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Arcalgalkiagiratina · 2025-04-19T18:09:39+00:00

High school senior here. I don’t think it’s a matter of how humane the teachers are to the students(most of the time), but how humane the students are to the teachers.

I’ve seen countless stories of teachers being verbally abused by their students, and being put into situations that can quite literally ruin their life. This affects how the teachers behave towards their students. There has to be a way for teachers to be able to stand their ground and assert that they have authority over them.

Now, I understand that some teachers can just be cruel, but in my experience, I’ve only had a couple of bad teachers. Sometimes the Teacher behavior reflects student behavior

Catsnpotatoes · 2025-04-19T22:16:33+00:00

Millennial teacher and there's a massive difference between how I have to teach before and after covid. Before I could be chill because I could expect my students to respect the basics of the social contract for the most part. Don't be a dick to others. Don't touch other people or their stuff. The basics.

Over the last couple years I've have gotten more strict as a result of those basics not being a given. Many of the high school boys I teach can it keep their hands off each other or try to shut down each other's tech. Much of the work ethic has gone out the window so while I used to have a very forgiving late work policy I had to end that. That being said most kids are kids but just seem a few years socially behind. It seems like the middle has bottomed out so either there's students struggling significantly or are over achievers and self-sufficient

DraperPenPals · 2025-04-19T18:29:35+00:00

As a millennial, I think teachers have changed because expectations and demands of teachers have changed. Some examples:

Teachers used to tell us “I don’t want to know about your personal life” and “I didn’t hear that” when questionable things were shared. Now we include emotional support and trauma aid as part of the teacher’s duties and that barrier doesn’t really exist anymore.

But paradoxically, teachers are putting up a lot of other barriers. I remember having a lot of teachers who were capable of buddying up to students and building really great rapport while still keeping a firm hold on the classroom. Now that half of the country seems to believe teachers are there to groom children and teens, I don’t see so much friendliness and fun banter between teachers and students. Teachers are kind, but seem to be quite scared of being conversational and social with students.

And, of course, student and parent behavior have really changed, so teacher behavior has had to change. Not to sound like a grandma, but it wasn’t that long ago that a call home to parents could instill some real fear and compliance in children and teens. Now that we have a generation of parents who outright disbelieve and distrust teachers, teachers have lost support from parents in the conduct and discipline area.

Not to mention that old school punishments like detention don’t really work in a world where kids socialize less than ever. Detention used to ruin afternoon plans; now it’s an extra thirty minutes of playing on a Chromebook, which the students would be doing anyway. So now that punishments are useless, teachers are expected to coddle and tolerate bad behavior—a total 180 from my time as a student.

Just my two cents.

Jack_of_Spades · 2025-04-19T18:07:26+00:00

Srrict and uotight exists for a reason. Because students listen to it and learning happens. Miss honeys make great instagram reels. Trunchbulls get results. You don't keep your job for being kind. You keep your job because they learn and are respectful.

If students can be calm and respectful, we don't need to be as strict. Two-way street.

SophisticatedScreams · 2025-04-19T18:53:09+00:00

I'm a geriatric (sigh...) Millennial teacher, and I felt cared for and supported by my own teachers as a kid. I feel like I use more nuanced language than my teachers did, but surely that is an effect of time? I feel that I am a very caring teacher, and very attuned to my students' feelings. I'm proud of that, but I also feel like some teachers did that in the past?

Signal-Weight8300 · 2025-04-19T20:13:12+00:00

I'm a Gen X teacher. In high school (1980s), my all male Catholic school still used corporal punishment. If you mouthed off to a teacher, you were going to be smacked. Some teachers had a paddle, some used their hands. Our parents sent us to this school because of it, there was no whining about it or your dad would double it.

Now I'm a teacher at a different all male Catholic high school nearby. I have a very good rapport with my students. I generally don't have any real trouble. I do explain to them how the times have changed. I would never strike a student, but move us back to 1987 and the kids would have a different perspective.

2025-04-19T21:26:34+00:00

Gen X teacher. I think the students (or rather expectations for students) have changed more than I have.

I do think some younger teachers have bought into the "it's all about your feelings" mentality. Boomers, Gen X, and some Millennials are very similar in their approach, IMO: the adult is the authority and children should do what we say.

2025-04-19T21:33:28+00:00

I’m a 44 year old second year teacher at an inner city type high school. So I’m an elder millennial almost Gen x.

I am strict about certain things. But to me they are necessary things to be strict for. Other things not so much.

There were rules I had to put in place because the kids abused something real bad. So developed new policies to keep my sanity and my classroom running smoothly. I can relax said rules like that if I chose to on an Individual basis as needed. But it’s an exception that’s not common.

I am extremely nurturing. I want to create happy memories with them and for them. Like the time our teacher made a silly tik tok with us. Or said some clever thing that generally cracked them up.

But I also will get into a back and forth with them occasionally. When they are being exceptionally over the line ridiculous. But I’m also a pushover in many ways. I treat seniors like they are little kids and give them toys and let them draw and be creative for projects. It makes them so happy. I can see the little child they used to be in their smiles.

I definitely spoil them with gifts and praise.

smthiny · 2025-04-19T18:32:13+00:00

I was given no slack as an elementary school student with misbehavior while dealing with significant trauma at home.

Now we pull all the stops to make sure individual needs are met .

So, much different. And for the better.

Also, I think younger teachers have an easier transition to teaching in the new landscape than the old guard. Without having concrete expectations it's a lot easier to be more fluid with expectations.

Sheetz_Wawa_Market32 · 2025-04-19T18:52:42+00:00

I don’t know when PBIS became a thing/widely adopted, but it’s been fantastic in my kids’ current (public U.S.) elementary and middle schools, which have become so much kinder, more empathetic, and just all around better than then I was a schoolkid.

There are obviously still huge differences between schools, districts, and states.

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Saturday, April 19, 2025

How humane and kind are teachers to Gen Alphas and Gen Z's these days? How are they different from the teachers we had when we Millennials were the students?

How humane and kind are teachers to Gen Alphas and Gen Z's these days? How are they different from the teachers we had when we Millennials were the students?

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