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Im a Gen Alpha guy, with 12 years. I use my phone only at Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and my class is extremly disrespectful with all the teachers and the other classmates. Im currently on 7th grade, never got any low score, and i´m from Brazil. People in my class also have many communication problems.
As a member if gen alpha (on the older side of it just to be clear), I get to see just how bad it’s gotten firsthand because I’m stuck in class with other gen alphas. You’ll hear kids yell out the word “gyatt” randomly in the middle of class, disrespecting teachers just for the sake of disrespecting them, and I’ve even seen literally 12-13 year olds throwing whole ass screaming meltdowns. We’re doomed.
Teachers need to sue. They have taken away the teacher’s authority. Can’t take recess away. Can’t suspend. Referrals don’t mean anything. Newsom in California is responsible for banning suspensions for defiance and disruptions. He needs to be held accountable. It’s abuse what teachers have to put up with now.
They created a system where there are no consequences for refusing to actually learn when they made the “no kid left behind” rule. Parents arent teaching manners and consequences, and teachers cant. Kids will do whatever they want when theres nothing stopping them. The influence of social media certainly doesnt help.
tbh this is really terrifying- I’m actually homeschooled, and I was born (thankfully) just before Gen Z ended. I went to school last year for a change of pace and it was awful. Kids constantly getting into trouble and being blatantly disrespectful and disruptive, and a girl even brought alcohol and a vape to school at one point. It’s not even a bad area or school, its just the kids, and I’m saying this from an 8th grader standpoint.
I’m 13, so I barely get to avoid being classified as gen alpha, and my 3-year-old brother is causing me to worry about the future. Every so often I see the literal definition of brain rot on TV, and while my brother doesn’t have as much exposure, he makes up for it in being a literal psychopath. (what normal 3 year old threatens their brother with a kitchen knife?) In addition, I’ve seen concerning things in school. The curriculum is stupidly easy, yet kids are doing horribly. I’ve also seen a definitive correlation between using gen alpha slang, and being in lower-level classes. In fact, most of the kids I’ve seen hating on it are in the same classes I’m in. Generally, I don’t want to be in a world where I’m considered smart for being able to read an analog clock.
As a tail end boomer, I see two main issues going on. Parents are too busy working to make ends meet, so they don’t have enough time and energy for their kids. That has been so for awhile now. It used to be mitigated by having a grandparent available to help out. But, now the grandparents are still working too. Kids need time with adults who are modeling good behaviors. Second, our culture of instant gratification and the devices that provide it. I find myself getting annoyed when i can’t get something immediately. We’ve been trained to expect it. I can imagine the meltdown a child must have when they can’t have their instant gratification. Especially when they haven’t transitioned from a child’s self centered worldview to having empathy and understanding that other people have needs and wants as well.
I am Gen X teaching Gen Alpha. Their parents don’t want them doing homework and don’t want to help them learn the very basics such as counting or letter recognition. I have many 4th graders who cannot read or count and lack vocabulary. Also, thanks to the Internet, they are hypersexualized, which is scary. 3rd graders were talking about strippers and lapdances.
In my school 12th graders teach other classes on teachers’ day and I had to teach an 8th grade class some math and it boggled my mind how only 3 students paid attention and understood and bro they were learning math that my class understood in 6th grade. I’m horrified how bad things are going and teachers not getting good pay isn’t helping either as they are going on strike and some are even quitting here.
I never hated school. At least not the learning aspects of it. I hated the bullies and the stoopid students who acted out who waste classroom time. I would beg teachers to just let me to go to the library and let me learn myself there. I recalled the elementary librarian calling the teachers to let them know that I am in the dinosaur or history section reading. BTW, I was the special ed kid that had a hard time learning in the regular classrooms due to the speed they went with. At the library I controlled what I learned, and how long I could rehearse and study the same passage. I would’ve loved online learning, especially if fully home schooled and allowed to study what I wanted to study and what to read. Schools today are far worse than ever before. Everyone, including the special ed kids, are forced to learn the same garbage material. Yes, this generation are lazy when it comes to the academics, but that is the fault of parents for not exposing and instilling good habits at a young age. When my mom noticed I was disabled, she would get books and materials for me at a young age of 1 all throughout my developing years, especially those critical first 5 years when the brain grows the fastest. I think if my mom has the internet back in the 1980s like we do now, I would’ve advanced far more, because I would just be reading and clicking everything on Paleontology and Egyptology… and with the connections of the internet I would be contacting and speaking with actual paleontologists and egyptologists all around.
What i have seen as a Gen Z in my school is that majority of my classmates dont do anything much productive.Only a few i know have good hobbies and are creative and nurture their hobbies for the future.Like i do coding and ethical hacking.Other students,well they are busy in bunking lectures,getting into relationships,posting every nanosecond on social media and simply gossiping about others,none of which is productive at atll,only a few do productive things and actually study even if they find studying boring,cause they know it will pave a better future career for them.
The problem with tech and social media is the fact that the creators (the older generations) made what was considered sci-fi decades ago w/out thinking of the consequences. And worst of all, older generations (mainly the ones behind this all) encouraged Millenials, Gen Z, and now Gen Alpha to constantly be on their devices. And we live in an era where everything, including work/school is online (which can be beneficial).
