rant

so i have been pondering about my professional life as a teacher, having been teaching for 3 years already.

it seems to be a growing trend for students to be more and more antisocial and shier -- which spells doom for me.

my boss once said "what's the point of those vocab and grandma if the students are not gonna use them anyway? let them speak and be noisy in your class" -- well, suits me fine. i like talkative and naughty students anyway.
but then,

for the past few months the number of shy students i have had has been increasing and they are really on a roll. now to make matters worse, these type of shy students are not the ones who just stays quiet in class and does whatever exercise their teachers instruct them to. worse. they turn to their cellphone and start texttextextexting. now this seems familiar, where have i seen them before?

oh, yeah! family reunion! or those cases where a bunch of parents eat out in a restaurant with only a single young kid following. pity. to kill the boredom, they give this kid his cellphone. for him to "socialize"
but anyway, who am i to talk? every chinese new year when we go pai cia and my parents start chatting with relatives, i'm left with nothing to do so i turn to my smartphone and start texttextexting as well.

now, trend makes children allthemore antisocial and they're bringing this trend to classes where i teach.
how deep is the shit am i in?