New Generation of Kids?

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bhaines

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Today I started as a teachers assistant for a freshmen biology class at my high school. It is a pretty awful class and the teacher doesn't have a good handle on them. When she left the room for literally 1 minute, a group of them started snorting smarties because they thought it would make them smarter. Then they began to dance around the classroom cursing like crazy. I don't know if this is normal behavior for young teens, or are kids just total weirdos nowadays?
 
Smarties? nah - if you can convince them to snort Pop Rocks you might be on to something.
 
If you hold a package of smarties at one end and shake it vigorously back and forth for a long time the whole package will eventually turn into powder. You can then open one end and inhale and then exhale a little poof of smartie dust so it looks like you're smoking smarties. If done correctly it can prove to be a solid 5 minutes of entertainment that completely ruins a pack of candy
 
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Today I started as a teachers assistant for a freshmen biology class at my high school. It is a pretty awful class and the teacher doesn't have a good handle on them. When she left the room for literally 1 minute, a group of them started snorting smarties because they thought it would make them smarter. Then they began to dance around the classroom cursing like crazy. I don't know if this is normal behavior for young teens, or are kids just total weirdos nowadays?
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We always used to dare each other to snort pepper.
 
Lol I remember kids doing this in 8th grade. And they "smoked" them. Then we had an assembly and a doctor came in and explained how that the sugar collects in your sinuses and you can get maggots in your sinuses and everyone stopped. His videos helped
 
13371048:no_steeze said:
If you hold a package of smarties at one end and shake it vigorously back and forth for a long time the whole package will eventually turn into powder. You can then open one end and inhale and then exhale a little poof of smartie dust so it looks like you're smoking smarties. If done correctly it can prove to be a solid 5 minutes of entertainment that completely ruins a pack of candy
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Hard to do with Canadian smarties
 
soo if youre the teachers assistant, shouldnt you have told them to get back in their seats and behave? They were testing to see if you were a push over. You failed. Now the wont listen to you. You need to regain your dominance. And dont be afraid to bend one over your knee with a ruler for public demonstration
 
13371067:pat_in_the_hat said:
soo if youre the teachers assistant, shouldnt you have told them to get back in their seats and behave? They were testing to see if you were a push over. You failed. Now the wont listen to you. You need to regain your dominance. And dont be afraid to bend one over your knee with a ruler for public demonstration
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Some kids are too far gone for that. There were a couple TA's that we had in HS that I am suprised if they continued teaching after dealing with our class. I can't even fathom how some people could be so disrespectful and still go home at the end of the day not feeling like a complete piece of shit.
 
Speaking of doing stupid stuff with candy, we had one of my friends eat an entire bag of shock tarts in one go. It was pretty amusing. That was like eighth grade or something.

What's different about canadian smarties compared to american ones?
 
13371099:DrZoidberg said:
Speaking of doing stupid stuff with candy, we had one of my friends eat an entire bag of shock tarts in one go. It was pretty amusing. That was like eighth grade or something.

What's different about canadian smarties compared to american ones?
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Pretty much like M&Ms
 
13371049:JordanButtfart said:
Are your students black? That might explain it..
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Out of line and not funny.

I hate to be a social justice warrior but come on, man.

To OP, kids being kids. Sucks to be locked up all day "learning". It's more like babysitting while the parents work all day. The cycle repeatsssssssssssssssssssssssssss
 
its the "get off my lawn" syndrome. each generation feels like they were better behaved and didnt take shit for granted like the next one does. BUT, the internet and social media, 16 and pregnant, miley cyrus and all that smut is definately messing with kids and making them little shits.
 
Funny that we are already using terms and references to "the next generation of children" even generation Z. Millennials (anyone born after 1980) generation is already being capped post 2000 birth. Is it me, or generations are zooming ahead in knowledge, connectivity and science based teaching. We are applying new technology, new techniques of delivery that make post 2000 population have a handle faster on information.

On the other side, kids arent kids anymore. I don't see 8 to 10 year old kids playing street hockey before bedtime or climbing trees in a park. Things I loved to do as a kid are being replaced by performance and parent self gratification attitude. Since most Millennial began to be raised in an information, fast pace life; it seems most never really "grew up". They search to be children again. Then raise a child or two in that setting.

I have to say the same about my last year in high school. I was quit disgusted how the year after us forced certain teachers to quit. They played tag in the hall, cursed at teachers, broke shit all the time and seemed to have no discipline at all. Maybe they come in batches...
 
Yeah I bet kids now are way shittier than they've ever been, just like how nobody has ever complained about the generation that came after them.

Kids are dumb and they do shitty things all the time. That's how it's always been. Cool it dude
 
on the freestyle team I coached last year there were 7th graders who would take their dad's cigarettes, empty them, then fill them with tea and smoke the tea cigarette
 
13371188:cabdriver said:
on the freestyle team I coached last year there were 7th graders who would take their dad's cigarettes, empty them, then fill them with tea and smoke the tea cigarette
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LOL so hard at the tobacco prevention program.
 
