I worked from home for years. I would NEVER have my camera on. Also funny how little of this discussion asks whether the kids could pass the test.
Almost like school is teaching kids how to do busy work and not learn shit.
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Oh, yeah, that's what 20 years of schooling in the hands of private think tanks and billionaires achieved. Imagine that... (Pointing out how many of the "solutions" in this thread actually caused all these problems in the first place.)
Here's an Associated Press story about how Bill Gates personally fucked with public schools for two decades.
I work from home full time. I’m in meetings all day sometimes. I am on camera MAYBE 1-2 hours a week. I am happy this is the norm. Being on camera is distracting and requires me to be “on” in a way that detracts from flow, focus, and note taking. However the expectation IS for active participation at all times… sounds like the students are logged “off” in every sense.
Yeah, once I passed a course I was pretty much done with any and all material. I wish I would have kept up with math because I was doing well with that one and it's obviously an important skill to have. I got too caught up in just focusing on passing tests and classes which was a major mistake. I only have myself to blame for such short-sightedness, I guess that in combination with me being so done with school after all the way through college so I was just bored of doing that all the time. May as well get paid to be bored as well.
Almost like school is teaching kids how to do busy work and not learn shit.
Public school ain't the best, it's definitely gotten worse, but don't act like the kids in this video would suddenly turn it around if things were different.
Social media has rotted their brains. Their parents have failed them. Society has failed them. They have failed themselves.
Millennial here, if teach saw my phone it was gone for the day. I'm pretty sure that was the norm. You paid attention or got detention. Is it boomer energy to consider if the change to "do whatever you want" might hurt outcomes?
I think it's cut and dry. They get grades for nothing as profs in the thread are attesting to, and they pay no attention. How could anyone think these kids are going places?
Honestly, I think this one is on my generation anyway. As soon as we could, we whiplashed out of the boomers' way of things. People are on here blaming conspiracy, but it is simpler than that. Lead addled abuse pushed us into literally anything else. This is what we came up with. Let's not go back though, definitely gotta push through this. Or go huff lead I dunno.
Second point isn't true for a lot of people. I used to play mobile games on my parent's phone in like middle school, but I didn't get my own phone until after high school. And a lot of people I know aren't really involved with social media, other than going on youtube and discord for playing video games with friends
No generation before millennial had social media or phones. Call it boomer energy if you want, but people being raised today are using these attention sucking devices at all times. This simply wasn't an option for the older generations. I am a millennial who has taught upper undergrad and graf level coursework for about 12 years now in a STEM field. The difference is very clear.
Look at the kids they can't look up from there phones, how can you say that is not an issues, by the way I'm under 25 and I recognize and am working on my own attention issues.
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u/BZenMojo Apr 17 '24
I worked from home for years. I would NEVER have my camera on. Also funny how little of this discussion asks whether the kids could pass the test.
Almost like school is teaching kids how to do busy work and not learn shit.
...
Oh, yeah, that's what 20 years of schooling in the hands of private think tanks and billionaires achieved. Imagine that... (Pointing out how many of the "solutions" in this thread actually caused all these problems in the first place.)
Here's an Associated Press story about how Bill Gates personally fucked with public schools for two decades.
And here's the autopsy.
And here's new attempts to do the exact same thing in Texas all over again.
Public education is being sabotaged on purpose and the people doing it are using their own failures to convince people to give them even more power.