I teach and have taught in quite a few schools - admittedly not in the UK or US - and I cannot help but wonder, this generation of kids and the children they'll have, what type of adults will they make?
I don't have a rose-tinted view of my youth, I'm at most ten years older than my pupils but these kids are, well very often they're dreadful. They hit teenage antics and problems at about ten, are jaded and bored by fifteen and can be so violent and vicious - which is increased by a pack-mentality.
I went to the kind of school I now teach at and ten years ago it was not like this. Even if I was a teen then, it was not like this.
So sometimes I worry, what is coming at us?
2007-03-01 03:25:31 · 10 answers · asked by Elle Dee 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
As you certainly know, they mostly become what the society (including, and specially, the parents) makes them grow up into. I am not blamming anyone in particular, nor will I, as most people already have their lifestyle adapted to what society demands of them... And this is as far as I will go on this subject for I believe this matter is much more complex then what just a few lines could describe.
I do share your concearns though... Even though youth as always been regarded as problematic (times change), I do think that it's changing at a to much fast paced rate...
2007-03-01 03:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by night 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure how this generation will turn out, but I can speak for myself as a youth. I see so much that needs to be changed and I have so many ideas about how to make this world a better place, and yet I lack the resources or opportunities to carry out any of these ideas. Society puts so much pressure on this generation's teenagers to do everything. You have to get straight A's in school to get any decent job, you have to work as well while you're in school and somewhere in there you're also supposed to find time to pursue your own interests and have a social life. It's like a rat race and everyone is just trying to get to their 'goal' and survive and we're starting to forget about humanity as a whole and what it means to be selfless. This is partly society's fault though in expecting us to manage it all and still have time for others. As a whole I think my generation will be a very open minded one - one that is much more accepting of other religions, ethnicities, cultures, and homosexuality.
2007-03-01 04:45:45 · answer #2 · answered by mels211 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i agree,I had my first job when I was 12. a Saturday job, now they want kids to stay on in eduction till they are in their 20s. If my 16 year old become ill at school she is not allowed to come home,there is no sick room available because of sharp objects! I believe that the government wants them to be dependant that way they are easier to handle,as to the violence I agree about this pack mentality, is that not down to them not being able to survive on their own? They walk around with the usual bottle of coke in their hand or designer water to create the image, you have to look cool. It is a nightmare and as to how they will survive all I can say is God knows.
2007-03-04 16:54:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Completely helpless. Nothing will ever get done, because it will always be someone else's responsibility. Everyone will be living off of welfare for a bit. But of course welfare will collapse, because there have to be contributors into the system, and these kids will not be contributors.
2007-03-01 04:07:45 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abusive.
These kids today are growing up thinking they are special simply because they breathe. They think everyone is out to please them and do what they want, when they want, how they want.
The girls are giving blow jobs on school buses in exchange for Money? reciprication? Glory? NO....just to please some boy so she can feel pretty!!!!
They are going to raise the generation that either starts the next revolution or destroys us.
2007-03-01 03:40:43 · answer #5 · answered by Lotus Phoenix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horace (BC 65-8) said:
"Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil."
2007-03-01 09:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by thunor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will be very intelligent and very under achieving. They are spoiled and will expect things to be given to them.
2007-03-01 03:32:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully they will grow up and change a bit.
2007-03-01 03:31:51 · answer #8 · answered by R.E.M.E. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems too horrible to imagine.
2007-03-01 03:42:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the next genaration will either be nice or really really really disturbed. im going on disturbed and u know what? im one of them.
2007-03-01 03:34:31 · answer #10 · answered by Mort 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