We’re Raising a Generation That Can’t Handle Reality

Students sit in a classroom facing a teacher at the front of the room while a dark overlay displays the headline “We’re Raising a Generation That Can’t Handle Reality” alongside an AJnet Editorial byline for Joseph “J.R.” Heston.

J.R. Heston has spent nearly twenty years teaching in Philadelphia classrooms, and he says the situation is getting worse fast. From violent students to social media addiction and parents who refuse to hold their kids accountable, Heston argues that schools are producing a generation completely unprepared for the real world.