Education Crisis

Teachers - What do you think is causing this education crisis?? I am not in education, but many of my close friends are! I have family friends as well who have taught for 20+ years and everyone is leaving in droves!!! For many reasons im sure. The pay is awful, the students are becoming uncontrollable, also the risk of just being shot in a school here is a high possibility.

Something I am gathering is that these kids for some reason dont know how to write a full sentence, can barely read, and dont have many critical thinking skills. I think a heavy part is social media, however, reading and typing is a HUGE part of social media (commenting/texting/DMing/reading comments/reading basic captions on posts). I think “No kid left behind” has completely screwed us. The thought of being held back used to scare the hell out of me throughout my WHOLE school career. And i grew up with early early social media introductions. My coworker will bring in the math homework her 6th grader has and when i tell you it’s LITERALLY just coloring in patterns. No math equations, no +,-,x, or division.

As a 24 year old Gen Z in an alright public school, my peers and I in 2nd grade were reading at a 5th grade + reading level, we could draft and write a 5 paragraph essay in 45 minutes, cursive was highly encouraged but kinda fell off, we still had to be able to read it.

How have we regressed so bad? How do we fix it? Even if you arent a student/teacher, you should be extremely ALARMED!! These are our children we are failing. These are our future doctors, nurses, lawyers, salesmen, TEACHERS, policemen/women. I dont want to be under the knife of a doctor who couldn’t read till he was in high school.

(DISCLAIMER!!!!): I understand there are kids who dont have the resources to further their education and are at a disadvantage, this is not directed towards these students!! I hear that there are very privileged students who just dont apply themselves!!

Submitted October 26, 2024 at 08:20AM by Akatkenn https://ift.tt/2McuQIK