I can understand an Olde Phartte someone from my generation banging on about how the Yoof Of Today are hopeless wankers when it comes to education and being taught in the classroom. (And yes, I use the word “wanker” in its most appropriate sense, as you will see later.)
But when a 26-year-old teacher gets all ranty on the above topic… well.
“These kids don’t know how to read,” she says flatly. “Because they’ve had things read to them, or they can just click a button and have something read out loud. Their attention spans are waning. Everything is high stimulation. They can scroll in less than a minute.”
And:
Teenagers who refuse to write even a paragraph, who throw tantrums when asked to handwrite an assignment, who beg to ‘just type it’ – not to save time or effort but to copy and paste answers from the internet or use AI to do the thinking for them.
She believes the behavior of her high schoolers is only part of the problem. What worries her is the sense that this generation, raised on screens, simply doesn’t care about anything whether it be learning, literacy or even the basics of society.
“They don’t care about making a difference in the world. They don’t care how to write a resume or a cover letter. They just have these devices in their hands that they think will get them through the rest of their life.
“They want to use [technology] for entertainment. They don’t want to use it for education.”
Hence my use of the term “wankers”: self-pleasuring little wastrels.
Her solution?
“I think we need to cut off technology from these kids probably until they go to college,” she says. “Call me old-fashioned, but I just want you to look at the test scores. Look at the literacy rates. Look at the statistics. From when students didn’t use technology… to now.
“If you can’t read and you don’t care to read… you’re never going to have real opinions. You’ll never understand why laws and government matter. You’ll never know why you have the right to vote.”
By George… I think she’s got it. And I repeat: this isn’t some Olde Phartte like me; she’s Gen Z, FFS. And if someone in that group is starting to despair about the future generation…
She’s quitting teaching. At age 26.
Somebody somewhere needs to give her a job — in a proper school, run as she describes it — because this is a lovely seed just waiting to grow. She shouldn’t be wasted, because gawd knows there aren’t that many like her.
I think she’s more Gen Z rather than Gen X. The way they divide generation cohorts is often hard to follow, but I think by most schemes she would be either tail end of Gen Y or early Gen Z. Kids entering High School today are usually called Gen αlpha.
Thanks, Rich. Gen Z it is. (I get so confused with all these generation monickers…)
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26 years old is NOT gen X. Gen X is 1960s and the early 1980s
I am early 40s, so I am an OLD millennial. So many Gen X and baby boomers shit on us millennials, but many of us (not all) but many worked our asses off and I was in my 20s when Barrack and Biden butt fucked the economy around 2009 to 2016, created inflation, housing prices increased, many perfectly good vehicles crunched up cuz they didn’t get good gas mileage and they started the major acceptance of all the affinity groups of LGBT, Illegals (DACA) and made buying insurance mandatory for anyone with money and gave it away free to losers at the expense of those who paid into the pool.
Anyways, even the Gen Y and Z are noticing things are fucked up. ANd while this isn’t going to be popular to say, – Yes millennials, Gen Y and Gen Z have some fucked up people in their ranks, the Baby Boomers and Gen X were the ones in charge and let all this fuckery happen on their watch.
Question is do we have enough millennial, Gen Y and Gen Z with a modicom of common sense to reverse the bullshit? Time will tell, but I am scared as hell the answer is likely no.
It starts with the parents.
Lazy, stupid parents begat lazy, stupid kids.
T’was ever thus.
I agree with that to an extent, however outside of the parents homes MANY influences.
Teachers and schools want to let kids chop their cock off and not tell parents, sex changes and changelings and Lettuce, Guac, Bacon Tomato Klan, brainwash and brain rape little easily influenced minds.
Then when the kids turn 18, and they are still kids in a way, the politicians say, hey vote for me and ill steal shit from working people and give it to you, you dont have to work. Just give up your free speech and give up your guns and do what we tell you.
In other words, the Govt is butt fucking the country too, along with stupid parents, this creates a huge fucking problem.
One sad thing I will say is this, so many young people today under 30, think that Trump is bad for wanting a border and believing in the 1st and 2nd amendment. They also seem to fail to understand the whole, work hard get ahead, be a loser stay poor, because they want everyone to be equal.
This is all due to the rotten education system, which needs to be defunded en masse. Trump is trying. But he needs more cuts to funds and deeper cuts to funds. These commie fuckers running the education system are vile cock suckers who have been and are doing a good job brainwashing people to be future commies.
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”
― H.L. Mencken
True statement. And I will say that ALL generations seem to be guilty of LOVING this type of system.
ALL entitlement programs need to be GUTTED. ONLY veterans and people truly in need (mentally retarded and physically disabled or suffering from disease that prevents ability to work)
– Food stamps
– Welfare
– Section 8
– Social Security (The baby boomers will get touchy on this, yet they benefit the most from this).
– Heat Assistance
– School taxes should only be paid by people with crotch fruits currently in school.
NO MONEY FOR PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES. CUT ALL PUBLIC FUNDS TO IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES!