And blame it on phones and social media
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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This is your brain on tiktok
Idk, school was like that when I was a kid and our mental health wasn’t as bad as Gen Z’s.
>45 minutes, 8 hours a day, five days a week
What!?!
On the third one especially you’re clowning yourself. Rather add a note that has them be required to do more work outside school (so glad homework became optional later on for where I went).
Wait until this guy has to get a job
OP thinks teaching kids how to read, write, and do math is useless. The real clown.
The school system has its problems, but it isn’t the root of this particular problem.
Don’t you hate this free education thing? It’s so awful to know things
There’s so much learned helplessness from parents too
like come on, do your damn job. Your kid going to school, even if it ends up being shitty for him, isn’t the end of the world. Get off your ass and nurture him. We shouldn’t get rid of school, we should be improving it, and being better parents too.
I mean, in canada we had 1-2 gym classes a day, do they must have cared a little about our physical health.
Yes. And this is why depressed and anxious Kids are a phenomenon since school was invented – WAIT A MINUTE
r/im14andthisisdeep
I’m trying to teach my students about not believing everything their exposed to and to challenge ideas. They don’t care.
I didn’t experience any of this when I was in school.
The difference?
Social media and your phones.
If you think school is like prison then I really hope you don’t end up in actual prison
Had me till panel 1
Who goes to school for 8 hours a day 45 minutes at a time
What “useless stuff” are you referring to?
Mostly useless stuff? What are you talking about?
It’s social media that’s fucking up your mental health kid, not school. Put the phone away and see how it goes.
Meme is accurate, but to be fair social media is beyond a shadow of a doubt bad for children. Especially platforms like TikTok. The problem is rapid fire dopamine hits. With that format there is no time to say or do anything intelligent or thought provoking. You watch a ten second clip, get your dopamine, then move on to the next one. It is instant gratification in rapid succession. Toddlers are getting parked in front of their Ipads for hours a day because parents can’t be bothered or are too burned out to actually spend time with their kids. Then when then time comes for them to attend school those same parents will scratch their heads trying to figure out why their kid cannot pay attention for more then ten seconds.
I disagree on the first point. The others are true
Do people really view schools this negatively?
Take it from someone who only recently departed from the education lifestyle. School is awesome. It’s not the reason the kids are depressed. It really is the phones and social media.
Realistically though social media is a major factor there though. School hasn’t changed a ton, and early exposure to social media and the Internet as a whole is kinda frying peoples brains.
It gives kids unrealistic expectations, it ruins your attention span by giving you constant dopamine, it floods your brain with misinformation since youll have damn near zero attention span most people aren’t going to sit there and really question/think critically about anything they hear. And he’ll this isn’t even just coming from me think about how often you hear teachers complaining about the fact that kids just don’t know much/think as well as they used to.
Plus there’s the learned helplessness of parents as others have said.
The school system could definitely be better but to say that early exposure to the Internet and social media isn’t a major factor is just incorrect.
And yet every generation before this safe space needing needing group did the same and came out perfectly fine. Don’t hate the circus, hate the clowns….
It’s a lot harder in the real world cupcake… get used to it early. It’ll be for the best.
It 100% is phones and social media, you may not know this but kids have been going to school in the same way you are over 100 years before you were born and they were fine. Social media is not 100 years old, social media is one generation old. This anxiety epidemic is also one generation old, hmm what could be the cause? Listen your clearly a child and you like your social media but you don’t realize constant instant stimulation combined with comparison is literally the thief of joy and the fast track to anxiety
Idk all those points have existed for 80 years.
Back in the day, we didnt have internet or smart devices. Imagine that in your “prison”.
Prison? By high school, I woke up at 5 to walk to school, listen to music, smoke pot, and bask in the cow shit, hung out with my friends and the love of my life until 2:30, played drums and hung out with my friends in the band room until 5. Went outside to walk around and smoke more pot until 7pm, when the gym and swimming pool were open until 9pm. Then I walked home and smoked more pot.
Wouldn’t trade it for the world.
I mean the social media and phones are still a big issue
… Videogames
OP I’m dead serious challenge yourself to stay off social media for your Thanksgiving break and enjoy time with friends and family without it. You will be surprised at how good it makes you feel, but will still go right back to it anyways because it’s wired into your being at this point
Idk, I enjoyed school, but I’m still depressed and anxious.
It’s definitely not useless… What you’re being taught isn’t solely about the exact information, but also how you gather it, reiterate it, and analyze it.
I always hear people say that they didn’t learn to do taxes in school. Sure, but hopefully you learned to do basic math, to read, to research, and to follow directions. So many adults say that they didn’t learn anything in school when they clearly spent much of their time fucking around.
Obviously the system isn’t perfect. How can a single method work for the multitude of personalities and learning types? But also, yeah, phones and social media are fuckin y’all up!
I have kids and anything they don’t get immediate satisfaction from is prison to them. So you’re not wrong, just missing the whole point all together.
Ok buddy get back to doing homework now
Maybe not all of what we learn is “useful” but a lot of it is. Math, English (or other), Geography, Home economics, even biology and chemistry can be useful in ways you don’t even think about.
Even with stuff we don’t use, it’s good to learn that stuff as well. Makes life interesting instead of just work and then death.
Blaming your free education for your problems is actually wild.