My cousin is a gen alpha and his classmates are more terrifying them himself, He does act like a gen alpha but only to me, To his family and others he acts normal which actually makes me happy, His mom literally told mine that every day he comes with an injury, hair taken out, or a bruise. I haven’t seen his classmates but I feel like they literally are the example of “sense of anger without a device”.
Im 13 years old. My generation is surprisingly dumb its so fucking weird to see my classmates come in with fake tan, dumbass energy etc. Im raised by Gen X and go to a strict girls school so my education is important to me but even for me, i hope my generation eventually piece together which it probably won’t.
Man I was so broke back then in 2014 I remember my parents did not have any money I had toys no iPads no nothing the only thing I had was my sister ps3 that was hooked up to a box tv playing Minecraft. Man miss the times playing on a psp go and playing with my hot wheels I had the time of my life getting excited for getting another toy at target was the best.
Blame lazy parents for never raising their children (If they are and still lazy, that’s not properly raising them). That explains why people lack empathy (I apologise, but I’m really observant. After all, I strongly adapted to the “actions are louder than words” rule). I can relate to those dumb kids. I too am quite dumb when I was a kid, but not that dumb. If you want to undo the chaos, you must think like a dumb child. In my case, I used to want endless entertainment. Think of a child wanting endless entertainment. In my eyes, Building something that actually works should be truly entertaining.
As a person born in Gen Z, I’m glad that none of my family members, the ones born in Gen Alpha, are growing up on brainrot content. They are raised with limited internet and device usage, including me. Even though they’re taking long to learn things, it’s good that they’re growing up being respectful and have a sense of life. Whenever us Gen Z ppl grow up, we should raise our children like how we were raised so we can make the future generation a better place. Like seriously, we should not raise them like how these Gen X parents do, since a lot of us actually know the limits. I’d say give my child their phone at like 10-13. Make them go outside, experience the world how it is meant to be. Make them build Legos, use their brain, grow up on the right tv shows! It’s fr sad how this Generation is growing up. So whenever it’s time for our generation to start raising children, we should raise them right.
As one of the oldest gen alphas, I don’t like how in my class lots of kids are obsessed with the weird content and memes floating around on social media (I myself don’t see why people like it, it’s horrible). However at my school things are not that bad, we never use phones during school time, never complain about it, and I’ve only ever seen the rule broken when two of the kids in my class used their phones briefly during breaktime. We get on with our work and learn fine, none of the stuff that you mention goes on in classrooms (e.g. violence and bullying) and the teachers seem content with their job. I don’t know if this is mainly an issue in the United States, because I live in the UK and my experiences with school might be different, but personally I feel like a lot of the problems to do with gen alpha are greatly exaggerated. I do still think that social media from a young age is worse than it is good, don’t get me wrong.
First of all great article. Yes, its a very important topic that needs to be talked about. Its not just America that keeps getting dumber i myself a Turkish citizen where i been raised by not so strict parents but i have been raised well and educated most of all respectfull but i look at my gen alpha cousins and they’re very disrespectful. my younger cosuins dont listen anything we say. i say that you cant play with my computer and all they do is cry. if i have kids i wont give them a personal phone till their at least 11/12 years old
As a Gen Z, this generation is real dumb. Luckily, my parents don’t allow me and my siblings to use computers during weekdays unless it’s for homework. Since my sister is Gen Alpha, I can see her grade fall down. I usually get A’s or B+, but my sister, on the other hand has D- or even F’s. I also see that some of my classmates act like Gen Alpha. Gen Alpha is also real rude. Sometimes, my sister makes me cry. I don’t think it’s the internet or the parents fault, it’s probably the content.
I just barely make the cusp for gen z and I am TERRIFIED. There are kids at my school who just scream gyat or skibidi all day. I can’t get my work done, other kids can’t get their work done, and school becomes a crappy experience. These kids parents don’t teach them anything about manners, and teachers don’t teach them classroom discipline. This makes some of my favorite classes the worst experience of the day and I am scared. Sometimes I stay up all night thinking about my gen alpha brother is on tech 24/7 the second he gets home from school. I grew up on books and only got a phone at the very end of 6th grade to be able to talk to my friend’s, and I was addicted to it in a matter of days. There are some teachers I know who are trying to fix this problem, but overall, most of them just laugh and walk it off. They don’t care about how disrespectful the kids are and it is infuriating. I’m starting to rant but I just really needed to get this off my chest-
I am in 8th grade and i am between 12 and 15 and i am homeschooled so is my brother and i am very happy we are homschooled its crazy what this generation is coming to we asked our parents to pull us out after and incident at our school. What happened is my brothers SWISS ARMY KNIFE fell out of his pocket (we live on a farm in the mountains) and some girl who bullied him said he has a knife like he just whipped out a damn fully automatic gun and got suspended for 2 weeks he literally forgot it was in his jeans pocket Meanwhile these other kids are disrespecting teachers and getting Ds and they pass its crazy how low these standards are
NO ONE and i mean NO ONE at my middle school(8th grader here) has ever acted violent or gotten an F in any classes! Im lucky every kid at my school wasn’t given a tablet when they were young, im a gen z and didn’t get a tablet until covid and only for learning apps, no youtube, no movies, just abcmouse and other math apps. My brother has grown very violent(he’s younger than me) he has yelled at my mom, punch me, and scream for taking the VR away. 🤦♀️ I’m thankful I was introduced to more slow paced shows as a kid too, while my Brother had fast paced shows. I’m just one teenager in this world but I just hope something will save this generation.
