Have you ever noticed that kids in high schools complain about every piece of homework or even class work they are handed.The teacher gets in front of the class and says "Today we are going to write a 5 paragraph essay" then the whole class starts so sigh and say things like "god" and "are you kidding" and "when is it due". Come on people, are you serious, it should take the normal high school student no longer than 5 minutes to get a basic outline for a 5 paragraph essay. My boyfriends brother comes in from school the other day with an essay assignment from his English teacher, it was a one page paper about a president and he was complaining like crazy that it was to hard. That is insane, how much information is there out in the world, in books, and online about all our presidents and thinks it's going to be hard to type one page about it. It just truly amazes me. The funny part is, is that the teachers, as much as they deny responsibility, are letting the students get away with being lazy. When I go to school, I don't want work, but I know that it's to be expected. Kids these days act surprised and offended like they are getting punished by getting homework. I actually think doing work at home helps you actually pay attention and learn what your trying to learn.
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Considering you ended your title in a preposition***
P.S.- It's not "kids these days", Try like...kids since the dawn of time.
That's still a dramatization, but at least it's more substantial them the one you presented.
~The Writer~
***comment edited by mvenus929 on Feb 29, 2008.
It is the present active indicative third person singular (in addition to a few other persons/numbers) form of the verb '[to] be'.
Perhaps you should reconsider HS grammar as well.
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I'll reconsider it while I'm sleeping through it.
I'm not the one preaching about the decadent lifestyle that is adolescent youth though.
Be more careful about making sweeping generalizations, because more often then not they are wrong.
Our society may not turn out as many "work-ready" individuals as say, china or japan, but at least our public school systems don't inspire group suicides like the ones prevalent in Asia.
Until a curriculum is created where students are allowed to focus solely on the subjects that interest them, then yes, kids will come home bitching and moaning, because as far as they know, they will never be held down with a gun and be asked to name off the population density of San Marino.
~The Writer~
Thanks for the help with that is thing, I didn't realize when I wrote that, *** was going to come and complain about my spelling, even though spelling wasn't what I was complaining about. ***
*** Comment edited for TOS violation by mvenus929 on Feb 29, 2008.
No. You were complaining about complaining.
Which is kind of hypocritical.
~The Writer~
We're all minimalists. It's human nature to be lazy.
This is so untrue, it's not our nature to be lazy, it's our nature, to build, and learn, and communicate. It's each persons individual choice to be lazy. You could wake up in the morning and start making an entire crop if you wanted to, but instead we just wake up, go to work/school, come home, sit in front of the tube for a minute, and rest. That would be a typical day for a lot of people. I just think we would all be a little better off if each of us would try and be more productive. Especially the younger ones because eventually there going to be running this place.
Ok I'll admit that usually I am one of those students that groans when a teacher hands out an assignment.... but I wouldn't go so far as to say I don't know what work is. I definately do know what work is. I know what it is like to wake up at 6:30 in the morning, go to school for 6 hours, go directly to work, go home, have supper, then do hw till midnight or later, then sleep for about 6 hrs or less, and start the day over. On top of this I'm trying to keep up with scholarships so I'm not in debt when I go to college, and I've been doing a lot of babysitting and community service. Please, please, please don't EVER tell me that I don't know what work is.
I agree that students are exceptionally lazy today, if not in the world, or the USA, then in my specific city. Kids are constantly being spoiled by mommy and daddy, never getting spanked, never getting in trouble for grades- a good chunk of my algebra class in Freshman year failed because they were too lazy to do their work. I believe maybe four people passed the class. I was one of them and I passed with a B-. It didn't take that much effort, I usually didn't do well on tests, I flunked the final (hard), but I passed because I put forth a little bit of my time. The rest of the class didn't bother, and ultimately failed.
I'm tutoring a friend of mine in English and she is one of those groaners who can't take time away from playing video games to write a simple essay. Haha, it is so hard to motivate her. I take time almost daily to go to her house, yank her from her computer, and sit her down to do her homework. It makes me glad though, because she's getting better, and her grade has risen from a 30% to a 75%. :)
All kids need now a days are parents or teachers (or friends) who will get them motivated and inspired. :)
I think some of us are taking the opinions of others WAY too seriously.
I agree. A kid whining about a one page paper is preposterous.
If they get to college and whine about papers, they'll flunk out.
