My wife is an educator. Over the years, she has witnessed a large increase in kids that simply won't behave. This year was the worst in her 30 year career. Kids cursing, hitting and biting teachers. Tearing up classrooms is normal for the 'students'. She attended a two day session last week on how teachers need to protect themselves and de-escalate the situation when it occurs. The instructor gave the reasons why kids are behaving this way. 'Problems at home', 'frustration with the lesson' and 'gender identity'. The instructor stressed the latter is a 'HUGE' problem these days. Funny how it was never an issue before in the previous 200,000 year history of our species…
