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by Redbird from FOX 2 Newsroom

Last Post 393 days, 6 hours Ago


This video has attracted lots of attention on the web.

What do you think?

 

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harp read my blog view my photos
Oct 29, 2007 | 11:09 AM

I watched the whole thing but I not understand it???

sarcasticdragon
Oct 29, 2007 | 11:25 AM

Poor babies. Can't you just see their pain?

Someone is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to watch TV, buy cell phones, play vides games, go into chat rooms, and buy expensive laptops.

Here is some advise,
Hang up your cell phone, close your laptop, turn off the TV, pay attention to your teachers, open that $100 dollar textbook and try actually reading it, do you assignments and stop acting like your life is just SO unfair.

Try GROWING UP. Problem solved.

TheShan2007 read my blog
Oct 29, 2007 | 12:10 PM

Harp,

Me neither. I didn't know what the point was.

sarcastic,

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most of it seemed about right. Seven hours a sleep a night is more than a lot of people get.

And yes, a laptop DOES cost more than some people make in a year. So, be GRATEFUL that you HAVE ONE!

This me-me-me generation will NEVER know what it is like to REALLY try and make something of yourself and of your life. Our great-great grand fathers do. Today's youth lives in the lap of luxary and has the NERVE to complain.

Theses brats are beyond lucky to be born in a country where they have the freedom to do, live, eat, listen to and say WHATEVER they WANT. They should be thanking God every
day that they are Americans and have the rights AND priveledges that THAT brings.

That's what I think of the video.

mincooper read my blog
Oct 29, 2007 | 12:27 PM

I am not really sure what you can do on the internet for 3 hours. I get bore withink 10 minutes. Just sad, we are teaching kids to be more tech advanced and less manners and social skills.

snoopydad24 read my blog view my photos
Oct 29, 2007 | 1:43 PM

As I see this I can clearly see the message the producer and students are sending.

How will this class benefit me when I get a job?”

I my blog Are we really educating our students? I was trying to get people to state what should schools be teaching to provide students a skill in the workforce. As an educator I can justify why you need different classes. However does someone really need to know calculus to repair a car? Does someone need to know theories of relativity to figure out when you drop a hammer on your toe it will most likely hurt? Now those are some very basic examples but those of you who did go to college how many of you use what you learned in a humanities class on an everyday basis. For me my most useless class was philosophy. “I am what I am, I am here or am I there.” WHAT? But I had to have the class to meet the school’s graduation requirements. Those of you who have graduated college how many “term” papers have you written for you job? In my case taking Art History actually did benefit me in one job because no one in the art department had no idea what Baroque art looked like. So I told them and showed them what the design should look like. In that job I was only considered a production worker and the designers were the “experts.” Funny how when I showed an editor my design he wanted me to work on his project not the “regular” designers. But that was only happened a few times in my working career.

snoopydad24 read my blog view my photos
Oct 29, 2007 | 1:44 PM

Students today want to know a skill that will benefit them after school. High schools are so worried about standardized testing instead of teaching a skill. Not to many jobs out there paying employees on how to take tests. College requires classes outside the major primarily to educate students with different problem solving skills. Those writing classes were tow fold: first to teach “proper” grammar, and second how to find an answer and information to support your answer. These students are merely showing that they find it a chore to write a term paper but can write pages and pages in blogs on the internet.

So, are high schools and colleges actually preparing the next generation of workers a legitimate skill or are we just filling them with useless knowledge they can only use on internet blogs?

Again this is not about school choice, vouchers, difference between public and private schools. None of these issues relate to what NEEDS to be taught in the schools.

mancillas read my blog
Oct 29, 2007 | 2:09 PM

If you don't think you are learning anything in college, DON'T GO! You have a choice here, and, if you decide to go, pick classes that pertain to what career you are interested in.

What is up with this LAZY generation that want to take short cuts and skip right on to that triple digit income? This never happened for my generation. Sarcastic and Theshan are right on.

mincooper read my blog
Oct 29, 2007 | 2:59 PM

mancillas-I agree, we are creating lazy kids these days, they whine and complain when they don't get their way and they expect this and that to be given to them.

