That's very true. They're changing the schedule in my school. Never once thought to ask the students what they think of it.
They act like the students are the most important people there, but if you're going to do something major like rearrange the schedule, you should at least query the students to see what they like, so that everyone is at maximum efficiency and knows exactly what it'll be like. I had no idea what the schedule would be like until I got my class order *yesterday*, and school starts TOMORROW.
...on the flip side, have you considered the "adults" are trying to find the best way to coexist with the upcoming generation which has its own culture and values.
Labeling the new generation with ways that they "used" to act is the worst way to try to coexist. If there's a gigantic war going on and two less-than-adequate opponents butting heads in an election, teenagers are not going to act like it's fucking Lazytown in here.
Each generation has it's own culture due to the climate in which they grew up. That's just sociology. The author of the article is offended by one generation trying to understand another generation in it's own way.
Really I think the thing she is missing is previous generations tended not to bother to understand, but just criticized the upcoming generation. She is offended by the effort.
sociology is generalizing about the next generation?
then what the fuck is the point?
right now we have iPhones, drones, and hover boards. 2 generations from now we are not going to have the exact same things as right now. why should we expect that generation to be the exact same as this one?
I have literally no idea why it is so upsetting that an adult wrote an article to help other adults talk to teens. (Also yes, sociology is largely generalization about of cultures and subcultures)
You don't have the right to say that, everyone is different, your generation is different than our generation, your time growing up is different than our time, we are exposed to more than you were because we have the Internet to see all of this stuff, it's all over the news, you can't say that we don't know anything, because it's so much easier for us to understand now because you only have to do a small search to see gruesome images of things and for people to explain it, we know these things and we understand these things, you can't say we don't because you grew up in a different time, you might have been our age once but that doesn't mean you were the same as we are now
Doesn't mean I don't either, my point is you can't say someone doesn't understand something because of age after a certain point, you don't know what people do and don't understand because you aren't that person and you can only grow up in one generation, all generations are different, we are constantly evolving and constantly inventing new and better technology, over time things become easier to understand its part of learning and growing up, not only as an individual but as a species, because one generation didn't understand something when they were kids doesn't mean the generation that will come after them won't understand it, or the one after them, and so on,
It's not impossible to parse what someone understands, and you can definitely make some generalizations based on age. Older people aren't just basing what younger people understand based on what they understood when they were that age.
It was more of poor wording on my part for my first few comments, this is really just going on too long and my point was that the Guest who posted was wrong about people around my age "not knowing anything", because the way he worded it made it sound very shitty and it pissed me off because it sounded condescending towards my generation, I am and was simply trying to prove that he was wrong and defend my generation.
Well your age group (assuming you're around 16) obviously doesn't know absolutely nothing, but they do tend to think they're a lot more knowledgeable than they actually are. The vast majority of people who look back at their teens tend to realize they acted like idiots quite a bit back then. Regardless, I'm sure guest wasn't actually being literal in the first place.
They act like the students are the most important people there, but if you're going to do something major like rearrange the schedule, you should at least query the students to see what they like, so that everyone is at maximum efficiency and knows exactly what it'll be like. I had no idea what the schedule would be like until I got my class order *yesterday*, and school starts TOMORROW.
then what the fuck is the point?
right now we have iPhones, drones, and hover boards. 2 generations from now we are not going to have the exact same things as right now. why should we expect that generation to be the exact same as this one?
>not immature and irrational
Top kek. She even admits they're angry at everything.
Apart from the eras when English was all weird and shit.