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Newsweek: Gen Z Teacher Quits, Reveals Why She Thinks High School Students Are Doomed [View all]
Last edited Tue May 13, 2025, 09:35 AM - Edit history (2)
Newsweek - Gen Z Teacher Quits, Reveals Why She Thinks High School Students Are Doomed
Published May 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM EDT
Marni Rose McFall
A Gen-Z teacher has shared why she left the profession in a social media video that has been viewed millions of times. Hannah Maria, who taught tenth-grade English, sounded the alarm on the impact of technology on kids in a nine-minute video.
Why It Matters
As of 2024, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were found to be illiterate, with 54 percent of adults having a literacy rate below a sixth-grade level, according to the National Literacy Institute. Low literacy costs the country up to $2.2 trillion a year, according to the NLI.
A report released in January 2025 from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that the reading and math skills of fourth and eighth grade students have declined in multiple states to below the national average.
What To Know
At the time of reporting, the video has been reshared to X where it has been viewed 4.3 million times. The TikTok account where the original video was posted has been set to private.
Filming in a classroom shortly ahead of her last day teaching, Hannah Maria said that "technology is ruining education."
"School boards and superintendents and people who actually can make this true difference in their school districts aren't listening," she says in the video.
She shared that she teaches in a district where each student is given an iPad from sixth to twelfth grade.
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Published May 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM EDT
Marni Rose McFall
A Gen-Z teacher has shared why she left the profession in a social media video that has been viewed millions of times. Hannah Maria, who taught tenth-grade English, sounded the alarm on the impact of technology on kids in a nine-minute video.
Why It Matters
As of 2024, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were found to be illiterate, with 54 percent of adults having a literacy rate below a sixth-grade level, according to the National Literacy Institute. Low literacy costs the country up to $2.2 trillion a year, according to the NLI.
A report released in January 2025 from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that the reading and math skills of fourth and eighth grade students have declined in multiple states to below the national average.
What To Know
At the time of reporting, the video has been reshared to X where it has been viewed 4.3 million times. The TikTok account where the original video was posted has been set to private.
Filming in a classroom shortly ahead of her last day teaching, Hannah Maria said that "technology is ruining education."
"School boards and superintendents and people who actually can make this true difference in their school districts aren't listening," she says in the video.
She shared that she teaches in a district where each student is given an iPad from sixth to twelfth grade.
/snip
On edit: tweet w/ video:
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
This woman teaches 10th grade high school in America
She’s leaving the profession. She says kids can no longer read proficiently, they won’t pay attention, won’t listen to authority, they don’t think the Declaration of Independence is important, they’re writing their papers with ai like ChatGPT, they don’t know math, they don’t care about history
This videos goes over exactly what’s going on in high school classrooms in America
“It's just been a really poor experience. This generation is really tough. And I will admit that I'm just not cut out for it. Anyone who starts now and will be a teacher from here on out with the generation that we're teaching right now. I commend you”
10:02 AM · May 12, 2025
@WallStreetApes
This woman teaches 10th grade high school in America
She’s leaving the profession. She says kids can no longer read proficiently, they won’t pay attention, won’t listen to authority, they don’t think the Declaration of Independence is important, they’re writing their papers with ai like ChatGPT, they don’t know math, they don’t care about history
This videos goes over exactly what’s going on in high school classrooms in America
“It's just been a really poor experience. This generation is really tough. And I will admit that I'm just not cut out for it. Anyone who starts now and will be a teacher from here on out with the generation that we're teaching right now. I commend you”
10:02 AM · May 12, 2025
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