I do not know how to teach kids this low

xvxvx

I know many people who work in education, at different levels of different schools, and they have nothing but horror stories to tell. School is now just glorified babysitting and stopping kids from either overdosing, getting pregnant, or committing suicide. Teachers and faculty spend so most of their time on harm reduction that teaching is almost non-existent.

panny

Hey, at least your six year old elementary student hasn't shot you yet... School budgets are perhaps a little thin, but at least you're not struggling to pay out a $10 million lawsuit. So you've got that going for you. https://people.com/newly-released-bodycam-footage-shows-the-...

GenerocUsername

I always wonder what the commonality is across these poor performers. Is it all kids? Kids from home without fathers? Kids from particular areas? Seems like as a society we continue to slip but cannot identify solid commonalities... It's amongst the most important issue in modern society and article after article just cannot find any solution or underlying reasons. Society doesn't just devolve for no reason. What could it be?

royal__

Someone posts something like this here every so often. This subreddit is unsurprisingly full of this stuff. While we shouldn't discount the current state of education, I am also deeply skeptical of how representative this is of the broader system.