Teachers share how different students are in 2024 than when they first started teaching

The country is experiencing a major teacher burnout right now.

Teachers share how different students are in 2024 than when they first started teaching.

"Level of curiosity... [it's] almost non-existent today ," one teacher said.

"They've just... lost a huge developmentally appropriate part of their childhoods. It's going to have long-lasting societal repercussions".

"Their handwriting iscomically big, completely illegible, letters not formed correctly, not within lines/margins if it's on loose leaf paper - straight up looks like a 1st grader wrote it. And this [is] junior high... Sometimes I feel so frustrated at them not getting incredibly basic art concepts and techniques.

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