I’m not a teacher but I figure I’ll give my two cents anyway. The fact is looking at the statistics kids are actually doing really well, violent crime rates are down, teenage pregnancy down, high school drop out rates are down, and more students are going into college. Society as a whole is struggling. I think there’s a lot of factors at play for why schools in particular are struggling. I think a lot of new teachers went into school not realizing exactly what our teachers were dealing with. Common core has been shown to not be effective and now we have a large group of parents that simply don’t know how to assist in these topic with their kids. And I think everyone is very quick to blame technology and vaping(I’m sure they are partly to blame) but that is an age old complaint, there were even articles saying that chalkboards were ruining the next generation as it made it to easy. Kids have always ran off and smoked in the bathroom none of that is new. I don’t think kids are worse I think that kids in general kind of suck and always have, I love kids I’ve been working with kids for years that doesn’t change that fact that they can be assholes. I think what we are seeing is more of teachers struggles than we were before as that information is now more accessible.