Thread: Kids these days

Pa. teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog - Economy news

A high school English teacher in suburban Philadelphia who was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges "disengaged, lazy whiners" is driving a debate by daring to ask: Why are today's students unmotivated — and what's wrong with calling them out?

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"My students are out of control," Munroe, who has taught 10th, 11th and 12th grades, wrote in one post. "They are rude, disengaged, lazy whiners. They curse, discuss drugs, talk back, argue for grades, complain about everything, fancy themselves entitled to whatever they desire, and are just generally annoying."

And in another post, Munroe — who is more than eight months pregnant — quotes from the musical "Bye Bye Birdie": "Kids! They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs. Noisy, crazy, sloppy, lazy LOAFERS."

She also listed some comments she wished she could post on student evaluations, including: "I hear the trash company is hiring"; "I called out sick a couple of days just to avoid your son"; and "Just as bad as his sibling. Don't you know how to raise kids?"

I figured that I'd bring this here to get some sense from a few generations (and hopefully even a few teachers) about the following:

1) Are kids these days really lazier than my generation (I was born in 1980), or are they equivalently lazy, but in slightly different ways?

2) Should teachers be allowed to talk smack about their students on a private blog on the internet, as long as they don't name names?

3) Is the rules-and-responsibility-oriented approach of TPG saving the adults of the future from this otherwise crazy, attention-shattering world of video games?

Originally Posted by Toad

Pa. teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog - Economy news



I figured that I'd bring this here to get some sense from a few generations (and hopefully even a few teachers) about the following:

1) Are kids these days really lazier than my generation (I was born in 1980), or are they equivalently lazy, but in slightly different ways?

2) Should teachers be allowed to talk smack about their students on a private blog on the internet, as long as they don't name names?

3) Is the rules-and-responsibility-oriented approach of TPG saving the adults of the future from this otherwise crazy, attention-shattering world of video games?

Its the sociological effect of long term democracy. Compare children raised by long branching american families vs children from other forms of government. Though technology also plays a part in the subsequent psychological effect.

Teacher has to let it out somewhere, who cares what she says as long as she does her job, and does it well...

Originally Posted by Toad

1) Are kids these days really lazier than my generation (I was born in 1980), or are they equivalently lazy, but in slightly different ways?

Yes they are.

2) Should teachers be allowed to talk smack about their students on a private blog on the internet, as long as they don't name names?

Yes.

3) Is the rules-and-responsibility-oriented approach of TPG saving the adults of the future from this otherwise crazy, attention-shattering world of video games?

That could be debated.. I think what we do is draw likeminded people, and generally those people don't have as much issues with the above. The ones that do, no surprise, either learn and cahnge, or don't stay long.

Psshhhhhh I'm not lazy!

I agree that kids are lazier these days....but at the same time, i think kids are more aware of what is going on in the World than my generation was. The internet has provided a wealth of information and opinions that just weren't there when I was a pup. Also, and partly because of this, i think this latest generation is impressive in their own way.

After 10 years of war, our military is still strong....meaning it's the kids of today's generation are the ones stepping up to the plate, to fight wars that have been going on since they were ~8 years old. No draft needed. That says volumes to me, about them.