[Serious] Long time teachers of reddit, what differences do you observe in your students today, and the students you taught 5,10,20 years ago?

Oh I've got a wonderful example of how shitty some parents are nowadays. My wife is a middle school teacher and this drama just unfolded recently at her school. A colleague of her's has a group of girls in her class that just cannot be together or else they will never pay attention. After seating them separately and sending them to office numerous times, she finally ripped into them during class. Just couldn't take it anymore and had to really raise her voice. The next day, these girls go to the office separately and give the some statement to the principal. The teacher had personally insulted them, called them names, and they were really upset. These were obvious lies to anyone who knows the teacher AND to the students that were present in the class.

This teacher is now under investigation from the school system (because they submitted 3 corroborating stories at separate times in the day) and these girls parents HAVEN'T DONE SHIT about this. The teacher was given 3 options; Quit, take medical leave for the rest of the school year (for an actual medical condition she has) or fight it. If she doesn't fight it, these girls win. These parents either haven't showed up for anything or have sided with their kids.

If these were my children I would be asking what where they doing for the teacher to call them names? Were they being little shits? Now if the teacher was an abusive asshole, then fuck'em. Fire them. But, 9/10 kids this age are just the worst human beings can get. If a teacher yelled at my kid, they probably did something to deserve being yelled at. There aren't many teachers out there who just love to abuse and yell at kids.

Nope, nowadays the kid's are always right. Little johnny cried abuse? Well let's take a look at all of the facts before we start ruining people's lives. This sounds terrible, but it's true. We need to take this stuff seriously, and that goes both ways.

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