A lot of the doom and gloom about “kids these days” misses a fundamental truth: kids are kids. They’ve always been kids and they always will. Even though the technology and the culture around them has changed, young people are still basically the same.

But there are some subtle differences in today’s younger generations. They’re hard to miss unless you’re interacting with a lot of kids en masse. No one notices the changes in America’s young people quite like teachers.

Teachers say boys in class are constantly ‘touching each other’

Eli Carbullido, a young teacher who’s popular on social media for giving the Gen Z perspective on teaching other Gen Zers, says he’s noticed something strange in his classes.

“Having taught middle school and high school boys for the past three years, there’s a lot of things that I’ve just had to accept as normal for them. … But the one thing that I will never understand: Why are you always touching each other?” he says in a recent video on TikTok.

“Literally, 7th, 8th grade, freshman, sophomores, juniors, seniors, they are always touching each other.”

He’s not just talking about roughhousing and wrestling. And he’s not talking about queer kids actually flirting with each other. He’s noticing an uptick in platonic, affectionate, and playful touch between the........

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