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Challenges that Today's Youth is Facing - Coggle Diagram
Challenges that Today's Youth is Facing
Social Media
Is it harder for youth to distinguish reality from fiction?
Is it the parents job or does a content creator have a job to "police" their content?
Is it okay for children to see potential dangerous activities performed by content creators?
Should content creators be sponsored or make ad-revenue if their content is child-targeted?
What effect does it have on youth's self-esteem?
Filters changing the way your face looks can have adverse effects on children.
Are the problems we face worse than in the past? Or do they seem more prevalent due to the mass sharing of information in the media?
At what age is it okay for a child to have an online presence?
Should parents be able to share their children on social media?
Children cannot legally consent to being online.
Underage people do not understand the ramifications of being on the internet and that fact it is forever.
Parents using their children for views
Youth not being able to control their online presence or image.
What should parents be able to share and not to share?
If a child doesn't have access to the internet, what would it do to their social development in our online-saturated world?
Mental Health
Stress from School
Will kids develop bad coping skills?
Should schools offer more mental health support?
Should schools offer classes to handle stress and increase emotional intelligence in schools?
Are schools assigning too much homework?
The pressure to go to college is increasing.
What does the pressure do to the kid's mental health?
Potential too many extracurriculars to pad college applications.
is this creating too much unhealthy competition among peers?
How much competition is too much competition?
Should schools suggest other alternatives to college?
There is a huge need for "blue-collar" industry workers
College Degree does not equal success and money.
Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Peer-pressure to conform
Does Social Media cause more children to get involved in dangerous behaviors such as drug use?
Has there been an increase or decrease in drug use since the dawn of social media?
Violence in Schools
How can schools be made safer for students and teachers?
Should teachers be able to have a firearm on campus?
Will gun control solve this issue?
People who are going to break the law, won't worry about the law when buying guns.
Controlling guns will greatly reduce the amount of guns owned in our country.
Is homeschooling a viable option?
How to standardize homeschooling curriculum?
What effect does homeschooling have on children's social development?
Why does America suffer from school shootings so much?
How does this affect the mental health of students?
It is our gun laws? Why do other countries not have this issue as much as the United States?
What is being done about keeping our children safe? Why is the government not doing something to prevent this gun violence?
Why has the number of tragedies increased in the past decade?
Teachers feel unsafe and are leaving for different careers.
There is a teacher shortage and its hard to find decent teachers or people willing to become one.
Teachers feel like the job they do is not worth the salary they receive.