I do think it's a bit of a generalization saying that no high school student knows what work is and can do work without complaining. I myself, though I don't like to have the extra work-load, sometimes, understand that school and education is terribly important. I don't always do some of the easier homework, but I do most of it. And even when I don't do it, I don't complain that it was too hard or too much.
Just that I was too lazy to do it.
But I agree, there are many whiney "THIS HOMEWORK IS SOOOOOO GAY AND HARD AND STUPID AND I DON'T WANNA" students out there.
"My Shoes Are On The Ground, But My Feet Are In The Air."
-Katt Martin.... whenever... who the crap knows what this girl is talking about anyway?
Your right on some levels, but not all the way.
You're right that most kids today complain about assignments like they are the end of the world. I groan when I have to write an essay too. But thats because I have to balance school, my job, volunteering, yearbook, and a million other things at once.
To say that high school kids don't know what work is, is like saying a pack mule doesn't know what the word "load" means. Being an active high school senior means a LOT of work. To pull of A's and do the other million things that are important for a good future kinda wears down on you.
Not that I'm complaining or anything....
But on the other hand, we do like to complain, and there are always those that complain over the littlest things and just don't like to do work. So your right about your points, but be careful of the generalizations. Because I assure you that some of us do WORK!
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syndactl
highshcool work given out by some teachers can be quite hard sometimes and people might have obligations after school. i know i do. yet if you think about it, the four years you have highschool are some of the best years of your life. ive got all the rest of my life to work.
-life is a sexually transmitted disease-
I mean, i understand just as much as everyone else that students have obligations just as well as adults, but honestly, i'm sure it can all be handled. We have 24 hours in the day and students most of all want to complain that they have to much to do, if you prioritize and balance everything out, i'm sure you could do homework and have a job at the same time. Adults have 3 kids and jobs, and bills, and other things too.
I'm in HS, and I take AP US History, AP American Lit, AP Calc, and regular Chem. Because I suck horribly at any and all sciences. I know how to work. I work my butt off in all of those classes. Add on first chair in the highest band, lead soloist in the top jazz band, Drum Major of the marching, president of the FFEA club, class representative, and co captian of the varsity lacrosse team, and try to imagine when i have time to get straight A's? At 3 in the morning, thats when. I personally never complain when a teacher gives an assignment, and being in AP classes no one realy does, except a few exceptions, but they're the ones who won't pass the college board exams. But then when I go to my Chem class, the IQ drops about 90 points. no lie. They complain about everything, even notes, even if the notes are already printed out and the teacher just wants us to read over them. One girl even said we should drain the ocean into outter space to get rid of global warming. So I know what you mean about the work ethic in most high school students. But maybe you're just not looking in the right places.
Ok, so because people have things to do outside of school that means that they have to slack and complain about doing things while they are in school? Ok, yeah some teachers give to much work, and yeah people of obligations outside of school, but with this coming generation, I think that more of the kids are going to school and just using it like a social place, so obviously they are going to have work to take home, but honestly if you use every minute of the 6 hours you are in school than im going to bet that the amount of homework you have at the end of the day isn't nearly as much. I hear kids say how they use there time "wisely" just like the teachers says and really, they don't. There is a lot more work and information that could be given out and learned before the 6 hours is up.
You are proven wrong with your ridiculous overgeneralizations about highschool students. It is not fair to say that we don't work hard when many of us do. The running start program has taught many highschool kids how to work for grades and not just have them handed to them as it is sometimes in highschool. I have been going to commmunity college for two years now and I think that I know how to work hard for things. But I am a senior in highschool so does that make me lazy? Because according to your blog, appearantly it does.
As a high school senior, please take my word for it that I know what work is. I am a full time student yet I also hold a job that demands 45-60 hours a week. When I'm not in school taking advanced placement and college-level classes, I am vice president of my school's student government. I am also involved in a long list of activities including my church youth group and my county's academic league. While it's true that there is an epidemic of laziness in this nation, it is not solely among the high school kids. I'm far more concerned with the 4-12 crowd, because they can't seem to pull themselves off their couches and go outside to play, which is furthermore an indicator of apathetic parenting. Just thought you should know that some of us are working as hard as we can, and I, for one, don't have a lot of choice in the matter. It's not because I'm an over-achiever; I just want to survive in an increasingly demanding world.