What's Happening to Students?

A frustrated teacher recently took to social media with a desperate warning: You guys don’t know what’s going on in education right now. That’s fine—how could you know unless you were working in it? But I think that you need to know…. First of all the kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever. They live on their phones. And they’re just fed a constant stream of dopamine from the minute their eyes wake up in the morning until they go to sleep at night. Because they are in a constant state of dopamine withdrawal at school, they behave like addicts. They’re super emotional. The smallest things set them off. When you are standing in front of them trying to teach, they’re vacant. They have no ability to tune in…. They’re not there. And they have a level of apathy that I’ve never seen before in my whole career. Punishments don’t work because they don’t care about them. They don’t care about grades. They don’t care about college. They just care about the next fix—because that’s how addict ... Read full article.