I think a lot of this comes to Juvenioa. There’s definitely valid concerns and news about this new generation, but there’s been constant articles and reports of generations getting angry at each other for decades. Many articles in the past have said previous generations would be the end or doom of humanity or that they are dumber than the last
i am in 7th grade and i am gen alpha and honestly i agree with everything you said about our generation its doomed but this does not mean its too late look at my brother for example he is in second grade he was addicted to youtube shorts and lanky box articles but i told him not to watch them anymore he was a bit sad but i interduce him to something different to rubix cube and building and creating stuff and look at him now one month in without lanky box and youtube shorts and the silly stuff and he now solves rubix cubes and plants tomato and actually takes care of the rabbit and turtle we have and also likes making planes and lego i am so proud of how he became and i am looking to do the same to my sister but its going to be hard since every time i take the phone from her (my old grandma phone) my grandma tells me to leave her alone and don’t scold her for perusal shorts for 4 hours but i will keep trying i think she might become like my brother and change for the better
As a millennial, I honestly don’t know what to do. It only took 3 years working at my career before the salary would not cover the cost of living anymore. I have money saved, but it will never be enough to do anything substantial like own a home. When I get home from working, I’m so exhausted that it’s hard to do anything with my kid. Not only that, but we’ve had the hardest time connecting with other kids. They’re awful, and my kid doesn’t want to hang out with them (can’t say I blame her). This is so problematic because now I’m the parent, playmate, entertainer, etc. That alone is exhausting in addition to the fact that I have adult things to do for work, housework, etc. Screen time has become our go-to because I just can’t do it all or be everything to my kid. And yes, we are struggling so bad with reading and school in general. This was not intentional, but it’s what happened after years of not having the time, energy, or resources needed to raise a kid that isn’t dependent on screens.
I am in 7th grade, and I am on the very beginning of gen alpha. I remember having a screen at around 6-7 years old, but I could only use it on the weekends and had to do chores to keep it. I did well in school and am a magnet student. Now, I am not going to dox where I go to school, but the kids at my school, they are all acting like they are in a gang, annoying everyone, and even the magnet kids im in class with are doing this, even worse than the normal kids. Every single kid I sit next to cheats off me, plays games on their phone or Chromebook all class period, all of them are obsessed with the “current trends” like skibidi toilet, and they made all my teachers, especially the nice (and qualified) ones go insane. My math teacher doesn’t even try to stop them anymore because letting them be on their Chromebook shuts them up. There is so much more I want to say but I don’t want to call anyone out specifically. Tl;dr middle school is being made into hell by gen alpha kids, for teachers and actually good students.
As a millenial, its worrying how addicted we have become to smartphones. I see ALOT of the younger ones making fun of our parents complaining about always being on the phone (see the “just living in the moment meme”), but the reality is, we have become addicted. I noticed it myself, where instead of doing something, be it productive or for fun, including a hobby like playing article games, I would rather “doomscroll”… its frightening.
I am a gen alpha and i agree that i can sometimes get caught doom scrolling but i have a very good social life im not consistently glued to my devices i go outside workout play with friends (outside in the sun) and i perform at a higher rate then my age should ( im 12 but my school grades say i have the smarts of a 16year old) which proves that not all gen alphas are dumb but my younger brother cant leave his ipad alone never goes outside and is failing every class big difference thank u for ur time
Why is this article so underrated i thought it was way more popular, but besides that Amazing and great work of a article! I myself hate how our society is going and parents giving their children a phone at a young age is saddening and extremely lazy parenting from the parents. The internet is full of great knowledge, support & media but also has alot of brain rot and brainwashing. Its sickening.
I’m gen alpha laugh all you want about my age I don’t give a crap. about all of gen alpha being doomed i thought humans had better common sense than to be giving THIS LARGE OF HATE COMMENTS TO GEN ALPHA (this article isn’t that bad tough) I was walking in the park AND A FLIPPING 27 YEAR CALLED ME AN IPAD KID I know some people are spend to much time on electronics i have a max of 2 hours a day so WTH humans. I purpose that the hate going around ALL of gen alpha hate stuff gets taken down or stopped any means necessary. again i do not care a bout the comments of hate about my age id do not care
As a gen alpha,my classmates are all complaining about teachers behind their backs,even swearing and get angry about how bad they were,all behind their backs,also some of my classmates even skip school because they are “sick” but they come back a week later saying that they had the best holiday ever,The world is doomed,I hope gen Beta will be better at least
i am just barely gen alpha (born in 2011), and i am ashamed to admit so. I thank my parents and their efforts to keep me from become a braindead, mindless, goldfish-attention span child. they encourage me to read (which i love to do, im finishing like a book a week, and not some light reading either), play outside, and learn. im thankful that they took the time and effort to raise me in a way that ill have a succesful future
All kids act out as they grow up. This is how they learn where the bounderies are and what is acceptable and moral. Kids who are not disciplined learn that for them, there ARE no bounderies, they don’t care about anyone else, excempt in relation to how they make THEM feel, and have no frame of refference for punishment or hardships as they have never experienced them before. So when they do encounter them, they react in extreme ways to what they wrongly percieve as an attack against themselves. TLDR: “he who spareth the rod, spoileth the child” taken metaphorically, this is an absolutely true statement.
