Do you think the new generation (us) is slacking off?

Question

I live in California and my parents are kinda strict on me with education. There are a lot of kids at my school and almost none of them seem to care as much about school as my parents said their generation did. The kids at my school don't put much time and effort into grades, activities to put on their applications to college, and just education in general. It may just be in California but I want to know from other kids my age if this is happening in other schools across the country or even worl. It may sound crazy, but to me it seems like the older generation is handing the world over to an immature younger generation(us) who won't be capable of maintaining the world as it is. Does anybody else see this? ( I'm in high school)

From now on in your posts, it would be helpful if you stated whether or not you live in California because I really only know about the situation not only confined to California, but the area i live in in California so it would be nice to know whether it was happening in other areas of California/The United States. Also instead of just cussing at our generation it would be nice if you could try to leave that out and answer with out it.

Another thing I think I've seen is that with the new generation slacking off and being less responsible it is also in a way becoming less violent, country to country. While gang violence is at an all-time high, and the war in the middle east is raging, the new generation will be less vulnerable to starting needless violence for ridiculous reasons. Teenagers that I know don't take religion as seriously and in places like the middle east where violence on a large scale is abroad, the younger generations are less influenced by past events which led to anger between countries. In some middle eastern schools kids have to play a game called Peacemaker where the goal is to mantain peace in the middle east, and I think that this is a very good example of how past hatreds ( blacks hating whites and vice versa, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc.) are starting to die out in the younger generations, and with that less violence to come.

Answer 1

the first post is right seriously we are all scared shitless about you and your generation. Mainly because it is so filled with uneducated lazy spoiled extremely emotional little brats. To many of your parents just want to be friends and not actual parents but that is not your fault but that still doesn't mean we are not afraid of the world ahead of us because of how you all act and the stupid **** ya'll say.

Answer 2

The current generation of high school students and younger has had everything handed to them. People born between 1990 and 1995 got the benefit of huge economic and technological growth. As a result they have more, while doing less to get it. All that STUFF is making their, and everyones, lives easier. Teens today don't KNOW HOW to do anything but slack off. They don't see the need to put effort into something like education because they haven't had to put much effort into anything. And, unfortunately, many parents in thier 30's and 40's aren't very involved/interested in their kids' lives making the problem even worse.

Answer 3

I think it would be a great mistake to misperceive the current generations lack of interest in education as a byproduct of laziness. Kids today have access to more information than their parents could have ever dreamed(internet)....many of them know that 'THE FUTURE' is not the same future their parents worked for. The world is changing drastically.....the US public school system is well behind.....the kids in the school system know this....why put effort into an ultimately futile activity? This is not a matter of the next generation being ready to take the reigns......It is much more a matter of them understanding why the past generation failed so miserably at world affairs and domestic policy. This is a complicated question.....most people don't deal with it......instead they do other things that make them happy.....possibly misunderstood as being innately lazy.....when in reality they're just very unsure.

Answer 4

Chow, this is something I worry about every single day. Now I'm just more worried, hehe. Because I'm not the only one seeing it.
We have become less tolerant in some ways, more tolerant in others. More intelligent in some ways, absolutely idiotic in many ways. I guess if we were to just stay consistent we would have a chance.

Answer 5

haha my dad jus had a lecture on how i spend too much tym 'behind a screen' n my education, trust my parents wudnt let me joke bout my eduation. buh yeah i do get scared sumtimes coz i gotta say a lot of our generation r dumbasses. plus side it can make u feel smarter

Answer 6

Yep were all doomed.

Answer 7

Trust me... we are afraid... very afraid!