POP-ing off about Student Apathy: When ‘Meh’ Becomes the Default Setting

You plan a hall-of-fame lesson, spend hours setting it up, and the big response is… a yawn. Are your students auditioning for the role of “Most Apathetic Student 2025?” In this episode, we pop off about how student apathy has gone from the exception to the norm, why it’s not just “kids these days,” and what (if anything) we can actually do to fight the great wave of indifference. Spoiler: it’s not more Jolly Ranchers.