Comment by obscurette

While phones and social media certainly contribute, I think that the main problem is elsewhere – most of young people just refuse to take any responsibility. I'm in my sixties now and remember that since first grade it was solely my responsibility to study. Yes, my grandmother and mother helped, reminded me things etc, but I wasn't allowed to say "but teacher didn't ...". It was sharply cut with "nobody cares, you have books and friends and can study yourself".

Now while I was a teacher I didn't see a single student with parents like this. It was always teachers' fault if a kid didn't learn, got a bad grade, just didn't listen or behaved like an asshole.