The Education System Has Failed Gen Alpha TERRIBLY...

In this video, we talk about the state of education for Gen Alpha and the youngest of Gen Z. Now knowing that the new Trump administration is looking to dismantle the Department of Education we're taking a look into how this will really effect young people in schools and the real damage this is going to cause for generations to come.

Timestamps:
0:00 intro
1:51 what's been going on
3:54 the current state of education for gen alpha
7:05 what does the department of education do?
9:07 the cabinet pick
10:10 school choice
13:15 trade school vs college
16:01 the effects of all this on gen alpha

#imurgency #genz #election2024 #genalpha

[jerlinej]

Our government is making it harder and harder to have kids. The increase in income inequality and the decrease in school funding, it’s like they’re asking for the birth rate to plummet.

[RamboQuell]

Not just school the parents also. Sitting on the couch scrolling while their child is on the floor looking at a tablet, no engagement with their kids at all.

[jayde]

I’m a 6th grade teacher, these kids have no empathy, they’re bullies they say the most evil and vile things to me. And I barely get my planning periods any more due to the national sub shortage, so I’m usually watching an absent teachers class

[Nonofyabidnessbih]

As a teacher and Gen Z’er myself, I can tell you, the problem with these kids today (well, the majority of them) is that they are teaching themselves life via technology and have no real context to anything. They don’t understand consequences because they are rarely disciplined at home, and can’t connect the dots of right and wrong themselves.

Many of them lack critical thinking skills and they have no real desire to learn anything because they can google it all. I gave my 8th grade history class a creative speech assignment from the perspective of an angry colonist who needs to start a rebellion against Britain. Some of these kids used A.I. and thought it would go unnoticed that their speech was talking about “Grassroots organizing to fight against economic and educational inequality using robust dialogue.” It was a speech set in Boston 1770. Really?

So they shortcut everything without really understanding why they are shortcutting anything. Upper Gen Z at least knew the end goal was college and a career. Lower Gen Z and Gen Alpha don’t gaf about any of that.

[nadiuhh]

my bf is an educator and its taking a huge toll on his mental health. the effects of the pandemic + social media has been absolutely catastrophic for public schools

[nai-tsga]

im 13, a lot of the kids are also really mean. they can be incredibly vile and they’re also just disrespectful: walking out, yelling, cursing at teachers, etc. it sucksss

[DaughterofDiogenes]

Also school f*cking sucks for literally everyone. No one likes being there anymore. I was actually teaching my 5th graders and my class was taken away and I was placed with the worst 1st graders in the building. I’ve never worked with 1st graders and I didn’t want to.
They wanted me to yell at the kids. They wanted me to punish them and write them up. They wanted the kids to sit silently in the class. My class was loud. We had so much fun. I had people coming into my class telling me that they’ve never seen fifth graders that engage in all the years that they’ve been teaching. And then they move me into first grade . I was told by other teachers in the building that they knew they had taken the worst first graders out of all the other first grade classes, and put them in my class. When I went to the principal and said I could not work with that grade because I felt like it was unsafe for them because I had no idea how to control these kids it was completely insane. I would have up to three adults in the classroom and we could not get these kids under control. She told me that there was no other position available for me meanwhile, my fifth grade class is sitting upstairs with a series of substitute teachers that is screaming and yelling at them and they’re no longer doing any English work. They took a licensed teacher from fifth grade who was loving the students and who the students loved out of the classroom and put a series of subs up there, this teachers are leaving the classroom

[crashb]

In ancient times, some slaves would get what would be called a “slaves education” where they would learn some practical skills such as knowledge of geometry so they could do tasks like building like their masters wanted. They specifically were NOT educated in philosophy and art because these slave masters specifically did not want to give the slave the intellectual framework that would allow them to escape and combat slavery (keep mind that being a slave in Ancient Greek or Roman times looked very different to the chattel slavery that many people of especially African descent would be put under many centuries later, it was still slavery nonetheless). This new education stuff seems rather similar. These rich bastards do not want the masses to have the intellectual ability to challenge the system which gives them so much power.

