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MAY I have your attention?

Many of my students don't even bother to complain. After four years of Pandemic Schooling, Gen Z and Gen Alpha have exhausted their patience and hope for traditional school. Which puts me in a pickle, because I was teacher-trained between 2017-2021. I have done my best to adapt more creative, engaging, and meaningful lessons, but the generations of tomorrow are out of practice thinking of the future. My students sleep or play on their phones during class. Sometimes I can pull them out of the app-drunk stupor to enjoy a lesson, but those days are few and far between. While initially I was driven mad by this lethargy, I have come to accept it as a scar on the minds of young adults.  Their precious formative years were spent in isolation, anxiety, and eventually exhaustion. Zoom school was a nightmare for everyone. I was just beginning my teaching internship when we introduced the online models-- by the middle of the year, my ears were raw and bleeding from using earbuds (I eventually
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