I mean the amount of teachers in America complaining that students of all ages, including teenagers are unable to read properly is probably something to be concerned about

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Kids today don’t know how to be bored. They don’t know how to entertain themselves. They grab the phone the moment they’re not being stimulated. I had to learn how to deal with boredom. They don’t have those skills.

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Kids today will self-diagnose mental health conditions to justify their difficulties in life.
Don't get me wrong, young people with legitimate mental health struggles affecting their lives do exist, but unless a medical professional evaluates you and makes a.diagnosis, I will take your #ActuallyAutistic TikTok with a grain of salt.
I also have a hard time believing that so many people from Gen Z have DID, it's an exceedingly rare diagnosis, so much so that there's even a debate among trained psychiatrists about it potentially not even being a real thing at all.

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They are worse in school - not just academically but behaviour-wise as well.

A teacher friend told me about how she is constantly getting s**t on by her classes. From how she described it, it sounds like outright bullying.

She basically said that they openly mock and laugh at her for everything she says or does. In her words ‘a running commentary of criticism’.

A school in a nearby town lost 18 teachers at Christmas, all quit from being sick of the abuse.

My year was considered awful when I was in school, but it was mainly refusal to do things, arguments, the usual.

Nowadays it’s less back-and-forth with students and teachers and more just a barrage of insults and threats.

After hearing that I really wonder how long teachers will last as a whole if something doesn’t change.

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Kids today are still suffering with the aftermath of lockdowns combined with the overexposure to certain badly regulated forms of social media(TikTok).

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Their social skills leave a lot to be desired.

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The kids today have victim mindset. They will over-react instead of accepting their fault and working on them if you try to criticise them.

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They seem to have a lot more anxiety than my generation. We were more relaxed. These kids have anxiety and crazy expectations.

No one played a sport year round for 20 hours a week when I was kid with few exceptions. These kids play constant sports and after school tutoring and need to do homework, get good grades, and be start athletics at the same time. Gen X didn’t give a s**t about any of that. We opted out.

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We are in our phones and devices too damn much to enjoy life WITH each other.

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They're overly anxious. Our brains were not fit to withstand criticism on a global scale (which social media offers) and children without yet a prefrontal cortex are stunting their mental health capacity. 

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Having worked at a university, younger people aren't very good expressing their needs. Whenver someone came to my office for something, I had to play with words to try decipher what they were trying to say in order to give them the help they needed.

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I really dont mean to sound like a boomer here, but instilling work ethic before adulthood is critical, and I think there's been a decline in that lately. Make sure kids are helping around the house, show them how to wrench on s**t, things like that.

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I feel like Gen Z is growing up in an era filled with rage bait more than there’s ever been in the past and public discourse is going to look wild when they’re in the 30s and 40s

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I saw a meme- 50 years ago car manuals showed you how to adjust the valves….today they warn you not to drink the contents of the battery. And every year I’m alive I understand why my grandparents were so crotchety.

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I have never seen such a failing in basic math and study skills. I’ve taught freshman in college who didn’t know how to do the simplest algebra possible and regularly failed open-book tests with the answers verbatim in the book. It hurts to grade.

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Can someone explain to me how come somebody incapable of basic maths (or reading, whatever) has passed their high school exams and/or college entrance exams? I mean, how do you get into college if you can't read properly?

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No child left behind. Some should be.

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Exactly right. Teachers are being forced to teach to a test instead of instilling critical thinking skills. Kids aren't being taught how to learn.

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This was my experience of teaching over 20 years ago. It's not that new.

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But, that was not implemented in the correct spirit of the program! The kids having the troubles were not identified, then grouped with kids having similar issues to discern a curriculum to bring them up to the level of their peers. Again, the parents got in the way because poor Tragedeigh was "singled out" and now is stigmatized and that's not fair! The "spirit" of the no child left behind was that those who had difficulty could be identified and then brought up to speed so that they weren't "left behind" and then give up in frustration, like so many urban kids do now. Schools were never funded to implement the program, and coupled with the pressure to herd them through so the numbers look good is what turned it into the $hitshow it is now.

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100% agree. Who cares about their self-esteem. We are not doing them any favors by advancing them without merit. They would be better served if they learned necessary skills.

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Bottom line - the parents refuse to accept that junior isn't perfect and schools don't want to deal with pissed-off parents suing the school because junior was held back.

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I can only speak for myself, but I failed every single math test. I passed, however, because I was going for extra help during my lunch period and after school, esp. before a test. I just couldn't grasp math at all. I couldn't get the problems started...once I was shown I could get the right answer. My teachers saw that i really was making an effort so they passed me.

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Capitalism. Universities are for profit. This hasn't changed either. We're just more aware of it. (Source: Both parents were college professors who habitually complained about how stupid my generation was. Uh, your generation is the one who taught us, so...)

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I really wonder this as well. I know that fewer colleges are using standardized testing in their admissions process, but I think the problem described above has been going on for longer than that.

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I was in modified education program that helps slower students have more time to do their work and do tests, and a chance to be taken out of a class for one on one tutoring. Passing grades were 55%, any lower and, yes, you have to repeat that course. I failed social studies one year, along with a few others. We just took the course in High School. Since History is an elective by Grade 12, it's not a big deal to take Grade 11 History and still be able to graduate. College in Canada is what Americans would refer to as Trade School, or Community College. It's cheaper, easier to gain requirements to enrol and much of the prep work is done in school. Like, if I wanted to go into Graphic Arts and Design in college, I would be taking those courses as electives in High School. If you're in a modified program it would make it harder to go to college, but college isn't do or die. Now, if you want to go to University, then you have to keep up excellent grades and take advanced courses.