I’m gen Z but I have a gen A sister who is 11 years younger than me. I didn’t even get a smartphone until I was 14, but starting from 3 she watched TV all day, every day. She’s almost 6 and still does. When I move out I’m throwing out the phone I’m using to write this, and I’m gonna have an almost completely tech free house because as the saying goes, not my kid.
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As a general rule alpha with the age 10 this is relatable let’s be honest I watch skibidi toilet a lot. It isn’t that cringe to be honest but Uhm… the gen alpha seems very weird and yes the iPad is very relatable I’m using it literally rn ate last I don’t bring phones to school duh but I do get phisycal sometimes. I also have scolionphobia (I might have spelt it wrong and it means fear of school) and seriously I just went to the toilet today in my school, OH MY BRO they keep singing the skibid toilet song all day idk what else they do dang it my classmates can’t even spell I’m the smartest in the class probably and literally I swear to god I am actually below average.
as a person who is gen alpha (sadly) i am actually so sorry teachers and people have to deal with this. im so glad im actually aware of how bad it is, im gen alpha and i would rather be outside then be on my computer or any device. it scares me so bad when i grow up that this generation isnt gonna be smart enough, you have no idea how sorry i am.
I’ve got a kid named Kevin and he’s probably as dumb as a 3rd grader, this kid doesn’t even participate or even listens to any teachers! He goes on his phone, and goofs off ruining several student and teacher’s life. He’s annoying to even talk to like If I or anyone speaks to him he will speak a whole another language, like you couldn’t even understand him. But sadly, he’s in 6th grade just like me, but he acts like a 7-year old and I’m quite sorry for him for acting like a child born in What possibly BEEN THE WORST GENERATION.
i don’t get it. why are people making such a drama? i’m gen a myself so that means that i interact with other gen a kids and so i know exactly what it’s like and it is waaaaay less dramatic as shown in this article. i’m honestly not sure if this is just mostly happining in america because i’m not from america i’m from germany. but my opinion on this whole school thing: i don’t think we need to cancel school but we deffenetly need to modernize the entire school system. literally nobody needs to know how to do advanced math. i think we should teach the fist 4 years of school like today and after that just stuff like bioligie, politics, a forgein languge, advice on life, sounds weird but maybe even a gender seperated class to give people more traditionel traits like telling women how to be feminin and men how to be masculin. sounds weird but i think that’s the right thing to do.
I was born in gen alpha, but i don’t feel like a gen alpha person, I still feel more like a gen z person because I don’t like kids who say this generations weird words, this needs to be ended with new technology immediately. I do feel like the technology gets me, but I still have a consistent schedule with homework so I stay off it. I don’t watch YouTube for 15 hours a day ever, and I do use a lot, I don’t think it’s as much as the other 77% of kids who use it do much they start to say weird words, which means I’m part of the 23% of kids who don’t use the internet that often, I perform better, and don’t get possessed by the internet
It’s all about perspective. My history teacher said something once that was one of the most inspiring things ever. “People will always bash at your generation because they don’t know your perspective.” Edit: thank you Mr Boyer. You’re the best teacher ever The reason why some kids struggle with disrespect is because they are not shown it by parents, teachers, and people like you Stop hating our generation because of what some kids may do. Not all Gen alpha kids are bad. Even when kids are disrespectful, we live in a world where disrespect is plainly tolerated. Teachers don’t do anything because they don’t care. Anyways, stop. Just stop. You weren’t born in our generation so stop absolutely hating it. I’m sick and tired of articles like this.
My sister struggled with school immensely; an occasional A, with a B, and then a bunch of Cs and Ds. Magically, she entered grade 7 and started getting all As and Bs. When I found out that her behavior had gotten worse and her school work ethic had taken a nose dive, I was bewildered. A year later, she asked me to aid her with an Essay she was writing. I gave it back to her after finding an insane amount of grammatical and sentence structure errors. She rolled her eyes and said she would just turn it in. She got the assignment back with a B+ and I about blew a gasket. A year later, she did that same thing for her Freshman research paper. I corrected her paper and found it to be a D at best. Again, an insane amount of grammatical errors, run-ons, and thesis statement error. She turned it in AS IS and got an A- from the teacher. The school districts are pushing everybody through because the amount of kids with failing work or missing assignments is off the charts apparently. My sister applied for an Interior Design program at Cinci (the highest acclaimed school in the Midwest). The counselor told us that it was an extremely competitive program. She applied a week before the deadline with 2 missing pre-requisites (a missing course and missing portfolio). She was then accepted to the program. Believe me, the educational standards have failed across the board. You might as well send children to school for one day a week for something they WANT to learn. You’d have a better outcome than what this garbage is.
i am in gen alpha. l also have ADHD, and because of that I easily repeat what others do without thinking. One instance is where all the kids where making one dumb joke, which I thought was so stupid, but years of hearing it made me start saying it. I think kids are too easily influenced towards weakness and stupidity. Luckily I am not as stupid as them.
