We work with high schoolers and have for over 25 years. My husband is a high school band director. This is absolutely completely true and getting worse each year. COVID really contributed to very rapid decline in mental health, and we’re only more seeing kids get just a tad better. Many parents aren’t willing to make the hard choices for their kids and turn off these devices. The kids are not ok and we as a society are doing nothing to fix it.
It IS nicer, but I’m just tired of seeing it everywhere. My wife is one of those people. Her phone scares me from all the spyware she has on it. It’s an iPhone, so I guess it’s a bit better? I don’t know.
In another lifetime I worked for an MSP that would perform network services for local industries. One of our customers, a lumber processing plant, needed ethernet drops for some fancy new controllers for their kilns. I count that job as one of the worst experiences in my career due to the heat alone. It was the middle of July, pulling 12 hour days next to giant furnaces in tin shacks. I probably lost 30 pounds in sweat alone on that job. I could wring out my shirt and jeans at the end of each day. It was absolute misery. I have no idea how the guys who actually worked there each day could do it
Heat is no joke, and I find it appalling that we have nothing in place to protect people from it
Seeing this, wouldn't anyone, who isn't part of the hard core of the POS base, get really PO'd and motivated to do all the poll work etc to push the GOPers out? This isn't a long term strategy, and it's coming from a minority of eligible voters. So wouldn't they likely lose in the long run? Not flexible enough to keep with the changing times; they make themselves irrelevant. SMH
I don’t think (sadly) they’ll lose all 3 but even losing just one would be, historically, a shock. Even a decent swing to Labour in BoJo’s seat would be a large concern to the Tories.
RICO charges are no joke & are generally not used unless it's a slam dunk case. This almost guarantees that someone that was conspiring with Trump has flipped on him.
"I may have mental health problems, but you also have mental health problems" does not...strike me as an argument against lessened social media use....
If the instructors were doing this, they'd need to be fired because they are not doing their job. If the students are doing this, well, you can't fire them from learning, so it needs to be handled at the source.
Would also be pretty neat if we gave the educational system perhaps a money, and the problem is probably exacerbated by all that future the students tangibly don't have. But a heavy increase in counseling won't make anyone listen. I vote for addressing both, both is good.
I also forsee a handful of court cases when parents inevitably make their kids' "non-minor" accounts because they just want to be left alone.
Unfortunately teachers don’t “have to deal with it”
When they get fed up they quit, and then random unqualified people get hired to fill the needs and they end up being the ones who don’t give a shit either way and spend their day on the phones.
You won’t get good teachers if the working conditions are shit, and students these days are the main problem creating the shitty working conditions.
I’d place my bet on administrative bloat hogging too many resources. Making teachers move on to more lucrative professions because teaching isn’t worth all the headaches it entails for what they are bringing home at the end of the day.
news
Active
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.