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Apparently kids are really fucking stupid now (www.edweek.org)

posted 101 days ago by Mpetey123 101 days ago by Mpetey123 +39 / -0

Toileting and Tying Shoes: Young Students Increasingly Lack Basic Skills

National survey finds more students struggle with basic foundational skills.

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– PooperSnooperPrime 10 points 101 days ago +10 / -0

Certain behaviors and attitudes at home that accelerated during the pandemic may also contribute. Screen use by children of all ages of increased during the pandemic. Today, nearly 40% of 2-year-olds have their own tablets, and 75% of parents whose children use screen media do not impose limits, according to a 2025 national report by Common Sense Media.

Some experts say this hands-off approach aligns with permissive parenting styles.

Families that favor permissive parenting tend to prioritize their children’s immediate emotional well-being, let them make their own choices, and use discipline sparingly. In turn, children raised with permissive parenting may find classroom routines, rules, and overall expectations overwhelming or confusing.

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– covok48 11 points 101 days ago +11 / -0

Blacks & browns.

White kids can be trained.

Everyone else cannot.

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– WeedleTLiar 3 points 101 days ago +3 / -0

may find classroom routines, rules, and overall expectations overwhelming or confusing

Because they objectively are.

What are the hard rules that govern your child's classroom? What behavious is expected and how is it enforced? What is the grading criteria and how would a student go about disputing their marks?

The answer to all of these questions is: "whatever the individual teacher feels like that day".

I think the biggest outcome of Covid is not screen usage or permissive parenting, it's that parents saw their kids miss months of school and saw no noticeable decline in either educational progress or behaviour so they now know that the schools were doing nothing of value for their kids.

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– PooperSnooperPrime 1 point 100 days ago +1 / -0

How many school age kids do you know and are also able to assess their educational progress?

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