I really feel for these parents.

A big part of the problem is just not enough funding going to education - we have nowhere near enough teachers to go around, which ultimately means lots of kids are missing out on the one-on-one education moments that smaller classes would enable (“Just draw a picture”).

But also, in my experience, some of the problem is also the attitude schools have towards this, which tells me they’re not trained enough to deal with the variety of mental and social issues kids face nowadays.

The default setting at my daughter’s school is to talk to me like I’m a parent that needs to be told how to parent, like I’m the one not doing something right. Admittedly, I feel a lot of this attitude probably comes from the school’s principal - he clearly loves the smell of his own farts - but it shits me when they get this haughty, arrogant attitude when talking to you because they’re “educators”, rather than partners (with parents) in teaching our kids how to be humans.

Kids today are dealing with so much more than what I had to deal with going to school in the 70s and 80s. They have information flying at them from all sorts of sources, and it’s nearly (nearly) impossible to raise a kid today without access to technology and the internet. Otherwise, you’re at risk of creating a social pariah, as they’ll invariable miss out on things.

These things have changed the mental and social game considerably, and I feel our education system has done a pretty shit job of keeping up with these changes.