#gen z school

[call-me-maggie13]

My late 40s to early 50s boss just asked what’s wrong with 18-25 year olds these days

And as a 21 year old all I could think was

The world has been on fire since we were born and we’ve been told the adults are putting it out and now we’re old enough to realize they’ve been pouring kerosene on the flames instead of water.

Before my first birthday, 9/11 happened and the world wouldn’t let us forget it. When I was 6 years old, on September 11th, my teacher sat us down in front of a tv and showed us footage of 9/11 and then told us we weren’t allowed to cry. She said that it was real and those were real people jumping from the building because jumping was a faster death than burning.

When I was 7 years old, the economy collapsed and my family went from lower middle class to poverty, we went from healthy home cooked meals every night to mac and cheese and beans for weeks in a row. We started skipping holidays because mom and dad couldn’t keep the lights on and buy us new toys. We started wearing clothes and shoes until they fell apart.

When I was 11 years old, Sandy Hook was attacked by a grown man with a gun and 26 children and teachers were brutally murdered. My teachers never looked at us the same and I haven’t felt safe in a school since. After that, once a month we would have active shooter drills and we were taught to fight and cause as much damage as possible if an armed man entered our classroom because it gave other classes a few extra seconds to escape, it gave our siblings a few extra breaths of safety. We were taught to cover ourselves in other students blood and play dead if we weren’t hit, we were taught that we weren’t safe and we wouldn’t be safe as long as we were in school.

When I was 15 years old, my high school art teacher locked us in the classroom and told us if we heard gunshots we should line the desks up lengthwise so that they reached the other wall because that would be harder to break through than a barricade. She told us that she knew about the threats and she wouldn’t judge any of us that wanted to leave. She told us to get our siblings and stay in the buildings as long as possible, to duck in between the cars so we couldn’t be seen until we got to ours. She told us about the trail behind the auto shop that was lined with trees and led off campus. I got my brother and his friends and we left, we spent the day sitting on the floor in my living room waiting for a phone call that the people we left behind were dying.

Two weeks later, one of my friends dragged me out of a football game and forced me to go home with him. He grabbed my brothers and my best friend and forced the six of us into a two seater car before he would tell us anything. His mom worked for the school board and had told him the police found an active bomb under the bleachers in the student section, and they weren’t informing anyone because they didn’t want to incite panic.

When I was 16 years old, ISIS set off a bomb at a pop concert in Britain and killed 22 people, injuring at least 100 more. The next day at school, our teachers went over how to stay safe if we ever experienced something like that. They told us the most important thing to remember was to not remove any shrapnel because it could be keeping us from bleeding out, they said it was more important to get yourself out safely before you worried about anyone else.

When I was 18 years old, my teachers stopped teaching and put the news up on the projector and we watched as the Notre-Dame burned. The boy I had sat next to since second grade spent the entire day trying to call his sister who was studying abroad in Paris, I watched this kid I had never even seen frown fall apart in English because she wouldn’t pick up the phone. We didn’t know it at the time, but she was okay.

Six months later, my history teacher put the news on the projector again for another fire. This time, we watched as an entire continent burned for three months. We watched their sky turned orange from the smoke and their wildlife drowned in pools because they were trying to escape the heat.

When I was 19 years old, the whole world shut down because of a global pandemic. I didn’t meet a single new person for eight months, despite the fact that I had just moved across the country. I watched as people didn’t wear masks and spread it to everyone around them, I was so scared when I went back to my room every night because my roommate was immunocompromised and I was terrified I would give her Covid and kill her.

Just two months later, I watched a video of a black man being murdered by police officers. I watched the world around me explode after George Floyd’s death, people destroying businesses and police stations. I watched some of my friends realize police officers didn’t exist to keep them safe, they existed to keep the people in power in power. I learned that some of the people I had grown up with would rather watch a black man die than admit that maybe, maybe, the system was broken.

