Kids raised on an early, steady diet of TV and gaming are bound to get bored quickly in a classroom environment
Surprisingly, much of the classroom has been reduced to staring at technology, predesigned worksheets and other programmed activity. That bores them
I'd go back to textbooks, the basics, and lots more art, music, phys ed, drama, other creative outlets. Too much now, the classroom is group pre-programmed activities and not individual accomplishment. It's often a less glitzy form of the technology they're absorbed in at home, so they often zone out and go through the motions...or misbehave and get diagnosed with ADHD.
Sesame Street. With the subject changing every 30 seconds.
They killed recesses to save insurance costs! That’s a major contributor to ‘ADHD’. When I was a kid we had a minimum of two recesses a day. A 30 min. at 10:30 and a 45 min. at 12:30 after lunch. They were unsupervised on open playgrounds with large asphalt areas, swings and what not. Kids would check out balls, bats, etc. to play during recess. Kickball, baseball, hide and seek, tag, races, etc. were all handled by the kids. One teacher was assigned to watch over the kids, basically, to minimize blood loss.
Now my son laments to me how he doesn’t have recess and school is ‘just for girls’. He’s right. They’ve done away with what boys, and girls too need. Vigorous exercise and free-association gaming.