Desperation!! Please help =[

[AKA_Monet]

I have a question for all the regular GCers:

These new crop of kids poppin up in here left and right, they were born sometime between 1987-1991....

Like, I remember those years distinctly... Which I can accept makes me OLD

But are they a bunch of wussies cry baby wannabes massive MTV flux Oprahisms raised on too much Ritalin and never ass whooped for being bad?

I mean, like hayle, what do we really owe them because they choose not to understand? They are disrespectful, trite, mean-spirited, simple-minded and spoiled.

What is going to happen when the chit hits the fan about life and it ain't all what it is crapped up to be? Are they jumpers or injectors?

We are getting a lot of kids screaming in here and we are asked to congenial and nice and helpful. But there is some much stupidity, assininity and inanity I can take when I realize that we cannot do favors for the permenently impaired...

It isn't just this one, the kid that posted the dumb stuff on Greek Life, those that post the legitimacy of their drive by organizations based on poor research and gross assumptions.

I only ask because I am encountering these attitudes in the courses I teach at a large-scale University...

Please explain it to me: here or via PM?

I would like to think I am still "hip" in my own way...

[AlexMack]

Monet...no disrespect, but...WHAT??

[LPIDelta]

Monet--you're still hip, but this generation of kids has been raised and sheltered by parents who demand everything for them, and so they have a sense of entitlement that may not be deserved. Their relationships with their friends are online and they communicate in "text lingo" in all forums--forgetting that others were not raised the same way. They expect us to adjust to them, and not vice versa.

I've done some research and I, too, am worried that this generation will be incapable of making decisions for themselves. I see that when the going gets tough, they give up and find something else to do with their time that they consider "more valuable". At the same time, I see them doing lots of great things which makes me feel better and they seem to place academics and jobs as a priority at school--although they usually do things differently that I would.

Ok...this is a major derailment! :O) But the point is--its not you.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by Heather17

Monet--you're still hip, but this generation of kids has been raised and sheltered by parents who demand everything for them, and so they have a sense of entitlement that may not be deserved. Their relationships with their friends are online and they communicate in "text lingo" in all forums--forgetting that others were not raised the same way. They expect us to adjust to them, and not vice versa.

I've done some research and I, too, am worried that this generation will be incapable of making decisions for themselves. I see that when the going gets tough, they give up and find something else to do with their time that they consider "more valuable". At the same time, I see them doing lots of great things which makes me feel better and they seem to place academics and jobs as a priority at school--although they usually do things differently that I would.

Ok...this is a major derailment! :O) But the point is--its not you.

Thanks Heather...

I agree and I see these kids nowadays Text messaging and "iPoding" their lives away, devoid of ANY social interaction. Bar someone from truely interacting with me beyond 5 seconds... These will be our future physicians and lawyers. With absolutely a complete loss of historical reference or respect for it.

I have even had kids come crying to me because they "hear" or "see" some things that are "socially vile" and do not get why it would ever happen... The funny part is I am explaining it to them like my mother explained it me...

The thing is no one will adjust for them and they will flunk school. The academic programs in which I participate are already noticing that they cannot do collegiate level of work... Even explained about their academic pre-college background, makes no difference to college professors in nearly all fields. Even in Art or Music, one still has to write essays...

It's like we will be losing a generation to mediocrity for their lack of college prep...

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

I only ask because I am encountering these attitudes in the courses I teach at a large-scale University...

Dude, I didn't know you teach at an university. I bet there's never a dull moment in class...

[1908Revelations]

I sould have quoted the OP's full message.


To the OP
Seriously.....when you get to college you will see that you will be sooo busy that you will lose interest in the 'kid'

The reason we were shocked at the word 'kid' is b/c normally people don't refer to thier SO or not so SOs as kids.