High school students are totally behind and addicted to their phones—it’s making teachers crazy and driving them to quit

• Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s obsession with social media, like doomscrolling on TikTok, is making the classroom a living nightmare for some teachers—and driving them to outright quit. While the rise of ChatGPT has promised to revolutionize the field for the better, students may be moving faster than school guidance.

As schools around the country are beginning to let out for the summer, many classrooms may not only find themselves empty of students—but teachers, too. 

That’s because for thousands of educators...