6:00 as a gen alpha on the line of gen z I am one of these people. I hate school because it is boring and I don’t learn anything new. I have 128 iq and I avoid reels, shorts, and tiktok. But I definitely see every issue with gen alpha. my classmates will be on their phones perusal tiktok or yt shorts for more time than they aren’t doing that in class and it genuinely makes me sick knowing I get grouped with those kids. There are only 7 students in my school who aren’t lower in intelligence out of hundreds. Goes to show that some gen alphas are smart but it’s such a small group of people.
I’m just barely Gen Alpha (which I hate) and I despise how stupid my generation literally is. I’m only like 14 and my maturity is much much higher than most students in my year. They still use brain rot words and they called me a “beta” because I’m normally expressionless (mostly due to the fact I actually concentrate on my work unlike the others). Got to say though that it is definitely not Gen Alpha’s fault for being so aggressive and stupid but because of the parent’s lack of care & responsibility of their children. My parents who are actually smart set limits on how much time we have on any device we use per day. This made myself someone who uses the internet as a place to learn with out having any form of social media (besides youtube) to distract my brain’s exponential growth with the dumbest shit possible.
As someone born in the first year (kinda) of Gen Alpha,, I am quite smart compared to most of my classmates, they can’t even read a quick paragraph in SS without my help. You see, I ( was) in a 7th grade class, and the difference between 6th and 7th is jurassic. 6th grade is the normal dumb Gen Alpha the people in this article talk about. 7th grade is more calm and are trendy, but they only say “GYATT” and “Rizz”, the women in my school are….pampered as all hell, they are the only people in 7th who say Skibidi. The 8th graders are probably the most normal people in the School, they act like normal kids, y’know, Pre-Gen Z. You see, in my school there’s 3 generations. Gen Z, Gen Zalpha?(2011 babies) and Gen Alpha. Now you see, a report from my school states “78% of all 6th graders aren’t passing (even with summer school) due to the inability to read, 54% of all 7th graders aren’t passing (even with summer school) due to the inability to listen, and 4% of 8th graders aren’t passing (even with summer school) due to disrespectful additude.”
i have a classmate that goes “sKiBidI DOmDOMDOM yEsYeS” almost every day and they are very annoying + he is the most annoying on P.E. even tho i have a lot of screen time like every day and am kinda Gen Z doesn’t mean am gonna ruin your life and most of the time am at least normal but the classmate ain’t knowin people will start hatin on em even more when they won’t stop
There’s been things I had to learn on my own because we either have barely been taught about it, not taught at all, or taught too late. Nobody in my Elementary School were taught how to write in cursive, we barely looked upon being able to read non-digital clocks, etc… hell we weren’t even taught how to properly use semicolons in writing until 10th Grade… the things I could list just go on.
I got to say, the gen alpha folks commenting on this article are just proving your thesis. I know it’s the internet and all, so it’s an informal setting. But my god, I have never seen so many consistent basic grammatical errors in a comment section. It’s to the point where “if” is being used in place of “of”. At 12 or younger you should know the rules of capitalization and when to use apostrophes, but I have consistently seen infrequent/non-existent capitalization and a complete lack of apostrophes. So, to the gen alpha folks commenting and trying to prove that you’re, “Not like the other kids,” learn some basic grammar before you try to make your point.
I am among the youngest of gen z. Currently I’m in 9th grade (however I’m still going to a middle school, 7th-9th go to this school.) 7th grade, we were the gen alphas outside of a few exceptions like me 8th grade, entirely gen A comes in. They’re shy and no one pays a lot of attention to them. 9th grade, the once 7th graders and now 8th graders. They. Are. Awful. Many of my teachers have said that “As soon as I just start talking, they just go to a different universe” as said by my biology teacher who also teaches 8th grade. In P.E whenever our coach tells us to sit in our spots, they just don’t. They take ages and wander the room. It can take upwards of TEN MINUTES for them to sit down and be quiet for the 2 minutes it is to take role. Most people will blame the lack of listening skills and education to COVID, and that is valid, but it depends on many factors. I missed out on half of 4th grade and the entirety of 5th grade, and suffer from various mental problems that are a burden when I’m trying to learn. Yet, i’m doing just fine academically, no sped classes either. I really think it’s something with the kids, and the academic system. Sure I’m doing okay but the stats say otherwise.
Here is my definitive comment as a gen alpha after perusal the whole article :I have asperger and these kids make me not want to go to America you know what hell I would even go to Russia instead I don’t care if the winter get below – 20 degrees Celsius I would rather wear 2 kg of clothing than get an head injury from a table thrown by a classmate
Almost all my class is brainrotted. I am so happy summer break has started because I can’t stand hearing brainrot words thrown everywhere and it feels like almost everyone is saying it, and I am gen alpha and even I can’t stand my OWN generation. The teachers were being extremely disrespected and I’m glad some of the kids in my class got what they deserved, but it was already too late. The kids are ‘mewing’ non-stop and the teachers were getting close to no respect except for the non-brainrotted kids and I SPECIFICALLY ASKED OUR TEACHER TO BAN BRAINROT WORDS.
Please do not judge me but i was born in 2012 and i too see the decline of younger children’s inelect i see myself that we must change this. all older people should take responsibility over their children. if our generation does not take action, our future generations will have to suffer the consequences.
