2011-02-17, 07:35 PM
nikki Wrote:I'm going to break my lurker status and, as a teacher, say something.
It makes me want to throw up when someone tells me that it's my job to just deal with this pomegranate. I get cussed out, yelled at, fought with, and ignored...
It's certainly not just teachers taking crap from teens, but their parents too. And the parents have no more control over teens than the teachers do. Once kids hit puberty respect for parents turns to ridicule. Grades can plummet within a span of a few months, and no amount of arguing or badgering can change that. Peer pressure is everything. If a parent tells a teen he should maybe not always skip breakfast and lunch because its not healthy or that he should wear a coat because its cold today, the suggestion is ignored or mocked. A friend tells him he should shave his head -consider it done.
I know every generation of parents thinks their generation of kids are the worst ever, but in this case I think there really is something going on. The degree of apathy, laziness and foul temper seems to be off the charts. Kids routinely mouth off, lie, and so on in ways their parent's generation wouldn't dream of doing at that age. I wonder what the cause of this is. Too much depressing news? Over stimulation from too many hours of TV and gaming? Lack of exercise and bad diet or some common food additive causing laziness, apathy, irritability, insomnia (as well as obesity and diabetes)? Or maybe just spoiled rotten. Wish I knew.