When I was 20 years old, I went to the mall with a friend to buy a birthday present and I was pulled to the ground by a twelve-year-old girl after gunshots went off in the mall. I held this child’s hands as she cried for two hours until we were evacuated by police, and then I waited with her outside and helped her look for her mom. I gave her my phone to call her mom and I watched as she called the number over and over and never got a reply. I waited with her until a police officer took her to the station to try to find out more information about the girl’s mom, I hugged this girl I had never seen before and I wished her the best. I never found out what happened to her or her mom, it keeps me up at night sometimes worrying that this little girl was orphaned.

When I was 21 years old, I started working at a daycare and exactly a week later, Uvalde happened and I found myself crying because my students are the same age those kids were. When they came in after school the next day, one of them had asked me if I had heard about Uvalde and I told her I had, I asked her if she was scared of going to school because of it. Her reply broke my heart. “We practice for it every week so that when it happens to us, we know what to do. I’m just worried that the shooter is going to start in my baby sister’s classroom and not mine.” I listened as other students with younger siblings agreed with her, one of them saying “I would take fifty bullets, if I had to to keep my little brother safe.”

Early this year, I watched Russia launched bombs into Ukraine, blowing up churches and schools and hospitals and apartment buildings. I watched as the estimated death count rose from the hundreds to the thousands to the tens of thousands. I watched men send their wives and children to bordering countries for refuge while they stayed behind to fight, knowing they would probably never see each other again.

Just four months ago, I watched as my right to medical privacy got taken away. I watched my old roommate fall apart because she was denied the right to have her dead fetus removed from her body for almost two days, I worried every time I looked away from her that the next time I saw her would be in a casket. I watched as the women around me realized the military-grade weapons that had torn children in classrooms apart were protected by the government but our bodies weren’t.

There is nothing “wrong” with my generation, we’ve experienced all these things as children and were expected to respond with patriotism for a country that continuously sacrificed their children for the “right” to military-grade weapons, that took away my freedom of choice. We are tired, we were told the world was a wonderful place then shown, at every step, how the world was a place of destruction and pain. And we are angry. We are angry because no one but us seems to be trying to fix anything. And we are scared. We are scared because our children, our nieces and nephews, our cousins and our friends children are growing up in a world that won’t protect them.

#gen z post #generation z #gen z experience #tw 9/11 #9/11 mention #9/11 #tw active shooter #active shooter tw #tw gun mention #gun tw #tw abortion mention #tw gun violence #tw bombing #shooting at uvalde #uvalde #uvalde school massacre #uvalde school shooting #the war on Ukraine #ukraine war #fuck russia #george floyd #george floyd protests #Ariana grande concert bombing #notre dame cathedral #notre dame cathedral fire #fire in Notre dame #notre dame fire #sandy hook #sandy hook school shooting #sandy hook shooting

[liliamoon]

Out-Of-Context Quotes From My Geology Professor

In honor of the end of my finals week, I compiled a bunch of random quotes from my geology professor:

“There’s reality, and then there’s Boulder, Colorado.”

“The Earth slowly loses heat to space, so eventually Earth will solidify. Except by that time, the sun will have engulfed us and we’ll be vaporized, so!”

“In a billion years, the Earth will barely be habitable, but to be honest, I’m not really losing sleep over it.”

“What also floats in water? Jesus… and witches, and very small rocks.”

“My grandma is from Ohio— they don’t have rocks there.”

“But you can’t watch them after 10 p.m. because that’s when aliens go home.”

“So quartz-rich rocks are siliceous, clay-rich rocks are argillaceous, and the Black-Eyed Peas are Fergilicious.”

“I can just see everyone’s faces start glazing over when I get talking about national park bathrooms.”

“Don’t feel bad, I used to wear socks with sandals, too.”

“Anticline points up, syncline points down. You can remember this because anticline looks like an A, and syncline— if you sin, you’re going down.”

“Death doesn’t matter when you have credit card debt.”

“I’m an old schist.”

“See, look, that poor sheep will never be fossilized.”

“I would say the best place to find gold is… Jared’s?”

“Saltating benthos— I always thought that would be a good name for a band. I mean, it is kinda like a rolling stone.”

“WHY are we FRENCH?”

“There’s enough death to go around!”

“This is not a part of my regular curriculum, but the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser? That stuff works so well!”

