It started with my generation, Gen X, my parents and many others were either completely uncaring or helicopter parents, we were the original latch-key kids. Come home, no one around, just us and maybe siblings, we were unsupervised. This raised kids to think they could do the same thing, but as Gen X we did it worse. And each generation keeps getting worse and worse.
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A 50+ word message is like kryptonite to gen alpha. There’s an adverse reaction to *printouts* now, things that used to be treated like putting one foot in front of the other.
>Reading and mathematics are now at their lowest OECD averages since PISA began, while science has proved markedly more resilient.
The 20th century had dogshit science classes, I think one of my teachers was high on the job. Before we reached the point in our schooling *of having full time science teachers* we were lucky to get a few hours per year and that teaching was just *copy the definitions.* **Maintaining a low position is easier than maintaining a high one.**
>If one looks at the European results, it is hard to find anything that gives reason for optimism. Latvia lost 45 reading points since 2022, Malta 31, Denmark 29, Slovenia 24, Spain 23, while [Hungary](https://www.hungarianconservative.com/tags/hungary/) and Sweden both lost 21. Hungary’s 452-point reading result is its worst in PISA history; Spain’s results are among its weakest ever. Yet this is not a specifically European problem.
The smartphone era had virtually infinite teaching potential, but it also had virtually infinite distraction potential and kids go to the distractions instead of the teaching. Parents weren’t supposed to just hand their newborns a youtube machine and wish them the best of luck.
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It started with my generation, Gen X, my parents and many others were either completely uncaring or helicopter parents, we were the original latch-key kids. Come home, no one around, just us and maybe siblings, we were unsupervised. This raised kids to think they could do the same thing, but as Gen X we did it worse. And each generation keeps getting worse and worse.
A 50+ word message is like kryptonite to gen alpha. There’s an adverse reaction to *printouts* now, things that used to be treated like putting one foot in front of the other.
>Reading and mathematics are now at their lowest OECD averages since PISA began, while science has proved markedly more resilient.
The 20th century had dogshit science classes, I think one of my teachers was high on the job. Before we reached the point in our schooling *of having full time science teachers* we were lucky to get a few hours per year and that teaching was just *copy the definitions.* **Maintaining a low position is easier than maintaining a high one.**
>If one looks at the European results, it is hard to find anything that gives reason for optimism. Latvia lost 45 reading points since 2022, Malta 31, Denmark 29, Slovenia 24, Spain 23, while [Hungary](https://www.hungarianconservative.com/tags/hungary/) and Sweden both lost 21. Hungary’s 452-point reading result is its worst in PISA history; Spain’s results are among its weakest ever. Yet this is not a specifically European problem.
The smartphone era had virtually infinite teaching potential, but it also had virtually infinite distraction potential and kids go to the distractions instead of the teaching. Parents weren’t supposed to just hand their newborns a youtube machine and wish them the best of luck.