I feel for these teachers. From the way they write I can tell they're all well intentioned. However, I think that the argument "how can I tell my students XYZ

I feel for these teachers. From the way they write I can tell they're all well intentioned. However, I think that the argument "how can I tell my students XYZ when other people aren't doing that?", which appears multiple times in this article, is weak. Just because the world has a lot of dumb and lazy people put there, that doesn't mean you shouldn't demand better from the students you're teaching. It makes me question if these teachers can think for themselves, or they're just parroting to the students stuff they had parroted to them. In fact, it's not the first time this argument appears in the context of education. A teacher coould also say "how can I ask my student to learn how to multiply by hand when in the real world no one does that?" That betrays that the teacher doesn't really understand why we've chosen that those things should be taught in class.