“Do you want to see a picture of the moose that chased me this past weekend?”

Bonus: my American literature professor once said “I haven’t really had a near-death experience. If anything, it was the opposite: a near life experience. Y’know, like, I almost had a life.”

#school #jokes #memes #quotes #teacher quote #out of context quotes #funny #geology #science #science teacher #science jokes #teaching quote #gen z #high school #college #dark academia #literature

[gen-z-culture-is]

gen z culture is perpetually switching between "i am the smartest person in the world and i deserve a nobel prize for intelligence" to "i have the iq of an iguana how did i pass fourth grade" in school

#submission #gen z #culture #school tw #negative tw

[mycatsaidwhat]

things i’ve heard college students say pt. 29

-you may be into Sucky mpreg but some people believe the holocaust didn’t happen

-humans should have a mating season where we all congregate in a river once a year to find love like salmon 

-granted, there is a difference between being a momma’s boy and being Normon Bates 

-Only in a poli sci class would you get a picture of the live action winne the poo and Kim Jon un next to one another 

-“get ready for the met gala with me!!” influencer vlogs showing up on my suggested as if I don’t make $10.73 an hour 

-no way that dog had a blog, dogs can’t read 

-in god we bust

-every guys wants to be a golden retriever boyfriend until they wake up with no balls 

-graphic design majors are like the diet soda of the art world 

-if i could choose between having a successful career and lying down i would choose lying down 

-today’s graduation is sponsored by plan b

-going down on a woman and tying her fallopian tubes with my tongue like a cherry stem 

-most of the world’s problems would be solved if more billionaires disappeared in submarines 

-you come face to face with god at a 24 hour ihop

-she lemony on my snicket until there’s an unfortunate event

-took a shit in the gender neutral bathroom, call that a she/it

-the tornado dodged us cause someone told it that it had to pay a cover for every bar it destroyed

-can I have a cars 2-themed blowjob, please

-the best thing Taylor Swift has done recently is get some girls to consider that they may be the problem

-“I’M LITERALLY SO FERAL” no Ava you’re just drunk and white

#still tagging this as shit i've heard high schoolers say #college #college memes #college problems #college students #gen z #gen z memes #gen z life #college life #gen z problems #school memes #student life #student problems #student memes #student humor #college humor #studyblr

[vesper93]

Notes:

"School" in the question means the educational facility you usually attend between 5-17/18. I'm not including higher education in this definition.

Gens:

Baby Boomer - 1946-1964

Gen X - 1965 - 1981

Millennial - 1982 - 1995

Gen-Z - 1996 - 2011

I'm gonna assume we haven't got any silent generation (pre 1946) or gen alphas (2012+) who have somehow miraculously finished school already, lurking on tumblr.

Reblog for wider sample.

#poll #education #further education #school #schooling #adulthood #baby boomer #gen x #millennial #gen z #life #modern life

[soberscientistlife]

Gen Z will vote every Republican out of office for doing nothing to stop school shootings

#vote blue #fuck trump #school shooters #gen z #vote democrat #vote biden #democracy

[softerhaze]

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#ts4 #z #*ruthie #*milo #i won't be doing dialogue because i choose to have fun with this little life of mine #and that's a lot of editing to do lmao #so with that said #milo is in grad school (ew) and visiting ruthie for like day since he was already around for a conference (EW) #*a day #there's so much more that i wanna say but KJSDHFKJSDHFGJKHSDF #you'll get it eventually i'm sure #*carve your name #*sunday save #*sunday save gen 2

[cyanside]

Maybe it’s bc it’s 5:14 am but this shits wild

But the Jinseop one is so funny wtf

The brain rot is so real 🤙

#aslfua #aslfua brain rot #cheolmiae #hwang miae #kim cheol #soonki #webcomic #webtoon #after school lessons for unripe apples #meme #gen z shit

[ahappydnp]

Everyday I log into Twitter and see multiple people asking “where’s this screenshot from, what’s this clip from?” And it will be content from 2019-2022!!! What has happened to phannie culture. Finding Dan and Phil and not watching every video posted starting from 2009, Reading forum posts from 2013? Do we not care about lore anymore? Where’d the obsession that comes from finding dnp randomly one day and you’re life never being the same. Like if they actually watched phils content they actually know the answers to the questions!!!!!!