13371133:freestyler540 said:
Funny that we are already using terms and references to "the next generation of children" even generation Z. Millennials (anyone born after 1980) generation is already being capped post 2000 birth. Is it me, or generations are zooming ahead in knowledge, connectivity and science based teaching. We are applying new technology, new techniques of delivery that make post 2000 population have a handle faster on information.

On the other side, kids arent kids anymore. I don't see 8 to 10 year old kids playing street hockey before bedtime or climbing trees in a park. Things I loved to do as a kid are being replaced by performance and parent self gratification attitude. Since most Millennial began to be raised in an information, fast pace life; it seems most never really "grew up". They search to be children again. Then raise a child or two in that setting.

I have to say the same about my last year in high school. I was quit disgusted how the year after us forced certain teachers to quit. They played tag in the hall, cursed at teachers, broke shit all the time and seemed to have no discipline at all. Maybe they come in batches...
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Now to be fair, there's major changes between all generations, you can't generalize too much based off of short term data.

I mean sure to me as a 1979 born guy, I see how much kids have changed from my youth. Hell, you didn't even think about wearing a helmet when you were riding a bike or racing a slalom course. Nobody did. Parents carried you in a baby carrier skiing to get you started. Nowadays you'd get arrested for both of those things.

However if you scale back to my father's generation, it was commonplace to just let your 8 year old run out the door and expect they'd eventually come back around dinner time because they were hungry. If you needed wood chopped to be warm, you bet your ass my mother's dad was sending the girls out to hack away at that shit with an axe. If there was crows fucking up the garden, send the girls out with the shotgun.

Scale back from that and (especially in America) I'm sure the kids were learning how to beat the slaves into submission.

So I never totally buy into this "Society is getting worse" business. Times are changing and every generation is presented with new challenges and new opportunities. Some good, some bad - but mostly all in the progress of the human race going forward.
 
It isn't necessarily linear though. You could improve to a point and then begin to go the other direction.

Ignorance is being embraced these days. I think that says a lot about a society.
 
When I was in 9th grade bio me and my friends got kicked out of class, and we were bored so we dared the dumb one the snort some sawdust. He did it.
 
13371575:Mr.Bishop said:
Now to be fair, there's major changes between all generations, you can't generalize too much based off of short term data.

I mean sure to me as a 1979 born guy, I see how much kids have changed from my youth. Hell, you didn't even think about wearing a helmet when you were riding a bike or racing a slalom course. Nobody did. Parents carried you in a baby carrier skiing to get you started. Nowadays you'd get arrested for both of those things.

However if you scale back to my father's generation, it was commonplace to just let your 8 year old run out the door and expect they'd eventually come back around dinner time because they were hungry. If you needed wood chopped to be warm, you bet your ass my mother's dad was sending the girls out to hack away at that shit with an axe. If there was crows fucking up the garden, send the girls out with the shotgun.

Scale back from that and (especially in America) I'm sure the kids were learning how to beat the slaves into submission.

So I never totally buy into this "Society is getting worse" business. Times are changing and every generation is presented with new challenges and new opportunities. Some good, some bad - but mostly all in the progress of the human race going forward.
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We can look at data to analyse and compare if the younger generation has it better. The standard of living has never been higher, education is on the rise and family income has increased since 1979. We can agree that this generation has all the tools it needs to thrive and prosper.

I cant blame youth too much for stupidity. I tend to go one generation ahead; they raised the next generation. But what I can complain about is the pressure from society to children to become perfect. It comes through different channel; advertisement, media, social media... Kids have never been committing suicide like ever before! They are pumped with drugs if they can t concentrate like adults, put down when they fail a test... I dont feel like kids are worse off than my generation or the previous, but the problems have definitely changed.
 
13371711:freestyler540 said:
We can look at data to analyse and compare if the younger generation has it better. The standard of living has never been higher, education is on the rise and family income has increased since 1979. We can agree that this generation has all the tools it needs to thrive and prosper.

I cant blame youth too much for stupidity. I tend to go one generation ahead; they raised the next generation. But what I can complain about is the pressure from society to children to become perfect. It comes through different channel; advertisement, media, social media... Kids have never been committing suicide like ever before! They are pumped with drugs if they can t concentrate like adults, put down when they fail a test... I dont feel like kids are worse off than my generation or the previous, but the problems have definitely changed.
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I can definitely get behind there being way too much pressure to be perfect. That is one thing that definitely bugs me about the whole thing... I mean really when did it become so freaking important to not fuck up? Everyone fucks up. EVERYONE. Hell even if you are what people would call perfect, for sure you're a fuckup at a bunch of stuff.

There definitely needs to be less pressure and more of a turn to reality on that kind of shit.
 
13371711:freestyler540 said:
We can look at data to analyse and compare if the younger generation has it better. The standard of living has never been higher, education is on the rise and family income has increased since 1979. We can agree that this generation has all the tools it needs to thrive and prosper.

