Throughout my school life I have been surrounded by people I'm sure many of us would affectionately refer to as "idiots". Almost every day I am amazed by just how unintelligent someone can be. People who are in their last year of nationally mandated education and yet have no idea what the Soviet Union was much less the Cold War. People who never knew that Japan was a major power in the Second World War, or that there was even a First World War. There is even one person in my Political Science class who doesn't even know his ABCs, and yet has ended up sitting next to me in a class that is part of my school's College Preparatory Program. People like this are a nickel a score at my school and tend to annoy the hell out of me. But the one thing I find admirable about some of these people is that they actually try, even though they might not succeed in their endeavor.
In the last few years though I have seen this particularly dim flock begin to thin and have begun noticing a new trend of willfully failing classes growing in my school, as well as other schools as far as I can tell from my social interactions with other people both online and in reality.
Yes. Students who willfully tell their future to fuck right off and fail all of their scheduled classes, all while trying to maintain the status of "the cool kid", as if repeating the same grade and classes over and over again is somehow consider cool by any stretch of the imagination. I'm sure almost all of us in high school at the time have either seen, know, or befriended one of these people. The kind of kid who sits in the back with their cellphone texting all class period then comes up with a bullshit excuse for not being able to turn in their homework they swore they did, or if they have the gall, will outright curse out the teacher knowing they can't do very much about it. From the classes I have been in over the last few years I hove noticed almost all of these people have a gangster mentality and view school more or less as force labor camp or a place meant exclusively to hang out with similar minded friends.
I am aware this trend has existed as long as school or much less civilization as a whole, but it has exploded form just a small percentage of students to an alarmingly large portion the past few years. In a modern day world where jobs are scarce and students in one country have to compete for even the most menial jobs with people with more degrees and better education from a country on the other side of the world, education and skills are key. What's worse is that a lot of these people will find jobs in their life and still have this same attitude towards work. It's because of this that hard working people like me have to serve an increasingly large line of impatient customers while they text in a corner and contribute very little to the workplace.
I don't claim to know the causes of this trend, but I do have my theories. Regardless of the cause, I do not believe that many will disagree with me that this is indeed a major problem in modern day society.
[sub][sub][sub]EDIT: Whoo 4th Gonzo![/sub][/sub][/sub]
In the last few years though I have seen this particularly dim flock begin to thin and have begun noticing a new trend of willfully failing classes growing in my school, as well as other schools as far as I can tell from my social interactions with other people both online and in reality.
Yes. Students who willfully tell their future to fuck right off and fail all of their scheduled classes, all while trying to maintain the status of "the cool kid", as if repeating the same grade and classes over and over again is somehow consider cool by any stretch of the imagination. I'm sure almost all of us in high school at the time have either seen, know, or befriended one of these people. The kind of kid who sits in the back with their cellphone texting all class period then comes up with a bullshit excuse for not being able to turn in their homework they swore they did, or if they have the gall, will outright curse out the teacher knowing they can't do very much about it. From the classes I have been in over the last few years I hove noticed almost all of these people have a gangster mentality and view school more or less as force labor camp or a place meant exclusively to hang out with similar minded friends.
I am aware this trend has existed as long as school or much less civilization as a whole, but it has exploded form just a small percentage of students to an alarmingly large portion the past few years. In a modern day world where jobs are scarce and students in one country have to compete for even the most menial jobs with people with more degrees and better education from a country on the other side of the world, education and skills are key. What's worse is that a lot of these people will find jobs in their life and still have this same attitude towards work. It's because of this that hard working people like me have to serve an increasingly large line of impatient customers while they text in a corner and contribute very little to the workplace.
I don't claim to know the causes of this trend, but I do have my theories. Regardless of the cause, I do not believe that many will disagree with me that this is indeed a major problem in modern day society.
[sub][sub][sub]EDIT: Whoo 4th Gonzo![/sub][/sub][/sub]
