What happened to this generation? — Personal Experience

This generation has no hope.

We are heading into a disaster if Gen Alpha and Gen Z are the people who will be running our society.

As someone who interacts with (and is) Gen Z and Gen Alpha daily, there are many problems that we’ll have to fix.

Some kids have the potential to succeed. Some kids are special and don’t have the many problems I will name. But the number of these kids is small.

A big problem is just how political and stubborn children are.

Since the Israel-Gaza war, pro-Palestinian comments have flooded my school, and that’s fine.

The problem is that they’re so unwilling to listen to anything that goes against their beliefs.

“If you support Israel, you support genocide,” without listening to any possible other argument.

I stand pretty centrist on the issue, where I support Palestine but not Hamas, and I’m not going to boycott a brand. But to my classmates, I support genocide.

It’s sad seeing how unwilling they are to even listen to an argument that goes against their own.

While they can say whatever they want, they don’t even support their arguments with facts. Sometimes, they just make racist comments towards Israelis.

Another big problem, they don’t have any talent.

Not only can they back up what they say, they can’t do anything in particular.

Most don’t do anything more than scroll through social media all day. Maybe they do one or two extracurriculars, but most lack skills.

Out of the 25 or 26 people in my class, 4 played an instrument (including myself). Two of them later left the school.

Perhaps the only talent that’s widespread at my school is sports, but no one is particularly good at a sport.

Most people who are good at a sport are terrible at everything else.

Especially for grades.

Most people are one or two years behind in multiple subjects, especially math and science.

Considering how easily the teachers go on with the students, it’s genuinely shocking.

Most people are getting B’s out of pity.

Their attention span is also that of a goldfish.

Nobody can concentrate during the lesson, and good luck spotting one day that a student didn’t use their phone at least once.

Another big problem in my school is how much racism goes around, but I talk about this in a different article:

https://vocal.media/education/being-chinese-in-a-brown-school-no-one-cares-anymore

So why is any of this happening?

I believe it’s the parenting style of the millennials and, to some extent, Gen Z.

I don’t believe in hitting your kid, but millennials need to discipline their kids more.

Nowadays, a kid can be the most obnoxious kid possible, get terrible grades, and the parent may not care.

I believe that the perfect parenting style is strict but isn’t overly controlling or hits their children.

Setting screen time limits on devices, pushing children to study, and encouraging healthy behaviour & extracurriculars can be very helpful to children.

It’s so sad to see how little parents care about their children’s behaviour and skills nowadays.

I don’t believe the world is hopeless.

Some children are outliers who will go on to succeed.

Our future is in our children’s hands.

We can encourage them to do great things.

But if we don’t make a change in the way that we raise our children. None of this may happen.

From what I see, the future is doomed.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Things can change.

Let’s bring greatness to our children.

Let’s bring them into the future and lead the world into new things.

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