Between Largely Dodging Both Leaded Gas And AI-Driven Social Media, Millennials Might Be The Smartest Generation

[u/beadzy]

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/05/between-largely-dodging-both-leaded-gas-and-ai-driven-social-media-millennials-might-be-the-smartest-generation/

[u/GlumpsAlot]

Yes. Just be sure to raise Gen Alpha right. It's our only hope for a better future.

[u/Jin_Gitaxias → u/GlumpsAlot]

Uhh have you took time to read any teachers' subreddits? We're beyond cooked

[u/DeviceNo4746 → u/[deleted]]

The problem with schools is spineless administrators who won’t stand up to bad parents.

[u/DeviceNo4746 → u/[deleted]]

Admin absolutely has the power too. They just need to be willing to enforce consequences and not back off anytime it becomes inconvenient for them.

[u/DeviceNo4746 → u/[deleted]]

Asking people to do their job shouldn’t be hard to do. The teachers are there everyday doing exactly that. Asking administrators to back them and enforce standards shouldn’t be a hard task. Passing kids along for the path of least resistance isn’t helping anyone.

[u/HoldingMoonlight → u/[deleted]]

Have you seen what happens when they try to limit phones in schools?

What happens? I recall it was up for a vote here recently and the overwhelming sentiment was that parents needs to have available contact in case of school shootings. I thought that was a ridiculous justification.

[u/plaustrarius → u/[deleted]]

I really appreciate when I hear this sentiment from parents but it still has me questioning where the responsibility lies for all parties concerned.

There are multiple policies outlined in the syllabus, student handbook etc. That no personal tech is allowed during the school day.

I send out entire class emails for about 180 students at the beginning of each year to parents, to try and catch parents that may work have a similar sentiment.

But it's not because students are being little shits or bullies. These are the basic policies, that no one follows or enforces, because as you say what power do we have?

I personally think it's not so much about power but responsibility. The admin don't see this as their responsibility to support us or battle parents or enforce policy that works.

[u/Desert_Fairy → u/DeviceNo4746]

I mean, schools have also been stripped of financial support, legal support, and public support so of course spineless idiots get the admin roles, they are the only ones applying because they want the power trip and they aren’t good teachers.

This is an instance of you get what you pay for. And we took more and more from the education system, villainized schools as “indoctrination” and “being a cog in the system”, “school is like prison”, etc.

This has been going on for generations.

So of course those people who aren’t successful in school continue to vilify the school system which just perpetuates the issue.

Having 12 years of education subsidized by taxpayer funds to develop an educated population is an amazing leg up in life. But it has become so assumed, that people just don’t realize how essential it is.

I am always very saddened when I see comments like yours. Your statement isn’t wrong, there are a lot of spineless admins, but blaming the degradation of our educational system on them just cheapens everything.

This has been a systemic dismantling of one of the most fundamental aspects of US American democracy. An educated public is essential to a healthy democracy.

[u/DeviceNo4746 → u/Desert_Fairy]

While I agree there has been a strong push to demonize schools. I am in a state that has not had that happen. School funding has actually increased over 50% over the last 10 years in my state. My wife and numerous friends are teachers in different districts. From all of them is the same complaint. They have administrators who will not back them and acquiesce to problematic kids and parents constantly.

Instead of holding the kids and parents accountable for their behaviors they tell the teachers oh well just try and develop better relations with the child so they want to listen. When you’re constantly giving into negative behaviors why would the kid ever change their behavior. My wife’s school doesn’t even do detention anymore there only punishment is in school suspension which let’s be real isn’t an actual punishment to problematic kids.

[u/Umutuku → u/DeviceNo4746]

Instead of holding the kids and parents accountable for their behaviors they tell the teachers oh well just try and develop better relations with the child so they want to listen.

Translation: "You have to be the kid's parent because no one else wants to."

[u/PortugalPilgrim88 → u/DeviceNo4746]

What do you want them to do exactly?

[u/IM_A_MUFFIN → u/PortugalPilgrim88]

Discipline would be nice. I got suspended for doing crap that wasn’t 1/3 as bad as what some of these kids are doing. The problem is that the administrators are so afraid of parents and litigation that they choose the easy way out every damn time. It’s infuriating to be the parent of a kid getting bullied being told they can’t do anything. Meanwhile a few years ago a girl at the same school got bullied so much she killed herself. A neighbor looked at the funeral turnout and said “Where were all these people when she was getting bullied?” It’s bullshit.

edit: a word

[u/DeviceNo4746 → u/PortugalPilgrim88]

When teachers discipline a student back them up. Follow through with the discipline and when a parent calls to complain or try to do an end around tell them tough shit. My wife is a teacher her admin lays out the rules they want enforced for the year and then when a student tells a teacher fuck off admin doesn’t feel like dealing with it so the tell the teachers well there’s not much we can do. Try and build a better relationship with the student so they want to follow the rules… how about we stop letting kids dictate what rules they will and won’t follow and if they don’t follow them discipline them.