Despite performing one of the most important jobs in the world, teachers are often very underacknowledged and heavily undervalued. And yet, even with all that, there are people who choose this profession to try and make a difference.
However, lately, it seems that their job has become even more difficult than it used to be, and, as this TikToker shared, it is all because of how terribly most of the Gen Alpha kids are raised. Many children in today’s schools are acting in rude, aggressive, disrespectful, and defiant ways. Educators are lost and are looking for ways to solve this major issue . Scroll down to read the full story!
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Students of the Gen Alpha generation are wreaking havoc in schools, and teachers feel hopeless
“Young Gen Z teachers are talking about the poor behavior of Gen Alpha students”
“ And some of y’all are finally starting to believe us when it comes to how much we’ve missed the mark on raising these kids right. Because I have gray in my hair, and I’m 36 years old, people tend to tune me out as soon as I open my mouth when I start talking about these issues we’re seeing in the classroom with our kids these days. So before I go on, why don’t we review some of the evidence from some of the other creators on this app, who might be a little bit more of a relatable age.”
“This is my folder of crying teachers”
“A nd they are confused and frightened by the behavior of Gen Alpha . They’re saying Gen Alpha is defiant, aggressive, disrespectful, and rude.”
“Having to teach and work with you guys as children has been the most traumatic experience of my life”
“They don’t respect any authority. You ask them, ‘Can you stand at your designated spot?’ They’re telling you, ‘No’ and ‘Shut up.’ They’re throwing things at each other. They’re throwing things at other people, other classmates. You say, ‘Can everybody sit in their spot?’ ‘I don’t want to.’ ‘I’m not doing that.’ ‘You don’t get to tell me what to do.’ ‘You’re not my mom.’”
“I’m not even trying to be funny”
“B ut these kids are… I’m gonna just say this: I teach seventh grade—they are still performing on the fourth-grade level.”
“I’m a middle school teacher”
“ I’m also 22 years old. And I will tell you, by far, we are doomed. These kids do not care. I have kids, all they want to do all day long is get high, like…”
“I need to ask Millennials, why are your kids so awful?”
“And more importantly, why do you think it’s so funny? Your kids cannot read, they cannot write, they’re ill-mannered.”
“I’ve been trying to sound the alarm about Gen Alpha students and their poor behavior in their classrooms, as well as their literacy problems, since May of last year”
“ But because of my age and how I look, every time I make a video about these topics, I’ll get people that have never worked with kids or have never spent a day in the classroom as an educator give me lines like, ‘Well, you’re just old and jaded,’ ‘If you don’t like it, and you can’t handle it, quit and find another job,’ [and] ‘Kids have always been like this, nothing’s new in 2023.’”
“And then we’ve got the droves of people that are trying to blame it on COVID and trying to blame it on the lockdown, us not having any sympathy or empathy for students with special needs. Even though I never talk about those types of students. And I’m always talking about general population students and the fact that this is an overarching problem with every single kid, even the high achievers, even the ones that don’t need IEPs, even the ones that are highly socialized and have a lot of resources coming from home.”
“Teachers that have been in this for 1, 2, 3 years are seeing it, and they are talking about it. Teachers that are veterans, like me, that have been in the classroom for over a decade, or two or three, or nearing retirement, are also saying the same thing. Your children are missing the mark on discipline, they’re missing the mark on education standards, they’re missing the mark on literacy, they’re missing the mark on socialization.”
“We can blame it on COVID, we can blame it on iPads raising our kids, we can blame it on the fact that kids don’t socialize with each other enough, we can blame it on the economy and the fact that parents don’t have time to help their kids learn how to read or don’t have time to take their kids to the park anymore. You can blame it on all of those things, or we can blame it on none of those things. But it sounds like we’re starting to get into a consensus here amongst educators that we have a real problem.”
“And some of y’all need to stop making excuses. ‘You’re just blaming the kids.’ ‘You’re just so mean.’ No, we are not. The problem is that we have [is] this generation of parents that [don’t] want to take accountability for not doing what they need to do to raise kids that are self-sufficient, that are socialized, or kind. And no, it’s not the kid’s fault.”
“And why does it seem like teachers are the only ones that are talking about it?”
“ The people that are talking about it are the ones that work with the kids and not the ones that are raising the kids. Gen Alpha have been raised to believe that they are grown folks, that they can speak to whoever they want, however they want. That violence is the answer. Gen Alpha students are raised in a world that tells them that it’s okay to be as nihilistic and individualistic as possible, that they don’t have to care about anything or anyone, that they can speak to anybody however they want to speak to them, even though they’re only 10, 11 or 12 years old.”
“Most importantly, they are being conditioned to believe that they are immune to consequences, that there are no consequences to their poor behavior, to their rudeness, to their lack of care in completing tasks and doing well in school. They just don’t care.”
“Is this us demonizing kids for fun? No, it’s not. The people that are talking about this are genuinely concerned. We are frightened for these kids. And if you’re sitting back saying, ‘Oh my god, poor babies,’ ‘I wish you would just quit talking about them because you’re just being mean,’ and ‘It’s not even helpful because kids are just kids.’ You are doing absolutely a disservice to their future.”
“This is not just an old people complaining about young people problem anymore. Young people in Generation Z, young teachers who are seeing the same thing I’m seeing with my two eyeballs, are talking about the same thing. You can call it an old folks complaining about young folks thing, and, ‘Why are you demonizing millennial parents?’ ‘Why are you demonizing Gen Alpha kids?’ Or you can step back and look at it from our perspective and say, ‘Gee, I wonder why there’s so many people talking about the same thing. I wonder why there’s so many teachers that are concerned about the same thing.’”
“We cannot even begin to talk about solutions until we admit there’s a problem. Most of you, [who] are parents, because y’all are the ones that matter. I don’t even care about the ones who are just trolls and are sitting back, saying, ‘School doesn’t matter, yap, yap, yap, Mayor of Yap Ville, who cares?’ I don’t care about you either. I’m talking to parents. If you are not ready to admit that there’s a problem here, we cannot get anywhere near even talking about the solutions. We cannot raise a generation of kids that are this tuned out, that are this rude, that are this violent to each other, to adults, to people younger than them. We just can’t do it.”
Check out the full TikTok video below
@teresakayenewman Lets talk about Gen Alpha kids. Young teachers and Gen Z are recognizing their poor behavior and social/academic deficits… why are we still trying to pretend like this is not a problem we should discuss? #teacher ♬ original sound – Newman Music Academy
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