I cant blame youth too much for stupidity. I tend to go one generation ahead; they raised the next generation. But what I can complain about is the pressure from society to children to become perfect. It comes through different channel; advertisement, media, social media... Kids have never been committing suicide like ever before! They are pumped with drugs if they can t concentrate like adults, put down when they fail a test... I dont feel like kids are worse off than my generation or the previous, but the problems have definitely changed.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-millennials-well-educated-but-unskilled/
 
13371711:freestyler540 said:
We can look at data to analyse and compare if the younger generation has it better. The standard of living has never been higher, education is on the rise and family income has increased since 1979. We can agree that this generation has all the tools it needs to thrive and prosper.

I cant blame youth too much for stupidity. I tend to go one generation ahead; they raised the next generation. But what I can complain about is the pressure from society to children to become perfect. It comes through different channel; advertisement, media, social media... Kids have never been committing suicide like ever before! They are pumped with drugs if they can t concentrate like adults, put down when they fail a test... I dont feel like kids are worse off than my generation or the previous, but the problems have definitely changed.
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Naturally, the average family income has been on the rise since 1979. Back in 79' women took on the responsibility of being a stay at home mom. In the 90's a few mothers started pursuing professional careers and left the home. Not to mention it was the best economy the world has ever seen.

After 2008, I would venture to guess that MOST women at least have a part-time job because of the recession and needing to supplement the pay cuts that most men took. Now people are working twice as hard because companies have scaled back their workforce and now the employees are doing the work of several individuals.

This presents a problem to the new graduates... They have a major learning curve to learn a new industry and try and keep up with the older workers that are accustom to the high standards that are set. Not to mention that the kids are total shitheads because they are raised in the daycare system where they can basically get away with murder.
 
13371862:Steezy_IN_KC said:
Naturally, the average family income has been on the rise since 1979. Back in 79' women took on the responsibility of being a stay at home mom. In the 90's a few mothers started pursuing professional careers and left the home. Not to mention it was the best economy the world has ever seen.

After 2008, I would venture to guess that MOST women at least have a part-time job because of the recession and needing to supplement the pay cuts that most men took. Now people are working twice as hard because companies have scaled back their workforce and now the employees are doing the work of several individuals.

This presents a problem to the new graduates... They have a major learning curve to learn a new industry and try and keep up with the older workers that are accustom to the high standards that are set. Not to mention that the kids are total shitheads because they are raised in the daycare system where they can basically get away with murder.
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I have to dissagree with the 2 first paragraphs. There is no correlation between children been raised with stay-at-home moms and bratty behavior. It has nothing to do with income class or same sex parents. Women did not cause this problem, you have to get that in your head. Men and women should be ideologically equal in a relationship and in professional life. Its how your raise a kid that makes a difference, no who raises the kid.

The previous generation are not smarter, better or stronger than us. We are young, innovative and creative. We even took off with 2 times more knowledge than they ever had. They just lived a lot longer than their parents. They are healthier than their parents and still dont want to leave the workforce. Thats fine. But after 2008, a lot of people lost their jobs; and since older people are often seen as wiser and more experienced, they will get any title without education. Grades determine how hard you work, how quick you are with information and how you solve problems...wait, no...my parent deeply believe that.

So Millenials are pissed. We are promised the world by our parents if we work hard. We did, and a market crash is what we got. Instead of being creative and dealing with the problem, we do what we were taught to do; cry until we get it...
 
13371968:freestyler540 said:
I have to dissagree with the 2 first paragraphs. There is no correlation between children been raised with stay-at-home moms and bratty behavior. It has nothing to do with income class or same sex parents. Women did not cause this problem, you have to get that in your head. Men and women should be ideologically equal in a relationship and in professional life. Its how your raise a kid that makes a difference, no who raises the kid.

The previous generation are not smarter, better or stronger than us. We are young, innovative and creative. We even took off with 2 times more knowledge than they ever had. They just lived a lot longer than their parents. They are healthier than their parents and still dont want to leave the workforce. Thats fine. But after 2008, a lot of people lost their jobs; and since older people are often seen as wiser and more experienced, they will get any title without education. Grades determine how hard you work, how quick you are with information and how you solve problems...wait, no...my parent deeply believe that.

So Millenials are pissed. We are promised the world by our parents if we work hard. We did, and a market crash is what we got. Instead of being creative and dealing with the problem, we do what we were taught to do; cry until we get it...
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You've misunderstood me. I never once said that women caused this problem... and I definitely didn't mention anything about same-sex parents or whatever other gender rules you want to put in my mouth.

I was simply pointing out that kids spend WAY more time under the supervision of adults other than their own parents, also known as daycare. This is why kids are shitheads. A lack of discipline that stems from the fact that parents (male, female or both) have to work to make more money to support the family.

Older generation =/= smarter than this generation. Technology is on our side and that's our advantage. Back in the day interviews would ask you if you knew the answer. Today they ask you questions to figure out if you know how to find an answer.
 
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