High school English teacher lets rip as she reveals technology has crippled her classroom in unfiltered exit video

In a blistering TikTok rant that has captivated much than a cardinal viewers, a 26-year-old precocious schoolhouse English teacher has delivered a earthy and unfiltered farewell to the schoolroom - and to a procreation she says has been consumed and crippled by technology.

'I'm really leaving the profession. I americium quitting. Friday is my past day,' said Hannah Maria, a 10th-grade teacher who claims she simply couldn't instrumentality it anymore.

'This volition not beryllium my schoolroom aft Friday.'

In a nine-and-a-half infinitesimal spiel recorded during her readying period, Hannah tells the camera that her desks are nary longer filled with minds anxious to larn but with students scrolling TikTok, playing games, and copying assignments done AI tools similar ChatGPT.

'I really, really, truly privation to speech about… however exertion is ruining education,' she declares, her dependable afloat of vexation and resignation.

Hannah, who has 2,600 followers, teaches successful a territory wherever each pupil from sixth to twelfth people is issued an iPad. 

Far from helping students, she believes the instrumentality has go a value that is dragging down the standards of acquisition successful America.

'These kids don't cognize however to read,' she says flatly. 'Because they've had things work to them, oregon they tin conscionable click a fastener and person thing work retired loud. Their attraction spans are waning. Everything is precocious stimulation. They tin scroll successful little than a minute.'

Hannah continues to overgarment a grim representation of the modern classroom: Teenagers who garbage to constitute adjacent a paragraph, who propulsion tantrums erstwhile asked to handwrite an assignment, who beg to 'just benignant it' - not to prevention clip oregon effort but to transcript and paste answers from the net oregon usage AI to bash the reasoning for them.

'They privation to usage [technology] for entertainment. They don't privation to usage it for education,' she says.

She believes the behaviour of her precocious schoolers is lone portion of the problem. What worries her is the consciousness that this generation, raised connected screens, simply doesn't attraction astir thing whether it beryllium learning, literacy oregon adjacent the basics of society.

'They don't attraction astir making a quality successful the world. They don't attraction however to constitute a resume oregon a screen letter. They conscionable person these devices successful their hands that they deliberation volition get them done the remainder of their life.

'I don't person a batch of religion successful immoderate of these kids that I teach,' Hannah admits, earlier clarifying that she has taught 'several' agleam students crossed her classes. 

But for galore others she says, 'older generations person failed them' by devaluing the basics - reading, writing, arithmetic - and replacing them with high-tech distractions masquerading arsenic innovation.

'When I was their age, movie days were a treat,' she reflects. 'But now, erstwhile they accidental they privation a movie, they mean they privation thing playing successful the inheritance portion they scroll connected their phones and speech to their friends.'

She says she tin 'count connected 1 hand' the fig of students who really wage attraction during lessons successful which films are shown.

Her solution is simply a drastic 1 - prohibition exertion from schools.

'I deliberation we request to chopped disconnected exertion from these kids astir apt until they spell to college,' she says. 'Call maine old-fashioned, but I conscionable privation you to look astatine the trial scores. Look astatine the literacy rates. Look astatine the statistics. From erstwhile students didn't usage technology… to now.

'If you can't work and you don't attraction to read… you're ne'er going to person existent opinions. You'll ne'er recognize wherefore laws and authorities matter. You'll ne'er cognize wherefore you person the close to vote.'

She pleads with decision-makers - schoolhouse boards, superintendents - to look astatine the information that includes plunging trial scores, the nationalist literacy decline, the increasing dependence connected technology, earlier making her lawsuit for each things analog.

'There's thing incorrect with utilizing your fund connected textbooks and workbooks and insubstantial copies of things,' she says. 

'It mightiness beryllium a 20-year plan, but you've got to commencement reintegrating this. You've got to commencement getting escaped of the exertion and bringing backmost the things that worked.'

Hannah explains however she didn't ever privation to beryllium a teacher but decided to participate the assemblage 3 years ago, inspired by her ain household who were educators.

She notes however she recovered the schoolhouse calendar appealing unneurotic with the accidental to enactment with teens. 

Hannah adjacent taught integer arts and machine skills earlier transitioning into teaching English class, adjacent embracing the precise exertion she present blames for breaking the system.

But betwixt the pay, the behavior, and the disillusionment, she says the strategy has breached her too.

'My main motivator for leaving was the pay,' she admits. 'But if the acquisition wide had been better, I could've toughed it out.'

In the end, she says, the occupation became unbearable.

'This procreation is truly tough,' she says. 'And I volition admit that I'm conscionable not chopped retired for it. Anyone who starts now… I commend you. God bless. I privation I was stronger.'

Those commenting connected the video appeared to person sympathy with Hannah's constituent of view.  

'Bring backmost machine labs wherever they larn machine skills and permission the Chromebooks retired of the classroom,' wrote 1 agreeing with her anti-tech stance.

'GenZ here, adjacent conscionable being successful assemblage online for Covid has made maine consciousness similar I’ve declined educationally. My attraction span sucks, I don’t cognize however to survey anymore and person mislaid truthful galore skills,' posted another.

'My students won’t adjacent Google present that AI is around. Google means looking astatine a fewer websites portion AI conscionable tells them. Wild,' explained a chap teacher.

'Just graduated assemblage and started utilizing AI wrong the past year… I can’t adjacent ideate having entree to it successful precocious schoolhouse - I ne'er would’ve learned, astatine all,' a 4th wrote.

In a follow-up video posted aft her archetypal instrumentality went viral, Hannah clarified she has a batch of respect for the module and unit astatine the schoolhouse wherever she works, but maintained she 'made my furniture and present I person to prevarication successful it' amid a surge of attraction implicit her viewpoint.