English transcript

I think that you guys don't know what's going

on in education right now. That's fine, like

how could you know unless you were working in

it, but I think that... I think you need to

know. So here is exactly what it's like right

now working in public education. First of all,

the kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever.

They live on their phones and they're just fed

a constant stream of dopamine from the minute

their eyes wake up in the morning until they

go to sleep at night. Because they're in a constant

state of dopamine withdrawal at school, um,

they behave like addicts. They're super emotional,

like the smallest thing sets them off. And when

you are standing in front of them trying to

teach, they're vacant. They have no ability

to tune in if your communication isn't packaged

in short little clips or if it doesn't have

like bright flashing lights. That's actually

the way harder part for me than just the outright

behaviors is just being up at the front talking

to a group of kids who have their eyes open,

they're looking at me, but they're not there.

They're not there. And they have a level of

apathy that I've never seen before in my whole

career. Punishments don't work because they

don't care about them. They don't care about

grades. They don't care about college. It's

like you are interacting with them briefly in

between hits of the internet, which is their

real life. I've seen some TikToks recently where

teachers are getting a lot of hate like for

not adapting to the kids or punishing them or

whatever and I just gotta say like... I can

tell you with absolute certainty it is not the

teacher's fault. It might be the parents' fault.

It might be our capitalistic society's fault.

But it is not the teacher's fault.