Generation Alpha slammed as 'feral, illiterate, screen-obsessed iPad kids'

[RamsayBolton]

Generation Alpha are 'feral, illiterate, screen-obsessed iPad kids'

Generation Alpha now makes up over two billion youngsters, with many seen as iPad obsessed, out of control menaces with poor social skills that were hampered by the pandemic.

www.dailymail.co.uk

The latest generation of youngsters have triggered concerns about the future with their excessive use of technology and internet trends coming under the spotlight.

Dubbed 'Generation Alpha', children born between roughly 2010 and the end of 2024 now make up the largest cohort of kids to ever live on planet Earth.

But the two billion-plus toddlers and pre-teens are already being cited for their illiteracy and uncontrollable thirst for screens, raising fears over what is to come.

Scores of teachers continue to leave education as they struggle to control illiterate kids, with one expert telling the LA Times: 'Teachers are complaining they have 14-year-olds who can't read.'

'We hear people complaining [alphas] lack empathy — well, you learn that through literature,' said Shervaughnna Anderson-Byrd, director of the California Reading and Literature Project. 'There’s a lot of blame being placed on these babies when it’s the adults setting the narrative.'

Across social media, Generation Alpha are dubbed 'feral' and 'evil' as they continue to make headlines, not least thanks to the presence of smartphones to capture every moment.

 

[the elastic]

Capitalism will solve this

 

[jmegamar]

This isn’t completely wrong. I got teacher friends who tell me that middle schoolers can barely read or put together a paragraph of coherent thought.

 

[acri1]

"Two billion"?

Article already lost credibility, there aren't even nearly that many human beings in that age group.

 

[Diondon]

NGL I see it all the time
my lil nephew stay with that screen in his hands even when eats
but then again I blame his mother

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

"Two billion"?

Article already lost credibility, there aren't even nearly that many human beings in that age group.

Well the article did say Earth and not just the US.

 

[Blessed Koala]

I remember my wife had a client that literally said out of her mouth that the tablet was her babysitter . As much as technology is a gift, its twenty times the curse as I see children just laid out on the ground at a store looking at some demonic children's show on YouTube, just staring like a zombie. It's gross.

Like I get it, kids are friggin obnoxious, and sometimes you need a break, but when you constantly throw a tablet at the child as a pacifier...don't feel any type of way when they rely heavily on that same pacifier

 

[Neo TheInsurrectionistONE]

Spare the rod spoil the child

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

Its the parents fault but its hard to raise kids when you gotta pay bills especially now when we make shyt money and they charge us for every fukking thing

 

[Heimdall]

Hmm. I was going to ask for a different source but I'm not sure the LA Times is much better. It feels like they're getting the intergenerational fearmongering in early lol

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Yeah. There’s a storm brewing and it ain’t looking pretty….. Majority of third graders(inner city schools) aren’t passing reading standard tests…. And there is now state policy in place(Alabama) that could force schools to flunk those kids going forward…..

 

[UpNext]

Oh Lord, they already got the weirdo generalizations for Gen Alpha going.


"Bu-bu-but millennials are gonna be so much different than the baby boom generation socially and politically." No the fukk we won't be

 

[neph27]

Just an outrage farming article. You clicked and lost. I lost because I read it. Poor excuse for actual journalism

If you subscribe to the same worldview I'm sure seeing it written makes you feel good

 

[↓R↑LYB]

This is nothing new. They did the same bullshyt when I was young with video games and rap music.

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

And dumbies out here still wants people having more children. We need to fix the 10 billion people we got.