I do think that it’s a genuinely difficult and complicated issue, from the perspective of “why are the kids behaving this way”. It’s a problem of parenting; a problem of how the parents were parented (basically: “my parents didn’t oversee my technology use and I turned out fine, so I’ll do the same”); and most significantly (in my opinion) a completely new technology landscape. Parents do need to get better at parenting, but that doesn’t let Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Google (especially YouTube), and ByteDance (TikTok) off the hook for algorithms that feed young impressionable people with abhorrent content solely because that is what makes their platforms the most money. Parents can and should be helping their children learn to avoid harmful content or restrict their access to said content, but they’re fighting against the tide as long as the platforms themselves want to feed that content to them.

One thing that’s less complicated is this: regardless of the underlying causes, teachers should not have to put up with abuse. Abusive students should be removed from the classroom, whether they’re abusing the teacher or other students. Their education is important and I understand why schools and education departments are hesitant to do this, but the physical and mental wellbeing of others should be more important.

1. you’re gonna get shitheads in every generation

2. The shithead scions set off the other teens who are in fact just teenagers and doing dumb rebellious teenaged shit. The former will pull up or end up on meth. The latter will look back and cringe.

Because news sites make money from clicks. They have negative incentive to save you the click, because the lower traffic would hurt their profits. Their entire business model is focused on getting clicks.

Come on. Why would anyone care about anything? Cos it’s human nature. We should care, especially in messed up times like these. How else are things going to get better?

“Unless someone like you cares an awful lot, nothing’s gonna get better, it’s not.”

Teachers should get paid way better so that people actually want the job. Otherwise we may as well leave the next generations education to big tech, and they have zero interest in anything but getting users hooked on content for their ad revenue, toxic or not… How messed up would that be?

Bad take. Is not teachers’ job to instill good morals in kids.

It also shouldn’t be in them to put up with abuse in the workplace, regardless of who’s the one delivering that abuse.

As a person who has a teacher in my direct family, I can tell you that it wouldn’t matter what preparation and training they are given.

Part of the reason is that they have zero ability to control the kids in the class because if they do, the parents will basically sue the school, rip into the teacher (Because little Jimmy is just their perfect angel and can do no wrong.), and you can do nothing to any child that speaks to you like that, in any way whatsoever.

The system is completely broken and the teachers just sit there and get abused from day to day to day. It’s been happening for years now.

I tell you what, next time some little teenage shit tells you you’re a “fat fucking cunt of a piece of shit” (for example, to mirror the linked article’s language), and tells you day to day to your face, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Let’s just see how well prepared you are.