i'm not gonna mock people for not knowing something but yeah in the past couple of years there has seemed to be an uptick in people asking others to find the things for them instead of doing any kind of research

not to be an old™️ but i think it's a generational thing and the product of people who are now in their early 20s not having to learn the same online research skills we did? or maybe it's also because social media changed the way they're used to receiving info (as in it's fed to them directly without looking)

but no i agree back in the day if you joined a new fandom or wanted to learn you did your own digging and looked up forums/videos/used basic deductive reasoning. it'll be interesting to see how fandom landscapes progress

#anon ask #i also was reading something recently about how school chromebooks have ruined gen z's ability to properly search? #like it was a widespread epidemic for people who grew up using chromebooks because of their interface? #it generally doesn't annoy me unless it's something that could very easily be searched #or it's like a brand new video that everyones talking about live and someone asks where to find it #but also its nice that theres not the same shame we had in asking back then?

[betty-bourgeoisie]

My dad mentioned that one of his students this quarter is a trans guy named Lukas and I jokingly said "Oh, is he a Hetalia fan?" And my dad goes "Yeah, he has a Hetalia keychain on his backpack. How did you know that?" and anyway I hate it here.

#Hetalia #aph norway #the way you can track what anime gen z trans guys were into in highschool by their names #is fucking nuts man #every Sebastian was into Black Butler #Every Matt and Lukas was into Hetalia #anyway if any of you Lukas' see this and are worried it's about you #just know that my loving and patient father used edit my DenNor fanfic for me when I was in middle school #because I was too dyslexic for spell check to actually work for me #and he wanted to support my passion for writing #so you having a weeb name won't even muss his hair #don't worry about it

[marypsue]

It bums me out that they remade Mean Girls, not because I'm philosophically opposed to remakes or even remakes of icons from my own youth, but because we had one high school black comedy about popular girls per decade for a while there but then it dried up and I want it back. And also I want to see what an all-original 2020s high school black comedy about popular girls would look like.

#we don't need another mean girls! we need and gen z deserves a successor to mean girls! #did they remake heathers in 2004? THEY DID NOT. they gave us our OWN #also high school in the 2020s - even the Hollywood version - is a complete black box to me and I'm curious

[liliamoon]

Chaotic Teacher Quotes

Because I just finished my degree, I compiled a list of some of my favorite things my professors have said this past semester:

“To shower or not to shower, that is the question.”

“My parents were baby boomers, which means they were on drugs and had sex and that’s how I happened.” “I’m not kidding. That’s true.”

“Ok, how does everyone feel about nostrils?”

“I like to remind my wife that she’s older than me. Every year on my birthday I’m like, oh my god, I’m almost as old as you!”

“That’s the best way to learn: forget and then remember. The only better way is to learn it drunk and then learn it sober. …Grad school is a lot of fun.”

“Is Dungeons & Dragons legit as a religious institution? Let’s discuss.”

“Punxsutawney Phil, the little beaver— not a beaver, the, you know, the marmot, HE DIED. I mean, what does that mean for our weather?? If he sees his shadow it’s six more weeks of winter but WHAT IF HE DIES??”

“We can’t have negative time— if it’s negative, you’re dead. Just like the groundhog.”

“Are we ultimately born of divine incest?”

“This whole thing is complex, very convoluted. But so is my sister, and I still love her.”

“You might ask yourself, what do I do with a big chunk of text? In many cases, the first step is to burn it with fire.”

“This is good information for those of you thinking of starting a cult.”

“I drive a stick-shift, you can’t steal my car. If you look at the thing, you wouldn’t want to, but the point is, you CAN’T.” “It’s got nothing, I almost literally have to go out with a lighter and turn on the headlights myself.”

“Do you think we could rewrite The Lord of the Rings in limerick meter? Potentially a good idea for your finals.”

“Does that freak anyone out? If it doesn’t, you might not be paying attention!!!”