We have entirely too much over-schooling of the uneducable. People forget that back in the Victorian era the average person quit school after the sixth grade to go to work and apprentice in a trade. And now, 125 years later, in spite of virtually everyone completing high school, the average adult still has only a sixth grade reading level. We need to anticipate those future permanent sixth grade readers and preemptively remove them from school at the age at which they stop learning, or the sixth grade. And go back to forcing them to work.
Despite being born in Gen Alpha, I can relate to how many if them are internet obsessed and are derailing from what could be the average intelligence level. I have a few friends from various ages. The friends who are a few years older than me, I enjoy to hang out more and it’s got an overall better experience to be with them. My “friends” who are a few years younger than me, honestly bug me, and in a way, piss me off, though I’m just gonna hope that’s what my older, more mature friends think about me. And let’s just say the ones my age are younger since they’re anime and screen addicted (but not as extreme). My older friends (and I) enjoy regular toys, one of them likes LEGO, another likes Transformers figures, and I really like Nerf guns, (by my pfp) as well as another good friend. The ones who are younger are screen addicted, unlike my older friends and I. 90% of the time I see them with an iPad, iPhone, or something along those lines. Like bro, it’s not that you can just give a infant the new iPhone 9001 But it’s not just about the screens, as to that the younger “friends” are whiney little btches and they complain about the most random and bizzare things. One of which yapped about how my hands are sweaty which comes naturally, which (in my opinion,) shows the level of disrespect they have. But after that long ig mini-essay, I’ll conclude that if you have a wide age range of a group of friends, 99% chance the older ones are the better friends.
I’m a gen Alpha and in the 5th grade I love my teacher my teacher loves me same as everyone in my class it just makes me sad that my generation is dyeing on the spot and youtubers making 1,000,000 articles with titles like “Gen Alpha is our DEATH” and “Gen Alpha VS Gen X” or “Gen Alpha is DOOMED” please give love and likes to this article my main hope is to be in a youtubers article oh and if you wondering if I like brain rot content F no!
Early gen alpha here some of the stuff I saw in this article were unimaginable to me, especially fighting or throwing something at a teacher, and some of the internet brainrot that I saw just wanted to make me puke, but however, it’s not the device that’s the problem, it’s HOW the kids use it, I use my phone all the time, but I don’t watch brainrot, I mainly watch news on transportation (you can see by my account name) but I started to go down on my screen time and my life has been more fun ever since 😀
As a gen alpha (but not really an iPad kid depending how you define it), i think the best thing to do against this is actually a lot: Parents side: dont give them electronics when young. Or at least, put time limits on them so that they dont brainrot. Teachers side: if the kids are violent, call the police. They’ll gladly take over, and apply criminal charges to the mom. I think those are just massive ego monsters that dont want anything and just only care about themselves.
Even though I am the oldest of gen alpha (2010 btw,) I’m glad I grew up in a gen z like environment, even in 7th grade still my classmates actually act like normal human beings and have actually decent school performances, looking at this article really shocked me at how stupid kids are becoming, and the future of the younger gen alpha kids is something we are not going to want to see and that honestly scares me. I knew some people in our grade still have their fair-share of being idiots, but this is like 4 whole levels ahead of de-generosity
My mom thought it was a good idea to give me an iPad at 2-3 years old 😭… I don’t remember playing on my iPad a lot before the COVID pandemic started. I used to be an extroverted kid who loved to play with Friends more than playing in devices. But times changed since the pandemic started and when I moved. I was quarantined in an apartment. I had to do homeschool before Games and I did do a good job on that. I had no idea what was going on, but I know that a virus was spreading. Now I’m just an addict, always playing with my friends online instead of socializing physically. I am a Gen Z Born in 2010, it’s sad to see Gen Alpha being the dumbest generation yet; but that’s to blame the parents for raising them with devices instead of handling them without technology. It’s unknown if these kids will have a future.
I could speak a second language at the basic level, and known math at a 8yo level, when I was 4. I spent my childhood listening to music on an old MP3, and recording articles on a physical Camera. I only got an F in school once, and that was when I didn’t study at all, because of home problems. Kids nowadays get Fs in the first grade, of counting to 10! And I am compared to a kid perusal 15 hours of YouTube a day, just because I’m in the “Gen ZAlpha” time period.
I am gen alpha and I have high Grades, reading and writing, math levels, etc,have high screen time and kids who don’t have manners and are not preforming well. Try to use kids like me. The reason I said bad manners is so I don’t cause confusion because you can have not high grades and stuff and still be polite, and nice.
Why blame generation Alpha tho. even gen Z cant stand the education system yet they dont wanna do something on the system for a bit. I mean, it’s so damn old fashioned and sitting the whole day in class makes me wanna doze off. And everytime i still need to study by myself because i really dont know what the teachers are teaching. Yea, they are just reading textbooks and slides and we are just sitting there staring at them . DUH
I will be completely honest right now. I’m a older gen alpha and I genuinely have seen how my BAD friends who are also older gen alpha have become. I feel embarrassed and want to get away if my friend whips out their iPad in public and start screaming because of their game. Some others still think “sigma” “Skibidy” and “rizz” is normal to say. I have started to distance myself from a phone and use better speech so I don’t become like them. I have this other friend who is also gen alpha but might as well be a gen z. He doesn’t have unlimited screen time, he talks normally, (why do I have to mention that,) and he grew up like a gen z. So, I hope I don’t become like bad gen alphas ad be part of the normal ones.
