@Goodie2shoes@eadu4@RtRN@Romary@Burnsite @SandySparkles
I agree with what you all posted in the other thread about the youth of today and so many challenges that have influenced
them.
I wanted to post on the other thread, but it has been shut down.
I raised five children and now have seven grandchildren and
eight great grand children.
I'm concerned about the futures of the young ones.
In addition to environmental changes and global warming, I'm concerned about the changes that I have seen in our society, the anger, disrepect and disregard for life.
I worked in public schools from1988 until 2020.
When violent video games became so popular and cable
brought so much violence to TV, I said we are going to see
a bad influence on school age children. They would become desensitized to violence. We have seen that come to pass.
On top of that, came the internet and that brought a lot of undesirable content to young people also. Now with just about
most of them with cell phones, they can have nonstop access to all that and to the platforms where there is bullying and so much unkindness, which is so easy for them, when they are not face to face.
We did see school shooters who talked about being influenced and addicted to violent video games.
In my own city, there have been high school, middle school and younger, turn to suicide.
Just today, in the Boston area, a girl was arrested and taken out of school for Tazing another girl. In another incident there were a group arrested for bullying and assaulting a student.
Finally after hearing about these incedents with bullying, it is starting to be taken seriously.
There are 30 schools in our city amd they have had programs
about bullying and trying to promote kindness and respect.
But that doesn't matter to a lot of them.
Of course there are a lot good students. But many of the home environments are not that nurturing. We had a lot of kids who were being brought up by grandparents. Many parents are not raising their children. We had a lot in foster homes.
Some students had parents in prison or with drug problems.
Most households today, need two parents working, to provide for their families.
From what I see, most of the young parents and not so young parents are addicted to their phones and don't give their children the attention that they need.
The children are given tablets at a pre school age and preteens have phones. They are not learning communication skills that are necessary to communicate face to face.
I have seen older teens who can barely communicate and my daughter has seen them at the engineering firm where she works. One told her that she has social anxiety and won't go to stores. She doesn't want to talk to people. Others , she says, just don't really know how to interact with people.
Empathy and respect seem to be vacant in many interactions.
Even TV programming for kids, shows wise-cracking, disrespectful kids and that is supposed to be funny.
These kind of shows, violent TVshows, Face Book , TikTok
and whatever they see on the internet, are where so many young people are learning to communicate So many parents are too busy or just can't be bothered to teach or nurture their children.
Sadly, two of my daughters are seeing that their grandchildren
not being raised in an attentive, nurturing way. They have had problems in school, with reading. They have no interest in reading. They have no joy in reading and I think that is happening to many, even adults.
Thank fully, one of my daughters is raising her two grand daughters. They prefer to be with her, than to be ignored by their mother. My daughter has her Master's and is Reading Specialist in one of our schools. She is helping the older girl with reading and she helps them with homework. Their mother never helped them.
What is happening on the internet or playing with video games seem more important to many, than learning something.
Teaching is not what is was even 20 years ago. There is so much disrespect in the classrooms. We would never hear students disrespect teachers or swear. Now, bad language is part of what we would hear daily, with students just walking down the halls, and that is in middle school.
These kids (and the girls were the worst) would even swear at the vice principal. When parents were called in, the parents
would come in with an attitude and blame the school and the teachers, for their kids bad behavior.
Long time teachers, saw how their students had changed over the years and how disprespectful students and their parents had become. They had a saying "Apple - tree". You knew why the kids were the way they were when you met the parents.
So many teachers, retired early. It is difficult to teach when you have to deal with one or two unruly students, who take away
from the rest of the class.
There is such a shortage of teachers. I think that the young ones have no interest in teaching.They know that it is not an easy job and they have seen how bad the kids can be
, and dealing with parents is even worse. We even a couple who physically fought with the school resource officer. We have had students taken out in handcuffs. A couple were girls.
There is just way too much anger and disrepect and no self control.
They thought of suspensions as a vacation, not a punishment.
A few were tossed out permanently. But state law and student legal rights, required that they be entitled to an education. So
the city had to pay for private tutors to teach them at home.
That kind of behavior was not common years ago.
Again, not all kids are disruptive or trouble in school , but it makes an unpleasant and difficult stituation, for teachers, other students and the administration.
Many parents, who can afford it, have been sending their children to private schools.
I'm so glad that I raised my children in the 70's - 80s.
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