“Here we read that Tiamat and Apsu had ‘mixed their waters together’— I guess that’s what the kids call it these days.”

“You know how in America we’re very vulnerable to British accents?”

“If you know what you’re doing, it’ll take about thirty minutes; if you don’t know what you’re doing, maybe forty; and if you really don’t know what you’re doing, it’ll take five.”

“Cockroaches gonna cockroach, everybody with me?”

“Right now I’m being a pain-in-the-ass materialist.” “You feel? Hold the phone.” “Conscience? What do we do with people who don’t have that? Like me.”

“Who here is familiar with the term ‘shitification’?”

“Academia is like a hospital: if you don’t work there, don’t stick around.”

“I always want you all to walk out of this classroom with a little bit more of the weight of despair on your shoulders.” “Are you feeling it?”

#school #jokes #memes #quotes #teacher quote #out of context quotes #funny #science #science teacher #mythology #classical mythology #literature #teaching quote #philosophy #gen z #high school #College #dark academia #chaotic academia

[gen-z-culture-is]

gen z culture is being so burnt out from exams you cant do basic math

example:

i went to the canteen to buy a snack for 8 turkish liras (roughly 50 cents in usd). i gave her a ten bill, expecting 3 liras back. 10-8=2. i expected 3 fucking liras. why tf did i expect 3 liras.

the math thing is real but y’all got snacks for 50 cents? sign me up

#submission #gen z #culture #cursing tw #swearing tw #negative tw #school tw

[mycatsaidwhat]

things i’ve heard english majors say pt. 16

-I need to print out my plot outlines single-sided because flipping them is driving me nuts, why can’t I shut the fuck up and write anything less than 42 chapters plus a 9 character pov epilogue 

-I don’t think I could ever be drunk enough to write a YA novel  

-I can’t ghost him, a character based on him is half of the story that I’m writing 

-me having to check if I’ve already used to word “immortally” in every nonfiction essay I’ve ever written 

-“it’s living too much outside the poem” just say its too vague or too ambiguous, you slut 

-mmm, the “always” kind of love. Tasty. 

-his father used to hit him and his favorite authors are all 19th century Russian men–of course he’s not a virgin

-nothing like bad movies that make me want to write 

-my face would look a lot more panicked if I was doing math right now 

-discussing serif typeface until i start internally bleeding 

-oh she said enjambment, she said utilizing white space 

-oh it ends with a period. That's a choice. 

-nothing more confusing than walking onto the bus on Thirsty Thursday while listening to the Downton Abbey theme 

-if anyone in the communications building sees me half bent over, clutching my head with both hands and slightly shaking, no you didn’t and this is actually pretty normal behavior 

-it was “best friend’s younger brother” but now it’s “my best friend’s younger bitchass playboy cousin who left me on delivered for 8 days and who I met exactly once and now I’m living near him because we hate the country we come from.” It’s called diversity. 

-I’m writing my poli sci essay

Sick, I’m writing the epilogue for book 3 when I haven’t finished book 1 or properly plotted book 2 

-literally no inconvenience is too small for me to lose my mind over 

-I don’t want to change the world, that sounds like a lot of work. But if I write something that inspires someone with a lot more initiative to change the world for me, that would be real great 

#still tagging this as shit i've heard high schoolers say #college #college humor #college memes #college problems #college life #student life #student humor #student memes #student problems #school humor #school memes #English majors #writing #writing prompts #creative writing #studyblr #gen z #gen z life #gen z problems

[generation-fucked-nostalgia]

Random things I remember about being a huge Creepypasta nerd in middle school:

All the different " [Person's Name] The Killer" OCs on Deviantart

The fanart that made the guys look attractive, the dating quizzes...

