US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline

Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by ToucanLoucan on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @09:58AM (#45197797)

Oh I completely agree. But it isn’t the parents problem, it’s the teachers, and the teacher is uniquely un-equipped and disempowered to deal with it. They have a room full of kids to attend to and one having a meltdown because they’ve lost their dopamine dispenser and have no emotional regulation capability ruins that entire class.

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Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by djeastm on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:11AM (#45197985)

Fair enough, I misunderstood your point. It's so strange to me that teachers are having to deal with any of these behavioral issues. I seem to recall it being the domain of Assistant Principals and what we called "resource officers". Any disruption more than a childish comment meant a trip to the principals office escorted by an officer. That was it. Teaching could continue.

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Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by etempleton on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:20AM (#45198112)

The issue is you can no longer physically remove a child. So getting them there is the problem if they are not going willingly and if they are a big enough problem they need to be removed it probably means they aren’t doing anything willingly.

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Re:US HS students lose ground in math and reading, continuin... by jjani on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:54AM (#45199566)

> The issue is you can no longer physically remove a child

What change has made this impossible?

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