Why aren't students more inquisitive?
@Radicalpatriot (665)
United States
February 28, 2007 7:34am CST
Saw something interesting yesterday at a popular local buffet-style restaurant: Tables full of young people socializing. At one table was a bunch of girls. At another table across the room were guys. All looked like they were from stable families; well-dressed, armed with all manner of cell phones and visiting madly. The only problem was that is was almost 2 p.m. during a school day. Obviously, cutting class en masse. Now this has long been an issue, but I just wonder: Why are students dead to actual learning? All they want to do is hang out with each other and exchange meaningless conversaton, text-messaging endlessly, even if they're sitting next to each other. And here on Mylot.com, I notice students from all over the world doing the same thing -- essentially rejecting education and doing whatever they want, wasting precious time and resources and accomplishing nothing productive. It's time for young people to wake up and realize that their parents won't carry them forever. They need to get a life, and soon, before it's too late.
3 responses
@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
28 Feb 07
Yes this is true I have seen too many students doing this in my country as well wasting precious time and not going to school, when their parents think that this is where they are wake up to your child if I was the parent I would call into the school just to check up now and again that my children were actually attending school and were they are supposed to be.
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Mar 07
My sons school allowed seniors to go leave after they were done with their classes, as it turns our many seniors, at least in NY can get away with being in school a 1/2 day.
When I was in high school, I think I had 1 semester where I had a study hall every other day, how they can get away with a 1/2 day of school is beyond me.
Maybe we need tougher requirements to graduate.
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
1 Mar 07
This is the result of the wonderful system we have today after removing discipline. We have nothing to force those kids to go to school.
The reality of the world is that no kid, no teenager and no adult for that matter... will do something that they don't feel like doing... unless they are forced to do it.
And how do we force them to do it... by punishing them.
We force adults to do things by fining them... which hurt their finances. But kids don't have money... so we have to go back to basics.
Which explain why... we cannot give the same freedom to teenagers than what we give to adults. Adults can pay for their mistakes... but teenagers can't.
It is not the teenagers who need to get a life. It is the parents of those teenagers who need a wake up call. They made a mistake by abolishing discipline. Now they need to fix it by re-introducing it.
