Poll: Are Kids today taking School for granted?

[Dogstile]

Amazing how many people forego the actual topic to point out the clearly intentional joke of this threads topic.

You'd be surprised how similar things can be in certain schools worldwide. Here in the UK, any of the lower to middle class schools are dominated by these 'I don't care about my future' types who make life hell for everyone else.
Then they wind up either dead or on the street. One guy who gave me hell as a kid I recently saw sleeping on a bench outside a supermarket looking like a dog had pissed on him.

I lol'd.

^ This, pretty much.

Every idiot who thought it was an awesome idea to do diddily squat (I'm trying to avoid swears lately, can you tell? I will even make up words to do this) in school tend to end up on the street, and its especially prevalent in lower class schools.

I recently saw a few of these guys hanging out talking about how they had high paying jobs, £100 a week.

A week? Seriously? What the hell are those guys doing? I can get £300 a night if I trained for four weeks as a bouncer. And that's considered a low level job. Idiots.

I also saw the dude who always tried and failed to beat up the smart kids (forgetting the smart kids had big friends, like me ) getting knocked on his ass by someone half his size a few weeks ago. Made my night.

So yes, people aren't taking it for granted, however, you get that in any society Some people just don't pull their weight and fall behind. Its normal.

 

[Paksenarrion]

As a new teacher, I'm ashamed to admit this, but if a person isn't ready to go to school, or doesn't want to go to school, they shouldn't go to school.

 

[Astoria]

Don't worry it is exactly the same here in Australia. I know so many kids who dropped out or just stopped caring in year 10 and they just don't seem to get that if you don't finish year 12 you pretty much won't get to anything you want to do. They seem to think that they can just lay around and get money handed to them all their lives and do what they want. It's their loss really, we'll always need people on checkouts and giving us fast food.

 

[Womplord]

Can you really blame them? I mean, school is all they have really ever known so what do you expect?

 

[EHKOS]

No, because the schools are doing a terrible job and the people in charge are making terrible decisions. Maybe if they had more common sense they would do better.

 

[Vault101]

Here in America (specifically New York) I try my hardest in school and get high moderate to Good grades (amazing in Social Studies. ) but I noticed many, seem to not give a damn in the world and just hang about, getting drunk, getting low grades, talking when teachers talk, just overall just not seeming to care that High School will have effect on their lives.

Many skip classes, go about doing stupid things, and just never seem to get the memo that they aren?t going to be successful. I school has made these PSA things about staying in class, doing work, etc, and while they?re cheesy, there true.

No matter it seems how much they push that school is important, it seems like many kids just don?t care and then walk away with their pants slightly down and thinking they?re ?gangster.? It just sickens me and I almost fear for our generation.

I can?t speak from experience but I assume it?s not as bad in foreign countries.

dude thats not "kids today" its just kids in general

I mean some liek school

some dont but get through it

and some are just assholes who fuck around and make it miseralbe for the rest of us

I did my primary and some of my highschool in a small country town, so while some were normal school kids (the kids in my year) other just didnt give a fuck (kids the the higher year) the "dont give a fuck" thing was generally more common, also in the public systm but thats jsut because of sturgions law

Private schools have "dont give a fuck" factor but its less tolerated

and the one that "dont give a fuck?" theres a MILLION reasons,

honestly I swear Im going to do some kind of shooting if some twit complains about "kids today" one more friggen time

 

[tzimize]

its not kids today. its kids every generation. school is boring. the school systems need to do something to fix this.

Alternately spoiled brats should learn that not EVERYTHING in life is or can be fun, and make a little effort. Fun does not equal useful.

people learn better when they are engaged in the subject. teachers need to exploit this by making interesting classes. they dont need to let kids run around doing whatever, but they need to find some way to engage students.

"life isnt fun" isnt a good way to teach a class.

Of course its not, but a class consists of up to 30 individuals. There is no possible way to "entertain" all of these at once. My country has been rich for quite a while. We are getting lazy. Both parents and kids. The new winners in my country is immigrants from eastern Asia. Japan/china. The reason they are the winners is NOT because their kids have a ton of fun in school, it is because their parents think school is IMPORTANT, and have demands of their kids.

Parents in my country are usually as lazy as their kids, and have a bad attitude to school. Thus their kids have a bad attitude and fail. Entertainment solves little. Attitude and ambition is the key. Both of which is not necessary when you are rich.

 

[nukethetuna]

I definitely did (do, I guess) take school for granted. Probably because it feels so mechanical (even the majority of college classes).
I just can't be motivated about it when it is so different in practice than what I expect a real forum to expand the mind to be.

 

[GenericAmerican]

They are...because it's almost impossible to fail in the public school systems since we don't want to hurt the child's feeling by telling them they are stupid.

 

[Chaza]

I take it for granted I know that for sure.

I mean I have two weeks until my first GCSE exam and I've done fuck all revision and I hardly care!

Loads of people don't but I'm on of the few who do take school for granted.

Actually loads of people I know take school for granted.

 

[Betancore]

I've attended public schools, a private school, and now a selective-entry school, and at each school, people have dramatically different views as to what school means to them. I think that at this age, it's too easy to think of yourself as invincible. To be idealistic and not really think about the future, or paying bills, or supporting yourself. At age 16, you don't really think to yourself, "Well, maybe I should study for this maths test otherwise I'll end up working at Maccas for the rest of my life."

My family has always blasted in my ear about how I'm going to starve to death and end up in a dead end job if I don't do well at school, and the school that I'm attending now also shares similar values. At the private school I used to go to, I don't think that many people were worried about not having a proper job in the future, since they were all bloody rich. And at the public school, well, it's sort of a huge mixing pot of people, and there were some who wanted to do well, and some who were just there because it was illegal for them not to be.

I don't think that you necessarily need schooling to be successful, because I'm sure there's a way for everyone to achieve their goals without formal education...somehow, but I reckon that if you're going to spend, what, 10, 11 years in compulsory education then you may as well learn something rather than piss about.