I feel bad for the current generation of students. During COVID, doing anything at all was full points since teachers couldn't know what support they had at home.

Now AI produces good-looking work w/o the struggle to learn and teachers can't always tell.

Result: students don't believe they can.

April 11, 2026 - 12:04 UTC

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2/ We also took away socio-emotional learning in grade school as being too "woke" (whatever that means in this context). That curriculum promoted, among other things, resilience.

We are in the process of losing an entire generation, and I don't know how to fix it.
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3/ I see many people wanting to blame the students. IMO, that's wrong.

They have all the developmental tasks of young adulthood, plus all the catch-up of everything they are missing. Plus, we convinced ourselves that the world was super threatening, so they have learned to communicate on devices.
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AI should've outlawed in school elementary and high school. Maybe college for projects...
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I question why everything had to be full points under COVID.

It sounds like our educators are just really bad at adapting to change of any kind.
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The elephant in the room is the fact that they're constantly exposed to a virus known to cause cognitive impairment, loss of ability to focus, word finding problems etc, AND constantly gaslit by systems that care more about hiding the problem than their health.

How can they trust anyone after that?
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I think personal phones are a huge culprit. The tech is addictive. Am so glad I spent those developmental years without it. We used to drive on long trips, visit other countries, backpack in wilderness being out of communications for days/weeks. You had to have skills and engage others.
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Plenty of teachers gave legitimate grades during Covid, and not full points automatically. Students got help from their teachers via Zoom! 🙄
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Professor, your post here describes what I see each day at the school where I work and it is so sad.
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Or, students don't believe it's no longer necessary. Considering that the human animal is wired to "conserve resources," why work hard to find answers seemingly at your finger's touch, especially if it's something he doesn't want, or need to learn.
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