Cuteypops read my blog view my photos
Oct 29, 2007 | 6:05 PM

I agree snoopydad. What I learned in many of my classes in college did not pertain to my degree, but these classes were all manditory to get the degree. It's not the point of being lazy to me. I feel that much of the garbage that they teach in schools should be left as extra courses to take in college if you need more credits.jmo
btw the video never loaded for me.

LadyCardFan read my blog view my photos
Oct 29, 2007 | 11:30 PM

I am betting that this is one course that the majority of these students "get". Like Sociology, Cultural Anthropology is highly debatable; however, realizing that a person or people an ocean apart, who have never met, are living very similar lives culturally is amazing to me.

After my AA, I finished my Bachelors through UOP Online. I worked with a group of 3 other women in 90+ percent of my classes, as well as others from around the world, on our team assignments and always found it amazing at how few differences we had, especially when it came to the use of technology.

So, for those that say the kids were whining, lazy, etc. realize that they are, by participating in this video, actually participating in a valid course of study that can impact their future. After all, I had I think it was 18 instructors I never met, but some I had great conversations with, just as I did in person when going for my AA.

Thanks for sharing this Redbird, I, for one, believe I do get it.

Kristamommyof2
Oct 30, 2007 | 12:17 AM

I thought it was a great u-tube. I am a 21 year old college student with two children. I realated to that so much. I hate buying textbooks that we NEVER open not because we are lazy but because we do not use them. i have facebook and myspace. This vidio really made me think and proved to me that I ma not the only one out there that was thinking WOW I will NEVER need this class. We spend so much time and money and things that are suposse to help[ us succeed in life. Maybe if we looked at our classes and degree and matched the classes that we use towards our degree students wouldnt fall behind on studies, pay attention in class and save money. Keep the classes relavent to our degree. Im majoring in Early childhood education and getting readt to minor in social services. But when will I ever teach pre calc to a 2 year old?

mancillas read my blog
Oct 30, 2007 | 8:36 AM

Well then, lets just take history out of all levels of education. This information, like when the mayflower landed is simply not necessary in life.

sarcasticdragon
Oct 30, 2007 | 11:01 AM

I've watched it 3 times now and only a small part is about the classes you have to take.
The rest is just complaining.

I mean what did the parts about owning expensive laptops, watching 2 hrs of TV a day and playing on-line 2 more hrs a day have to do with the high cost of college?
Was the collge forcing this on them?

So they say "we didn't start this" but sorry YES actually they did. You choose to buy the most expensive laptop made, they choose to watch 2 hrs of TV then complain that you don't have time for homework, you choose to play around online and then complain about having to take classes that dont matter.

Sorry but it just all still sounds like a big ol' pity party to me.

2boys4me read my blog view my photos
Oct 30, 2007 | 11:40 AM

You know something else I notice about Gen Y---they always are trying to blame the rest of us, "We didn't start this" is their mantra.
I had to take classes I found irrelevant to my degree too. It happens. College is expensive. Yes, it is. Lucky you--there are colleges for you to attend. There are laptops that are financially within your reach. There is TV, the internet, ipods, face book, you tube, etc., etc, for you to waste your time on. Your big complaint is that you have TOO much. I'll tell them the same thing I tell my kids, "Waa, waa, your life is SO hard."

cypherboy read my blog
Nov 11, 2007 | 1:29 PM

There are some truths in this video, but they're probably not what the creators of the video want to hear.

The truth is that we have raised a whole generation of lazy kids. They are concerned with trivial matters like talking on cell phones, texting, surfing the web, ipods, etc. They don't understand why anyone would do actual hard work. They resent anyone who doesn't cater to them or otherwise tells them they're being lazy.

It's time we as a society kicked some sense into these kids. The ipods need to go. The laptop computers need to go. The cell phones need to go. The TVs need to go.

These kids need to read more books and learn how to do something that's actually constructive.

It's true that our colleges aren't helping matters when professors are more concerned with grant money and research than teaching. However, it's also true that these kids don't do much to warrant the attention of the professors.

To these kids I say: Grow up and quit your whining.

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