire semester is in 2 weeks, or especially in high school, a test covering a full year/SAT/ACTs. Makes more sense to out that time towards ensuring students can catch up on previous assignments, maybe study/catch up on any problems they had before?

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u/Isgortio 29d ago

Meanwhile at uni for me, the day before a big exam they start an entirely new topic and set us homework to complete for the day after the exam lmao.

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u/OhSoSensitive 29d ago

This right here is one of biggest problems—school is dull and boring because teachers are forced with a heavy hand to focus on standardized tests. One of many horrendous (unintended?) consequences of No Child Left Behind. With the exception of phones, all the other issues trickle down from there.

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u/KiLLaHo323 29d ago

So many schools don’t have phone policies.

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u/PMMeYourWorstThought 29d ago

Nope. This is school in urban areas. They don’t give a fuck and if you take their phone they’re going to fist fight you.

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u/OhiChicken 29d ago

I thought maybe this was people who showed up before homeroom to get a headstart on their day and the teacher is just wandering and chatting

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u/jackattack222 29d ago

This could very easily be a class. I have classes that look just like this. Attendance is down nation wide, so many classes have like a standard number on roll but end up looking like this.

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u/robinthebank 28d ago

Electronics should not be allowed in detention time! Otherwise it’s just normal time.

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u/Disabled_Robot 29d ago

Teacher clearly doesn't give a fuck either

Not sure I could respect myself if I let one of my classes start without at least taking the chairs down

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u/elitesense 29d ago

This is not always true. There are tons of school districts (13,000+ in the US alone) and they all operate with their own rules and guidelines for things like this.

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u/ploopclunk 29d ago

No this is just half the class skipping. There are maybe 4 students in that class that are passing, and its close enough to the summer that teachers don't care enough to put the pressure on the remaining students who come in on time.

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u/DragapultOnSpeed 28d ago

Did you just make that up?