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Thanks to Parenting Moments for this insightful post!

“She has taught the same subject in the same building for two decades. She has watched something shift, gradually and then all at once, in how children arrive at school, how they engage with material, and how long they can sit with a problem before needing to move on. Critical thinking is harder to teach. Attention is shorter. Social behaviour has changed in ways that are difficult to quantify but impossible for any experienced teacher to ignore.

She has a theory. Devices have fundamentally rewired how children process stimulation. A brain that receives a reward signal every few seconds through a screen, through gaming, through short video content, does not wait patiently for slower, deeper satisfaction. The classroom cannot compete on stimulation. So it loses the attention battle before the lesson even starts.

But not everyone in this conversation agrees that devices are the whole explanation.
A second perspective points not at children but at their households. Parents are working longer hours under greater financial pressure than any recent generation before them. Screens became the gap-filler not out of laziness but out of exhaustion. That is a structural problem, not a personal failing, and blaming parents without acknowledging the conditions they are operating in misses the point entirely.

A third perspective says look at the school itself. Six hours in a chair. Rigid structures. High-stakes testing applied to children carrying real stress from home into a system that was not designed to absorb it.

Three theories. One classroom. All of them probably containing some truth."

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