[TheBlackPanther]

Never have I ever felt more fearful and sad for a generation's future more than Gen Alpha. If they are already this bad with the lack of parenting and the brain rot from the Ipads, I can only imagine how much worse their education is going to be now that the Department of Education is going to be dismantled with unqualified people who have no idea what the hell they're even doing.

[Turbo_Waitress]

I was a teacher for ten years. It was exhausting then and I quit before the pandemic. When I started, they gave us a quote that 50% of new teachers burn out in five years. I’m sure that number is much higher now. I’m so worried for kids coming up now, as well as their overworked teachers. Late Gen-Z and Gen Alpha and beyond deserve so much better than all of this.

[lovely.little.poppet]

As an 8th grader, school is so disengaging, everything is online. Our notes, our books, our assignments, even our hall passes. People at my school are on their iPads during class, and I take advanced classes to be with kids that actually behave decently. My whole grade got iPads in kindergarten, and it’s scary to see kids walking in the hallways, necks bent, looking at iPads because they can’t spend two minutes away from them.

[WarpStarVR]

Hey, late Gen Z here (2008). Currently in my junior year of highschool, and at times it almost feels like as if I’m surrounded by 3rd graders all day. Nearly no one can read around me, and they’re all either neck bent over a screen, music in not listening to teachers, or trying to actively start fights with others for entertainment. Never have I seen a more violent and striking school zone. Not only that but we have had shooter threats.

I never feel safe here, the people within this building are as obnoxious, egotistical, and violence-prone as can be, and no one feels like they’re actually supposed to be in the grade they’re in. They’re not interested, snd their disruptive nature harms them, and it’s costing everyone in the long run

[Dancinginmyroom]

As a highschool student rn I can honestly say first hand nobody has common sense, critical thinking skills, and cant mentally function at all. Most of my teachers started off as industrial workers, got laid off and now they teach, so most dont care about the kids.

[EyelessAugust]

The older generations might be laughing at us right now, but they don’t seem to realize how this *will* come back around and swing at them when they’re in retirement homes with illiterate caregivers that lack empathy… 😬

[oc]

I teach at a very well off and high scored public school and we’ve recently had an influx of private school students and these children are way behind than their peers who began the public school education in Kindergarten

[espressh]

I'm 14, but my younger brother is Gen Alpha being 6 and he can't go anywhere without an iPad, always having tantrums, doesn't listen, and is always hitting people. Now don't get me wrong he is really smart for his age, and he is autistic, but that still doesn't excuse his behavior. I try talking to my parents about it but they don't listen to me.

[MiloR-no]

As a person from generation Z, who is only a couple months away from going into college I personally think that the education system was skewed from the beginning. Not just in education itself, but with the adults that they put into the school system, I cannot tell you how many adults me and my friends have witnessed mistreating students and how long it took for those adults to be taken out of the school system. The most recent staff member/teacher that was taken out of the school was a male teacher who was accused of sexually harassing and inappropriately touching a female student. This happened midway through the year, and the teacher would pop in and out of school and it was only until I came into my senior year that I learned that he was finally fired from Montgomery County, but was still allowed to go into work in other schools. There was a female teacher in my middle school, who sexually harassed a student and is still working in that same middle school. My current school has an allegedly racist, and power-hungry principal who refused to turn on the AC last year, even though the of the third floor was 80° and up and they were multiple students and teachers mainly hijabis asking for her to turn on the AC because they were near fainting. She never did.

There is so much stuff that is gone down in my school that either I or a friend is personally witnessed that has not been addressed or completely ignored. I could honestly create a podcast out of it.

[xstray]

I'm in 9th grade and most of the people in my class just walk out, scream in class, talk 3 seconds after the teacher tells them to be quiet or just fight in class its crazy out here

[AthenaBadassSenorita]

Hello! I am a gen alpha currently in the education system, and I would like to formally apologize for my peers. A lot are really despicable people, I have been being harassed and bullied since 2nd grade also I’m kinda scared because I want to learn. And I don’t want to be dumb. I hope these plans don’t go through

[marr]

My mother has been a 6th grade teacher for 29 years, she's retiring and moving on the kids are horrible, disrespectful and a lot of them are still reading on a 3rd grade level.