All of those novels about a dystopian future seem to be coming true.
Lucky he was not in Milwaukee Pubic System where teachers have been hospitalized by students.
My sister-in-law was pushed down the stairs by one of her students. She was advised not to make a police report. She did and the case was tried in court. The student received a short probation and a transfer to another school where he went on to terrorize other students and teachers.
Dumbing down people has always been part of the luciferian plan. Sheep are easy to control. Free thinking and stable people are not.
I feel so sad for what has been done to young people. Are many of them horrible? Yes they are. They are ruined. Then I think of some young folks I do know who are raised well who see a terrible future ahead. It is the fault of every American for allowing this damage to happen to our kids.
These schools need to be shut down and education out of government control. Won’t happen, will it?
If they aren’t killing them in the womb, they are killing them and making them slaves outside the womb.
Who is John Galt?
People walking away from teaching, because the field is a nightmare.
People walking away from medicine, because the field is a nightmare.
People walking away from the military, because the field is a nightmare.
Also, a lot of people are giving up on voting, because it's a joke.
Our society is in collapse and a lot of people don't even see it.
As a public-school teacher, I can wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed here. It is as bad as the OP has explained-—sometimes worse. Cultural rot is endemic in education in this day and age, sad as that is.
The Camp of the Saints.
A relative is in high school in Chapel Hill, NC, supposedly an upscale university town. She says many of the students are messed up.
Another relative, a long time teacher, helped a high school A-student, also a relative, with math homework. This teacher said the student’s knowledge of his subject matter was very shallow.
“no impulse control” Of course, many factors cause behavioral issues. But this one I believe is due to cannabis culture in urban “youth.” Adult stoners are usually easy going. But those who habitually use before the pre frontal cortex is fully developed (in early 20s and earlier in females) are prone to anger and bad decisions. When I moved to the big city, I met people who had been smoking pot since grade school. All had a sad life.
Daniel Moynihan sounded the alarm about the fatherless black families back when Lyndon Johnson was President and the Democrats were in power. The dangerous percentage was 24-25%.
Johnson started to move in the direction of correcting this legislatively but his Party rebelled with cries of,”Don’t blame the victim”. (Paul Ryan). This was in 1965.
Today the black percentage is 78%...but the white percentage is close to the warning of 25%. So instead of fixing the black problem we infected the white families.
The total of both is 50 million citizens living in fatherless worlds.
To me this is our main social problem and it shows in the schools.
My wife is a grade school teacher and is calling it quits. Even kindergartners are out of control. And the administration provides no support and when she disciplins a student she’s the one who is wrong. I wouldn’t last a week as a teacher but I’d sure put the fear of God in the students.
Mrs sjmjax is a high school English teacher. She could write an almost identical version of this experience. As well as another family member in public education. It’s worse than most adults or parents can imagine.
Retired at the end of last school year as a High School/Middle School Math teacher. Mostly felt like I was making a difference both scholastically and pastorally. However, I feared this would have been the year I would have to strike a child (due to all the reasons listed above).
I sympathize with her completely. However, the above sentence reveals another problem: the schools have stopped "tracking" students, so that everyone "feels" equal. The intellectually gifted kids are getting ignored, if not abused.
When there was tracking, those who have the aptitude or desire for college literacy would be in a separate class from those who are headed for trades or retail. Not that you don't need reading in the latter two; but you're less likely to need literature such as the examples she cited, i.e. Anna Karenina and equivalent.
Our public schools have become a failure factories churning out students who are barely literate, unable to write a coherent sentence, ignorant of basic science, know nothing of history or geopolitical and are filled with CRT, gender bending ideology and climate change cultism.