Im sure this response was a long time coming, and honestly it sounds like a common teacher experience. We serve no one by encouraging this helplessness, and I will and continue to bear this in mind with my tribe. The world does not need more lazy and inept self-entitled folks!

It must be so hard for teachers as well as students. Yes some kids may have an underlying issue but seriously parents need to get on top of this and push their kids as well as teach their kids classroom manners. A teenage kid should be able to ask for a pencil and also know how to sharpen it.

It was never like that when I sent my kids to school but that could be because we never pampered to them. They were taught that we wouldn’t be around forever and they had to learn how to take care of themselves especially at school

From my sisters over 40 years of teaching – her experience from many many years ago to the current – “we live in a sad world, and it’s not getting better with eduction”.

Teaching high school kids certainly can be hard

To the parent comments – there are so, so many health issues that can cause this. You cant ignore it without investigating it.

This would really frustrate me! Not sure if it’s laziness or is this what the next generation is becoming?

My daughter is a school teacher and some of the stories she tells me are a real eye opener. The biggest issues at times happens to be the parents who feel their child is always in the right. Kids pick up on this and will act up knowing that Mummy and Daddy will stick up for him instead of supporting the teacher.

Yeah honestly I’ve been parent helper in a kindy class and they help themselves better than that if this is happening in highschool they’re just being lazy lol

Unfortunately this was happening when i was in school many many moons ago. Kids are lazy and will do what they can to get out of just about anything. There needs to be boundaries put in place and consequences for the students who continue to do this unless there is a good reason for it.

There have always been students like this regardless of the generation

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 13 Jun 2024 , 8:14 am

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  Yes I believe so too

When I went to school if you didn’t pass your year you stayed down. This doesn’t happen now because you lose your friendship group and it is embarrassing. Really!! Just hard luck. Students know they don’t have to work because they just keep going up the grades. I went to a Grade 10 assembly a few years ago and actually walked out. They were slovenly and really didn’t care a jot for what was going on. These are our future leaders – what a joke. I know why teachers are leaving in droves.

I’m noticing even with my daughter- she just doesn’t seem to be able to do simple things I could do at her age. She’s nothing like the kids in the article and I definitely try not to let her get away with it and fix things herself, but it’s definitely a problem with the next generation.

Its a whole new generation out there now. I feel for teachers with many of the students they have.

We as parents and teachers alike do have to teach our kids responsibility and ownership indeed

Perhaps a written list on the board at the front of the class could be done so all the kids in the class know if they don’t do their work on their own by themselves with their pencil that they have sharpened that they will not pass at the end of the year. No if, buts or maybes. Them’s the rules folks, and it is up to you to follow them.
I really pity teachers these days, they have to cope with so much that is not what they should be doing.

I cant even imagine the life of a teacher. It’s stressful and kids are a lot. Kudos to you.

Gee, what hope is there for their future??

Self reliance and problem solving is so important.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 12 Jun 2024 , 5:55 am

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  It needs to be taught at home and school and everywhere.

It is absolutely a problem, but sometimes when you try to force your kid to take responsibility… well, chaos and confusion.