Watching Marble Hornets

Drawing fanart in my school notebook

The dynamic everyone kind of adopted that all the creepypastas live together in Slenderman's Mansion and ~wacky shenanigans~ ensue

The MLP stories that (no pun intended) gave me nightmares :(

That one YouTuber who cosplayed as the characters and went on Omegle

Using the characters as and self insert stories as a comfort and an escape mechanism :')

The few kids who truly, truly believed that the stories were all real

RPing the characters on forums

Trying to talk to Ben Drowned through Cleverbot

#nostalgia #nostalgic #childhood #childhoodcore #gen z #gen z nostalgia #gen z things #2000s nostalgia #early 2000s #90s nostalgia #90s kid #90s kids #2000s kid #2000s kids #creepypasta #2010 nostalgia #creepypasta fandom #unlocked memories #middle school #fond memories #hidden memories #memories #childhood memories #jeff the killer #ben drowned #slenderman #2013 #2010s #2014 #2015

[balestrem]

Quiet quitting is one of the most bizarre things to me to be discussed in 2022. 

It’s mostly bizarre to me, because of the entitlement older generations have towards younger generations and the ignorance they enforce upon my generation, especially in Germany, where I grew up.

You have older generations, usually the generation of my parents, calling us lazy, unable to work well under pressure, etc. I’d like to give insight into the fact that our school system was designed to recreate a work-like state from the age of six. You go to school, learn stuff, go home, do unpaid labor, called “homework”, which has to be good, otherwise you’re labeled as stupid and unable to keep up and have to repeat a year in school. I partially had a workload of 12 hours per day, not because I was poorly structured, but because I had four school subjects per day, with four different kinds of homework which all required at least 30, if not 90 minutes of investment, to do homework properly. Add to that my dyslexia and you get at least 30 minutes more than others. But even non dyslexic students sat there for hours doing homework. I even had my mother do my homework for me, because the work load was too much. Let that sink in.

Then you have a system that rewards pupils who are never sick, by pointing out how there is one kid in class with the most sick days, as though it is their fault that they get sick. Meanwhile you have underpaid and overworked school staff who cannot handle instances of bullying accordingly, resulting in pupils being more sick, especially mentally due to continuous bullying. You create a place that is literally designed to be hostile to human nature, by forcing people to sit still for multiple hours a day, move during breaks to „prevent health problems“ in the future, but give so much homework that hobbies and personal interests can barely be done, and usually if one performs bad at school they have to quit their hobbies because they need to focus more on school or they have their parents cancel their hobbies for them (if they could afford a hobby to begin with), resulting in more stress, because of less possibilities to destress. Then you have heavy school bags that literally fuck up people‘s backs for life, because they have to carry like 10-20kgs of books and folders per day (this was my reality, I kid you not). Then we had no proper food at our cafeteria (for the first four years we had no cafeteria at all, but had to go to school until 3 or 4pm, with no proper food). 

Then you have weird power dynamics with teachers who bully you and abuse their power and give you bad grades, just because they think a person with dyslexia should not get the chance to go to university, thereby giving them bad grades, by not answering any of their questions during exams (also something that happened to me and other students as well). And if it’s not dyslexia there is another aspect that a teacher will hate about you and mock you for and treat you like you’re less than a human being than others.

Then we entered a school system that was changed by graduating one year earlier to go to university sooner in Germany, but the school books were not ready for that so we had to carry two books per subject at times, because the subjects we discussed required two books of two school grades. We had no coherent teachings and had to read a lot of stuff at home, by our selves, because the curriculum to teach us properly was not yet developed. And we were asked to understand it all and there was never time for any questions.

Then we finish with a degree, have terrible payments, cannot afford a reasonable lifestyle and are forced to suck it up. Then we have shortages in almost every area, a pandemic we went through a financial crisis, a war that effects the economy and destabilizes a lot in other countries, we have a climate crisis which no politican seems to take seriously enough to do proper change, basically my generaiton in Germany will not have any rent and no positive prospects for the future. Far right extremism seems to be on the rise world wide.

I had my first burn-out in fourth grade and had to go to therapy, because school life was so tough and nobody did anything. I had a parent at home who created immense pressure and guilt if I failed, who regularly assaulted me verbally.

And now our “generation is just lazy”? That shoe just doesn’t fit.

#2022 #quiet quitting #capitalism #anti capitalism #school #childhood trauma #school life #growing up #exhausting #Stress #personal #education #school system #gen z #gen y #Future #climate crisis #pandemic #economic crisis