This Teacher Said That Students “Can’t Do Basic Things Anymore,” And LOTS Of Teachers Agree

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“Middle and high school principal here. A huge part of this decline is parents mistaking enabling behavior for advocacy. Every year, sixth-grade parents start toxic email campaigns after equally toxic WhatsApp group chats about issues like the length of passing periods or their ‘civil rights’ concerns behind requiring students to use their lockers instead of carrying a 40-pound backpack. This year, I had a parent demand a second, downstairs locker for her daughter so she would not have to carry all her materials between classes. When my dean made a schedule showing all the times the student could use her locker, the parent told me I was neglecting the development of the whole child by robbing her of socialization time. Another parent accused me of ‘giving her child scoliosis.'”

“When parents tell their kids they can be anything they want, while also saying they cannot handle a five-minute passing period or use a locker, it is a wild, contradictory stance. They are raising a generation of 35-year-old basement dwellers.”

—u/Extension-Pea542