I feel like I am living in a dystopian world. I am supervising
teenagers at a local high school and they have an assignment
in Google Classroom, so all I have to do is take roll and
stand back and wait for the magic to happen.
However, this generation of students aren't very magical.
They have smart phones that give them the illusion of
having all the answers right in their little hands.
Students these days are incredibly naive and clueless.
Earlier today we had a presentation: Run, Hide, Fight.
The point was to try to imbue these smart- phone- alecks with
survival skills. Isn't it innate that when a human feels threatened
they do those things automatically? Who dumbed these
youngsters down? Public school? Or perhaps the entire culture.
When the nightly news hawks the next $1000. dollar
Apple phone and the schools arm their students with their
own Chrome Books, have we gone too far?
Some capitalists (aka 1 percenters) are getting rich by sucking
those below them dry. The ad industry propagandizes not keeping up
with the Jones's so much as taking over the world.
Video games and other Internet time stealers, make this
new crop of teens believe they can get/have whatever they
want. And therein lies the problem of entitlement and lack
of appreciation for anything given or done for them.
They have been taught that they can have the best of everything.
Shame on the adults who didn't bother to give them some clue.
Teachers agonize over the future of our country because
the number of responsible young people has shrunk significantly.
Who's going to run things when these folks are supposed to
take over? Baby Boomers are living longer, but how the heck
long can they live?
Some of us try to warn the brighter ones, but the number of
conscious ones is shrinking. Will this be looked back on
as a Dark Age in our history?
It is disheartening to me how many times young people wail
when they are asked to to read.
Reading passes information acquired by one generation on to
next so they won't have to reinvent the wheel and more important
things. Some examples of what could be lost: Essential services
like medicine and law could founder within the next couple decades
if there are only a few people who are ready, willing and able to
carry that torch. Police and Fire fighters. And you can forget about
Shakespeare!
Does anybody else see a crisis brewing when kids nowadays need
to be taught how to survive a school shooting?
.This brings me to Darwin's
Natural Selection. When I listened
to a colleague explain the power point regarding their survival
I sensed an overall boredom. Survival skills should be inherent.
It's no joke how many people die in car crashes while trying to text.
People are even falling down holes intended for maintenance workers.
If a man-hole cover is off and someone on their phone is walking
in that general direction, is it okay to holler a warning? Remind me again,
Why did we get rid of one room schools? Raintreepoet, pondering.
