Gen Alpha’s School Year Challenges

10. Environmental Concerns: Dealing with anxiety about climate change and environmental issues, which are becoming more prominent in education.

9. Digital Overload: Gen Alpha students will struggle to manage screen time and balance online learning with recreational digital use.

8. Mental Health: Gen Alpha students will be coping with anxiety, stress, and other mental health issues exacerbated by academic pressures and social dynamics.

7. Social Media Influence:  Your Gen Alpha Students will be faced with navigating the pressures and influences of social media, including cyberbullying and the desire for online validation.

6. Academic Pressure: Like never before, Gen Alpha is facing high expectations for academic performance and the stress of high-stakes standardized testing and new levels of competitive college admissions.

5. Social Skills: Developing interpersonal skills in an increasingly digital world, where face-to-face interactions are sometimes limited, will be a HUGE struggle for Gen Alpha moving forward

4 Adaptability: Adjusting to changes in educational formats, continuing hybrid learning models, and relying on online learning even in an in-person setting, as tailored and personal learning is available.

3. Extracurricular Balance: This will continue to be a Gen Alpha struggle but will become even more overwhelming with more and more extracurriculars also including outside school settings (travel sports, after-school arts programs,.,)

2. Safety and Health: Managing concerns about physical safety and health, including issues related to school violence and the long-lasting psychological impacts of the “COVID years.”

1. Identity and Values: Above all else, Christian students, especially, struggle with identity formation and maintaining personal values amidst peer pressure and societal norms. Identity and how they “identify” themselves in various settings will be a growing struggle among this emerging generation of students!