Kids these days...

[kyaddict_rivals308450]

I've taught K-12 over the last 20+ years. Currently teaching Pre-K - 5th.
Never have I worried so much about society.
This current Pre-K and K group is so low I can't describe them as anything other than feral.
My beliefs are that this is the first generation completely raised on a screen, by parents that also grew up on a screen.
There are intelligent normal kids, but they stick out as the exception.
Troubling...

 

[funKYcat75]

ferrell

 

[buckethead1978]

I bet these kids are home schooled

 

[Rebelfreedomeagle]

 

[kyaddict_rivals308450]

Good catch. I've been talked to texted...
Looking at a screen?

 

[Xception]

Good news op, we’re dying. By the time they wreck it, we’ll be long gone.

 

[CatOfDaVille]

Heavy screen use for kids where they all have a tablet is only a thing from the last 5 or so years, so I wouldn't say they're raised by parents who grew up on screens.

30 year olds grew up in the 90s and while there were TVs and video games, those things also existed in the 80s when I grew up, and I don't consider myself having grown up on screens.

That said, screen time for kids is a problem. I have a 10 and 7 year old, and it's a constant battle. They're addicted. My wife and I have an app on our phones called Screentime that connects to their devices so that we can set daily time limits, block apps, and regulate content. When their time is up for the day, it's like you took a crackhead's rock away. Addicts.

 

[VT/UK Rondo]

Spankings

 

[CastleRubric]

Homeschooled both daughters personally through Jr High - they're both in public HS here in Tucson now and - for US - that worked out perfectly

The methodology I used (home made and baselined against my state education requirements w/"emphasis areas" from my library) -- included qualitative end of year assessments on both students -- -not just to evaluate achievements vs objectives but to also monitor them as developing human beings and decide whether or not HS was still the right method for them year after year

The whole thing timed out well and they both have surplus credit going in as a FR and SO -

But WHATEVER. you're doing you really should assess whether or not your arrangements are still working each year -- things / people change and all that


PS: Carlos Groves - the fat UT player that punched Shaquille Oneal in the SEC tourney resulting in both receiving a one game suspension......helped UK dodge Shaq in the ,.......?? 1992 SEC Tourney?

 

[Pickle_Rick]

I tried to get my granddaughter interested in learning for learning sake. Would quote Marcus Aurelius, and the Dalai Lama to her. Right now I'm on a St. Augustine of Hippo kick. I might as well have talked to the wall. Her parents, were as toxic as the schools.

 

[FrankUnderwood]

I bet these kids are home schooled

Incorrect

 

[kyaddict_rivals308450]

In all seriousness. Did your school have a "crisis team"? Does your kid's?

I've worked at high schools and middle schools that had a resource officer. One off-duty or retired cop or a veteran that could physically take care of discipline issues, if needed, beyond what the principal could handle.

As a kid, I remember having one classroom in the building with a dozen or so special needs kids that remained mostly unseen and unheard.

Last year my school formed a crisis team because of behavior. I'm on it because I'm one of 5 males on staff and 3 of them are as old as dirt. We are trained on proper restraints and using phrases like "I'm just trying to keep you safe".

I get called out daily. Today I got called 5 times. It's been like this the entire first 2 months of the school year. I was trained last Christmas break. I had half a dozen situations from January to the end of the school year. This year, it's daily. It's been a week and a half since I've actually taught all my classes without a "crisis team" interruption.

For the life of me I can't figure out why it's increased so much this year. At times, there are 6-8 adults occupied by one student. I wonder who's helping the gifted ones?

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