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Im sorry, but in many cases this is completly inaccurate. In the Area I live in (I am Gen Z, still in Grade school) The amount of preassure for good grades is INSANE. In my math alone, multiple kids have had panic attacks before or after tests, because of parental expections, or preasure put on ourselves. In my area, its the norm to be taking as many advanced classes and activitys as possible in order to get into college. We have alot of fear for the future, because in this day in age, college is expensive, and we all want scholarships. So its not that we can't do it, its that there are new standards.

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I think I’m more disturbed that American kids don’t know basic civics in this country. If you have no idea how the government actually works, and what the Constitution says are civil rights, you’re going to elect morons.

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I've been hearing this complaint since I was in school, 3 decades ago.

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I kept almost failing from math too because I wasn't interested and I hate math. But I always made sure I would pass somehow so I really forced myself to do the work. It felt like hell.

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When everything you're taught focuses on passing a state test (often a bad one), you learn how to pass that test - not to understand that subject now or in the future.

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I never understood or did algebra, it’s never affected my quality of living and it’s never come up, why do we teach kids algebra anyways 😂 seriously, educated my arty farty a**e

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You are part of the problem if you are giving open book tests with the answers.

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Schools have been going full on communist as the decades go by. Look at the communist manifesto. You'll see the corrupt government has been following that very closely...schools are up towards the top of the list...and destroying familes as well - both checked off decades ago

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They need to stop f*****g disrupting foot traffic in public places to film themselves badly dancing to loud awful music on tiktok. Especially here in nyc. We've got rules man, don't block the f*****g sidewalk.

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Kids today have subpar typing skills compared to the generation that grew up with physical keyboards

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Less emotional maturity and lack of ability to cope under pressure

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Around 2012-13, I spent a year working as an online tutor for essay writing. I had several students and graduate students from a well-known Christian university that had very low enrollment criteria.

I had undergraduates who couldn't form a complete sentence, who totally lacked any knowledge of proper English grammar and punctuation, and who couldn't tell me what the verb was in their introductory sentence. And yet, I was expected to tutor them in their writing skills in a very short period of time.

Their college had purchased a subscription for all of their students, and so avoided having an on-site writing center for students who struggled.

I had one essay I long remembered: a doctoral student's dissertation was given to me to review, and the student's "research" involved a Survey Monkey survey with 10 questions, that all of 10 people answered. ALL of her conclusions were reached from "interpreting" her survey results. The *only* source of information she used other than her survey results was the Bible. Really.

And it was only 5 pages long. FIVE PAGES!! For a doctoral dissertation!! Liberty University. Never hire someone from there.

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The ability to troubleshoot things. I've noticed this to be an increasing trend. If something isn't working, they don't appear to know how to find the answer. They grasp things quickly but I expected them to be able to solve things more easily. It seems to be going the other direction.

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I work at ulta and I also know that sephora has this issue too. Kids (specifically preteen girls) today are actively using retinol. Using retinol at such a young age (the only exception is prescription-use) will damage their skin barriers.

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They aren't as sociable they used to be. When I was a kid, going to the neighbors house to wrestle in the backyard was common, now kids are much happier just sitting at home playing a game.

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10 year old girls asking Santa for expensive skincare with active ingredients which should not be used by anyone under 25 or so, and literal kids flocking to Sephora and destroying samples.

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*some* kids today have a very limited attention span and can barely read despite being high school graduates. One of my kids’ friends is like this. A sweet person but basically consumes a media diet of YouTube shorts. She doesn’t read anything ever. When she talks she sounds like she’s speaking Newspeak from 1984. Instead of saying “this is delicious”. She might say “this is so so good.”.

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One of rhe odd things about "the kids today" which I think will be important to look at in the future, is that kids today are consuming content made by Kids. That's never happened before. But a lot of the youtube channels tiktok accounts, etc. That they look at, are made by kids the same age as them.

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I think Gen Z are very progressive when it comes to things like LGBTQ, disabilities and neurodiversity, but they have a big issue with ageism.


It feels like a pathological need to be young and a big fear about getting older.

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The kids today need to stop putting Botox and fillers into their faces before they've even finished developing their frontal lobes.

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Sidewalk and hallway etiquette. Walking 2-3 abreast as others come toward them. I'm not going to walk in the street so you can hear what Aiden is saying. Move over or be moved over.

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The non-existence of media literacy. The amount of misinformation that is easily spreading on social media is scary. Especially when it comes to stuff like basic biology..

Edit: after gaining some new perspectives on this from the comments I’ve come to the conclusion that maybe this is more of a me problem since I’m so sceptic so I tend to double-triple check facts I see on the internet 🤔

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A new meta-analysis with studies from mainly Western countries just showed, that kids overestimate their own abilities more than before.

I haven't read it yet, because I just saw it yesterday, but it proves the research by the American psychologist Jean Twenge showing that Americans are getting more narcissistic. It's just happening everywhere in the developed world, and the trend began way before social media. I believe wealth is the cause.

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Basically that their parents failed them.

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A lot of kids nowadays don't think they have to take responsibility for their actions. If anything, they think it's hilarious and post it to YouTube and TikTok as a "challenge" . For example, the enormous rash of Kia and Hyundai break-ins, thanks to kids finding out how easy it is to break in.

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Knowing professional phone etiquette... Or how to talk on the phone period

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The real problem is the insane way they make a heart with their fingers…

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Speak in meme phrases instead of actually communicating.

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Their small talk skills are next to nothing

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