Weed Heads Are Producing Dumb Kids

With the virial video of kids “not being able” to read a writing prompt. There has been much blame of who’s at fault.

Read – https://theeducatorsroom.com/viral-tiktok-has-students-struggling-to-read-basic-sentences/

But what if it’s a combination of parents and teachers. The children in the video all had something no one noticed, they all had a brain pause. They weren’t lacking awareness, they were confused. Understand, the teacher’s job is to improve pronouciation, and vocabulary. But parents, if the home and environmental isn’t healthy that can have a chemical reaction to a child’s brain development.

Recreational Drug Use Shows Up in the Kids

Research suggests that parental cannabis used by both maternal and paternal parents can affect a child’s cognitive development. Because of the implications of promoting weed culture and dispensaies, it’s been a push to down play research like with complaints with prescription drugs, cigarettes and other household chemicals. This challenge allows varied evidence, depending on who uses cannabis and when it’s considered a problem.

Read – https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/health-effects/brain-health.html

Youth Cognative Decline

Cannabis use by mothers during pregnancy has shown associations with cognitive and developmental effects in children. Studies suggest that prenatal cannabis exposure could be linked to problems with attention, memory, problem-solving skills, and behavioral issues in children.

Research has documented changes to brain structure and function with prenatal cannabis exposure, though some recent studies found no significant association with early developmental delays up to age 5.5 years.

Read – https://www.europeanjournalofmidwifery.eu/Cannabis-use-during-pregnancy-and-its-effect-on-the-fetus-newborn-and-later-childhood,168727,0,2.html

Emerging research indicates that fathers’ marijuana use can also impact offspring brain development through epigenetic changes in sperm health. These brain changes in babies occurred even though only the father was exposed to cannabis before conception, and the alterations resembled changes seen in babies exposed to known neurotoxins.

In addition to parents use prior to conception, you also have contact highs from poor ventilation and shared spaces. Because weed is seen as harmless and not as potent as say crack, the concern of how it affects the brain has been generally ignored.

Read – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25957157/

The Kids With the Weewoo

Adolescents using cannabis more than three times per week showed worse performance on measures of executive control. Those using twice weekly or less show equivalent or even slightly better cognitive performance compared to non-users, suggesting a complex, non-linear relationship.

Read – https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2678214

Let’s Talk Science

Research shows that cannabis exposure can have cross-generational effects, with parental THC exposure causing brain and behavioral changes in children who were never even exposed to the drug.

THC exposure triggers epigenetic modifications including DNA methylation and histone modifications that alter gene expression in regions associated with cognitive function, addiction vulnerability, and neurodevelopment.

What that means, our dna has building blocks and the THC compound that creates the euphoric response, causing those blocks to float around and bounce like bumper cars. Once the high is down, it’s literally rearranging the dna’s blocks that are needed to allow the brain to have a sorta 1+2+3 to learn. Imagine if someone constantly tells you counting looks like 2+5+3+1 and each time changes as you count. This disruption shows up in cognitive confusion of a child.

Teachers Aren’t Off the Hook

Teachers throwing kids and parents under the bus isn’t amiss. Children go to school in hopes the teachers fill the void the parents can’t provide. 20 years ago the parents themselves couldnt read and teachers used to be a safe space for those struggling from systemic failures of Black literacy. Not anymore.

Uncertified teachers skip many of the professional development trainings that identify students deficiencies. So when the time to raise concerns showup, they miss that moment, instead worried about their pay and false ethics to keep their jobs, not the students failing upwards.

When a teacher is just there to get paid, they practice dismissiveness, neglect, and bias as if they themselves are in school dealing with an OP. There is also abuse where the need to humble a child starts to turn the learning experience into a fight between peers, fueling the lack of respect between all parties. Add in cognitive decline, you have an adult teacher poking a bear of a young student with low emotional regulation, and childish reasoning for mediation.

Never forget an uncertified teachers doesn’t invest in the training needed to do their job. When they complain about not getting paid, they forget the money they focus on, doesn’t cover up the fact they are hired to repair something they themselves didn’t respect enough to do correctly.

Suddenly educating the adults (teachers) to do their job swallows up the school budgets and the kids are now in competition with the teachers for attention. Screw the fact they are hired by the State to train children skills they themselves barely know, then blame the parents for not teaching kids at home.

Parents on the other hand become combative and embarrassed by their children’s low performance, using racism accusations and bruised egos to confront teachers. Let’s ignore that the parents are probably weed babies themselves. It’s basically the dumb leading the dumb, fighting the dumb. It’s actually a health crisis that needs to be identified than a finger pointing game. And all that giddy weed smoking by adults, it’s showing up more subtlety every generation, more inward than outward deformity.