I was listening to a podcast that mentioned the case of that teacher that got SHOT BY A 6 YEAR OLD (which...bro that s*** has been f***ing with me for a long time) and how he "boasted about shooting that b**** dead" which was details I did not know about.

In going down the rabbit hole in seeing her taking charges for neglect and claiming "she kept the gun in a trigger lock" which...I don't really buy. It made me think back to other recent stories of actual shooters like the racist guy from Buffalo.

He came across in his manifesto as a kid that was rapidly going down a problematic hole of radicalization while his parents were knowingly just neglectfully not there fostering any type of connections or bonds to keep their kid from being fathered by the internet.

Which brings me to my current question: Have parents gotten worse?

npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades

This article says that 13 year olds reading and math scores have dropped to an all time low. Which shocks thee hell out of me as someone who's father made it pretty mandatory as a kid that "you gon' be reading some books" to the point I became a bookworm lol. I wonder how many percentage of this new generation go to libraries

In seeing what a good portion of Zoomers are into these days I wonder have "new parents" in this age of tech and late stage capitalism (working multiple jobs to keep up in the rising price of living and genuinely not having enough time to even be a parent) just gotten too complacent and too lazy (if it dont apply let it fly) to care about being a parent and letting the internet do it?

I think your last paragraph summarizes it best. Due to people spending so much time away from their children to provide a living, it provides less time at home to be a parent. Not to mention some parents are incredibly lazy and treat teachers as babysitters, educators, and de facto parents because they have children but don’t want to step up and handle their duties. Other factors included or course such as the reliance of technology as a substitute for time spent nurturing. It’s a lot to unpack unfortunately and doesn’t seem like it’s l trending in a positive direction

Also I’m not here for anyone to blame teachers for lowering scores or kids acting out. Teachers are pushed to the absolute limit (I always have convos with my teacher friends) for virtually no compensation. Of course this is by design in the public education space but that’s an entirely separate convo we could go down

ktt2 life sxn thread without mentioning late stage capitalism challenge (impossible)

maybe it's a sign something is fundamentally wrong.

But go ahead and b****.

my dad was a teacher for 10+ years and quit mainly due to this.

Saw the kids getting worse and the wages not increasing and this was like...before 2015 lmao.

Makes you wonder why supreme court is so hellbent on forcing more parents that don't need to be parents.....into being parents.

Late stage ktt. Sad!

Like...my nigga the image of a SIX YEAR OLD bragging about shooting his teacher is mind boggling. I deal with 7-10 year olds during the school year daily and just thinking about that s*** gets me sad.

That lil' nigga is already broken and so far gone it might be already over for him before he even hit double digits.

We know why

pop. control duh

Teachers deal with way too much dawg.

Any dumbass can be a teacher, most teachers in america are dog s***.

Trying to ignore what reality is for majority of life sxn users challenge (easy)

People were always lazy parents, but internet wasn't so off sprung with so many accessible crazy figures and s*** when we grew up. I know plenty of people that hand their kids a phone or ipad because they don't wanna be bothered.

Kids are growing up playing GTA and watching bullshit or reenacting gang shootouts on roblox. My parents would've beat my ass if they caught me on GTA at 8

just speaking to the fraction of the problem, but there definitely is a negative stigma toward public school that ruins kids motivation to learn because they think the curriculum or class setup stinks. this stigma also doesn't really take hold i think until a student reaches HS and is exposed to the world, but HS is also the most important schooling process in terms of setting yourself up for the real world so.

Now I dont know what % of this is factual, as in how many public schools really do stink and how many are solid places to learn, but in absence of parents reinforcing that school is IMPORTANT even if it may not be the best system, kids can tend to take it as a joke/(not so much a joke as, could probably be seen as an act of protest more accurately) and potentially f*** themselves over for life.

again this is just a fraction of the problem im sure, and totally anecdotal based on people close to me who didnt do anything passed graduating HS, but i do think it is an issue nonetheless.

Thought this meant the Lowes home store for some reason I was like why them specifically

ktt user maxx makes post without giving MAGA vibes challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

Then be the change you want to see.

yeah op when I heard what the kid was saying I bumped the thread about it, absolutely insane behavior from a 6 year old

the kids is most definitely not okay and rly who else can u blame but the parents? idk man

My mom and sister are great teachers, I need to make money.

actually ppl have rly just been conspired against by other ppls

it's them I got a bone to pick wit

internet rewards all kinda stupid behaviors and thas where kids spend a majority of their downtime now

parents dunno what to do w their lil addicted children

Blaming the parents is what the child does. Hell, maybe the parent does as well. Other parents probably do.

Anyone interested in fixing these things has to address them on the sociological, economic levels.

I kinda did towards the end but high IQ thinkers like @maxx think thats not it