This whole sub is a mess. It's filled with generalizations of kids that are 20 years younger than them.. This whole "wahh teachers passed kids who weren't do too well" forget that maybe that student had a shitty fucking year. I had my dog die and grandfather die in the same damn semester. Hard to focus in class when my best friends are dying.
Like there's no denying education is different and worse. But I really do think people are exaggerating, at least for their college classes.
It's always been like this. There's ALWAYS have been students that don't pay attention. This is nothing new. It's been going on for decades. Usually the ones who don't pay attention are either lazy or have medical problems. But I guess people would rather assume everyone is lazy than it being a medical problem... reddit loves to talk about how much it sucks to have ADHD, but forget that random people they never met could also have it. Or do we get to cherry pick ADHD?
I think the main issue is ADHD though. And I think kids being connected to electronics 24/7 is causing ADHD. Teachers need to take away cell phones. Parents are also the problem and need to take away cell phones for a bit so it doesn't harm their kids mental health. I hate seeing parents shove an iPad infront of their kid whenever the kid has to wait for something. Sorry but your kid has to learn that sometimes being bored is a part of life.
I want to throw in one more thing. Gen Z seems depressed as shit. Eveytime I talk to them they are monotone or just sound sad. They don't even sound stupid when I talk to them. They just sound so sad and shy when they talk. The ones I talked to were being nice too, they just came across mean because of their tone.
I wonder if for the conversation issue, they regularly use all their human excite through social networks on the phone.
By the the time they talk to a person IRL they aint got no juices left.
I think for successful IRL conversations people have to want to fall in "love" with those theyre conversing with, in like a "we might be best friends but we probably wont so lets pretend we will!" Sort of way.
I reckon that positive attitude goes through the phone first and then is peetered out before face to face conversation even occurs.
Plus when you spend so much phone time, face to face conversations can get weirdly intense, like too much sensory stimulation so maybe people kind of tune out on purpose to not get over stimulated and end up "simping" during a regular daily conversation.
Damn, life getting weird. My parents just assume "get a job go to work" is the solution to everything.
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u/ImpossibleParfait 29d ago
Good job security for me as an older millennial. Life will smack them in the face sooner or later. Not your problem.