I’m gen alpha, born 2012. People in my class throw temper tantrums. I don’t really watch too much YouTube, the most I use is AO3. The consequences are real. I doomscroll. I see the effect on me. People are so rude that they get detentions all the time. I enjoy school, I want to be a therapist or psychologist, maybe an author or something in biochem. This’ll be lost in the flood of comments but you know. Some people at my (old) school did drvgs, sm0ked. It’s sad. It really is.
So, I’m not exactly a teacher, but I have been an assistant instructor for a martial arts class. Each summer, my instructor would host a summer camp. I happened to be helping him out for the past three years. Each year, the camp got harder and harder to manage. The first one I helped with was pretty tame despite having multiple bad behavioral kids and me not knowing how to handle situations. Fast forward to the last summer camp I helped with where it should be easier now that I have experience and it was torture. Didn’t help I was sick while I was there, but even my instructor who hosted this summer camp said it was harder than previous years and he’s been doing it 4 years longer than me.
While there are arguments on when gen z and gen alpha end and begin, I am somewhere right between, although I just say I’m gen alpha because someone will always be saying that if I say I’m from gen z. Yes, I did grow up on screens, but this is a whole new level; and really, I was more tech – savvy then I was tech – addicted. It genuinely scares me how dumb some of my peers are… For examples, I know a sixth grader who doesn’t know how to spell words as simple as heart. I know an eigth grader who didn’t know what prime numbers where- (and when explained it, asked if 12 was prime…) I know another sixth grader who reads 4 pages- FOUR PAGES of some comic like diary of a wimpy kid- heck, sometimes even dogman, and says “It qualifies for my 20 minutes of reading.” and calls it a day. If you’d like to know, it’s the same kid who can’t spell heart or grammar, genuine, comply, etc. I know seventh graders who lose their marbles over “strict teachers” (Aka productive teachers,) I could go on and on, but really, kids are just not learning after 4th grade.
Honestly, I’m not worried about ipad kids, they will likely chill out when they get into late teenhood and early adulthood. The effects of the allmightly ipad doesn’t seem to have fucked up any critical points in their development other than maybe problem solving and other stuff like that, which is bad don’t get me wrong, but this seems to have affected sensitive periods in development, meaning it does serious harm to reading and writing but it is reversible and not impossible to develop those skills layer in life, however the vaping thing is really concerning but nothing new, young people smoked cigarettes before and vapes are no different. Same problems, different coat of paint
Thank god that my parents actually raise me well, and now i’m here, objectively young, obsessed with vehicles and art instead of whatever brainrot trend is going on. It’s genuinely disgusting seeing some people getting absurdly low scores. You could say “But better marks doesn’t mean smartness” One of my friends is performing at FIRST GRADE LEVEL. A SEVEN-YEAR OLD is better than a growing, DOUBLE DIGIT YEAR OLD (i know how it feels to get your age leaked) ALMOST TEENAGER. And the only reason i’m performing at a level that’s above my current school level (elementary, middle, high, college, etc.) is because that the technology now exists, It’s helpful but also two times more damaging. I am so disgusted at the performance of this generation, My sister has had a PHONE AND TABLET before she can even WALK. I hate having to be associated with these absolute brain dead idiots. Sorry for all of this talking. It’s just that this generation is F***ING STUPID. Edit: Yes i have a device but i actually USE IT instead of scrolling for ages. I am on a younger side but a definitely older academic side. It’s not all doomed as when I was young, I was also just brain dead absolutely. Thankfully I woke up. Now I am at a beginner high school reading level and way better at math than most kids. If you are a parent seeing this, somehow, please wake up your kids. Best experience of their life after a while.
Its always the parents fault, until the kid turns 18. Who do we think gave those kids an ipad, when they were 4 years old? Yes, mama and papa. I am a late Z, 07, but still, i am part of this generation. I got my first smartphone, which was a nokia with buttons. I was second grade, i think. My second phone was a CAT phone, which was used by a family friends. It was really old and used, but it still made the job done. Then i got the samsung from my mama, which was about 10 years old. I used it, until i wanted to show my friends, how much it will survive if i drop it on the asphalt. You know how it went. I was with this phone for another 2 months, maybe 3, when my brother got his first brand new phone. It was so much bigger than his hand, but i can only remember that it was a rather cheaper samsung. Well, back then it was rather new. I then made something really awful and ugly. I started crying on the ground, because my brother got a phone. I still feel shame and remember this moment, because we should learn from our mistakes. But then i got a phone too, which i use from 2019 till now (wow, 5 years, soo to be 6). Its a samsung galaxy A20e, which was a new model. The model was a few months old, when my parents bought me the phone. Now i still use it, played many games, deleted them all and now i only listen to music and use it to message friends and family. Now i will stop with this essay, because i am talking too much about just a small item, which, sadly, is quite an important part of out lifes.
Back in the day PARENTS taught their kids abc, 123. These days if you don’t have a phone you can’t do 12 x 12 in your head. If it isn’t printed you can’t read it. If the clock is round with hands, you have to learn something new. Right from wrong went south when a spanking for misbehavior became child abuse. Other animals spank their children . . . to TEACH THEM. But these days you can identify as a cabbage and be treated as one. “Silly human Race” Yes, the band. Look that up too.
I love having unlimited screen time at 5 years old. Butttt luckily, i didn’t use YouTube Kids i used YOUTUBE. So that allowed me to stumble onto informative things on my own. I’m grades ahead of my classmates when it comes to understanding words. Spelling tests i ace without studying, bro. My teacher even asked me how to pronounce something once. It was crazy. I believe I am one of the lucky few of Gen Alpha who has benefited from the internet. I guess i did lose my innocence at 5 but ehh trade off is a trade off.
As a Generation Z, I may not like my Generation but I appreciate it. Generation Alpha is starting to become violent and we NEED to stop it. Sadly Gen Alpha people are joining my school next year, can’t wait to see teachers quit and see rules getting strict as hell. I may see suspensions going at peak. When I was as young as gen alpha kids today, I remember playing Mario Kart on my Wii Generation Z then was so good, they had better humour and they were more mature. I’ll never change my humour having to scroll on TikTok 24/7 but the people out there that I personally know are just braindead, they constantly scroll on TikTok thinking it’s better than anything else. I’m a Gen Z and I never scrolled down on TikTok or shorts before. I watch short articles like how I would watch a normal article.
Children need parenting. Shoving them in front of an iPad and hoping for the best doesn’t work. As a parent myself I’ve limited my child’s screen time and taught her what content is not good for her mind, she can read, she can write, and she can actually interact with other people unlike some kids shown. A tip of advice I’d like to give is DON’T JUST GIVE THEM THE IPAD WHEN THEY MISBEHAVE! You should take it away instead so they know that if they act out they’ll get something they like taken away, don’t give it to them so they shut up because now they think if they act out enough they’ll get what they want. Kids need a structure and even if they sometimes don’t like it or don’t wanna do things you need to teach them that we aren’t always able to do what we want.
Yestrday i was playing with 3rd grades at pe (i am in 7th and the teachers waned everyone to let every one play gether) and theese kids keep saying brian rot like it was english their where some nomal ones but the kept saying what the sigma and singing skibidi doop doop.Imagine when theese kids get to be adults and become politicians Usa is cooked so ima just move to spain where kid are nomal
I’m 13 years old, in eighth grade, born in late 2010. I’d rather be dead than be called a Gen alpha kid, but I usually don’t want to get into the crazy stuff that kids nowadays do. I’d say this affects late Gen Z as well, because of how rude my classmates are. In fifth grade, I had to deal with classmates sexually moaning in my ears, with no escape from them. The teachers didn’t do anything about it. Sixth grade was a relief for me, because I at least had teachers that dealt with the problem. Fifth grade was the last year of elementary school for me, and you could imagine how little I could defend myself because of the school’s fascist-like rules.
Hi, it’s a real gen A here. Just want to say… I know what is happening. My classmates… it’s pretty minor, but other schools across the world? What the heck is going on?! Oh yeah, the reason I call myself a REAL gen A is because I’m. Not. Dumb. Seriously, I have all A’s in sixth grade by the time I’ve posted this. Luckily, just like me there are other surviving members of the real gen A group, still fighting. Luckily, there’s enough to go around to run, like, NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. SERIOUSLY IF ONE OF THEM EXPLODES WHERE ALL DOOMED. The reason for this, is if one of them explodes, I think others will explode… there you go, pro evidence. Don’t really care if you don’t believe me still. Anyways, hopefully this gets resolved in someway, Or at least just, doesn’t make a big problem.
i gen alpha and in my class it is nothing like that. in my class, no one acts disrespectfuly. i think the problem is mostly in america but world wide kids are still acting respectful. but at the same time my friends in class talk more about games like roblox and minecraft but it is not that serious so out of US the problem is not that bad
When we were in 4th grade we used to think that damn and $hit were the worst words you could ever say to a person. We didn’t even know what s*x was. Today’s 4th-3rd graders are constantly cursing at each other (using words like f and b.tch) and they constantly talk about s*x. In 8th grade our middle school was in the same building as an elementary school and anytime we walked past those kids we were in utter shock at what they were saying. I don’t want to sound like a boomer but I think the main culprit here is apps like tiktok and instagram reels. I swear every little kid has an instagram and tiktok account. As a gen z I used to think my generation was bad…
My grandkids are doing well. Why? They are homeschooled and participate in co-ops and extra curricular activities. They also use iPads and do many activities off line. The teens are homeschooled using private online schools. They all behave well and are at or above grade level. Covid caused their parents to pull them out of public schools. Activity include: 4-H, rising dirt bikes, dance, gymnastics, soccer, hunting, family game time, sleepovers, hiking, bowling, arcades, trampolines, swinging, camping, arts and crafts, cooking, chores, field trips, libraries, and many other things depending on the child and their interests and what the families are doing as a whole. As boomer grandparents we do assist in the ways that we can. I worked in education for 20 years and we have a close family. We have 3 kids, 7 grandkids and 3 great grandkids. We also all interact with fiends and extended family like my mom, our brothers and sister and their families. I do believe that today’s younger teachers are not being prepared to teach and do not have classroom management skills. This is not their fault. It is the system from their college education to the administration, politicized school boards and curriculum. I sincerely advise any parent that can to find an alternative for their children. The system is falling apart and doing a disservice to staff and students. First step is get ideology and personal political views out of the classroom. Quit with social justice and DEI indoctrination of both teachers and students.