I don’t think Gen Z teenagers had to deal with the emotional, verbal, and sometimes physical abuse millennials and Gen X had to deal with in high school. Do you?
Do you think Gen Z high schoolers have it easy compared to millennials and Gen X?
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Not trying to come at your question, the gif is fine on it’s own for it’s purpose, but I do remember that specific fight, and in that case, the kid who got punched was bullying a kid who was legally blind or some sort of fairly significant disability, and another kid stepped in and coldcocked him, haha.
Anyway…. hard to say, since I only experienced my own high school life in the 90s. I guess I’m Gen X, maybe bordering on hybrid Gen Xer/Millenial. In some senses, yes, I feel like we weren’t being looked out for as much and were left to fend for ourselves more socially. Getting bullied was more considered “part of growing up.” Adults would more often be like “well, you’d better stand up for yourself or it’s going to keep happening.” And, shit, teachers could manhandle you too. One of the fights I got into in middle school, I wasn’t hurt in the fight, I was actually winning, but I ended up the most hurt because the wood shop teacher who broke it up absolutely EARTHED me on the cafeteria floor, lmao, jacked up my elbow pretty good. My elementary school principal brought a wiseass 4th grader into my 1st grade class on some “act like a little kid and you can go be with little kids” message, told him to sit in a chair he dragged to the front of the class, the kid still was like “make me”, and holy shit, he got fuckin’ SPIKED, lmfao, like this guy would’ve maybe caught a charge these days, and CERTAINLY would’ve lost his job, but I PROMISE you, they have a plaque or some sort of commemorative award in his name in that school TODAY, I’d even bet a moderate amount of money on it, he was so highly-respected. Even towards the end of high school in like ‘96, I’m pretty sure I’m one of the last people to get his hand slapped by a Catholic school nun, lmao. There was no ruler used like you hear about, but she gave me a good crack with her hand.
So a lot of things, yeah, I feel like it’s softened and it’s easier. I can’t speak for true millenials, but I know people more around my age didn’t have the cyber bullying aspect to deal with. That’s kind of a new development that’s probably difficult to manage. Also, just the hyper-fascination with social media like Instagram, I could see how that puts so much added pressure on already-self-conscious teenagers to look good and be attractive, have cool clothes, have the appearance of popularity, etc. I’m definitely glad I grew up when I did👍
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When I was in school when something serious happened you didn't really know anything about it, something might get mentioned but it would all be dealt with in private so far as possible.
In the modern world every mistake you make as a teenager is recorded and posted online where all of your peers can see it and then mock you or use the footage to make a whole new meme about your shame and then you have to go back into school and face that shit.
It sounds like a literal waking nightmare, little wonder they are fucking killing themselves.
So, no I dont think they have it easier at all.
No, I don't think so. Sure, school policies have gotten more fine tuned and we have better phones, but the economy is awful. We're all going to end up in an insane amount of debt, and very few of us will be able to afford to own the place we live in. Healthcare is expensive. (You want to know why so many young people are getting into alternative healthcare, crystals, essential oils, etc. Look at the price of health insurance. We're desperate for something we can at least tell ourselves will keep us safe). The environment is becoming more and more toxic. School shootings are becoming increasingly common. And politics are a mess.
I'm not saying that things don't suck for other generations too. I'm just saying that if you look at the rates of mental illness among different generations at different ages, it's going up, at least in the United States. That's got to mean something.
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I think Gen Zs have similar pressures and problems (if not even more in the US where gun violence and mass shootings are more common today than when Milennials were kids).
There's still all the same human issues. Cyberbullying is probably more the problem than "traditional" bullying. Especially with COVID having sent most kids online for schooling.
There's still physical violence. And shootings if you're in the US (and, much more rarely, in other countries).
Gen Z still faces homophobia and classic bullying. That's not a generational thing. That's a human thing. Humans will always have bullies among our number.
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Definitely not. Speaking as someone who just about snuck into Gen Z and have observed my juniors as they've grown, as well as kids I have and do still volunteer with. Socially, they're much more inept than my parents and their parents were at their age. I've noticed this even in my close friends and acquantances. People don't go out, except to the club. They just message, stay at home, hook up or play video games. Attention spans have absolutely collapsed, as has the idea of discipline and that sometimes shutting up and learning a life lesson is more important than Fortnite. Not only that, wealth over time continues to decline, meaning these kids will have lower wages than previous generations, something that has been the case since the Boomers.
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Things just get traded out, cyber bullying, being able to spread photos and generally needing to monitor your online presence are all new things that haven't been taken care of yet - but stuff like questionable punishments in school are pretty much gone by now.
I dont really see the problem in newer generations having it easier, thats the whole point of 'making the way' for them isn't it? you get into a hard field so your kids can pursue things they want to do; you enforce neighborhood safety so your kids won't have to be scared walking down the street; you buy cheap so your kids won't have to.
No point in trying to make kids suffer as much or more than you did out of spite
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We know who the boys were, the girls were, which bathrooms to use, and didn’t have to play this pronoun horse hockey. If you had beef with someone you took it outside and settled it on the football field, and it was over. Today, the Internet never forgets, the American Psychological Association has pathologized masculinity into a mental disease, there are less fathers in the home than ever before, sense of entitlement has achieved lunar orbit, and neither words nor actions have meaning anymore. I feel sosorry for anyone whose parents despise them so deeply and totally as to subject them to the soul sucking brain cell murdering torture chamber of horrors known as public high school in America.
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They have it easier in some areas and more difficult in other areas.
Easier: Much more academic help, less fighting in school, less drugs, can easily stay in contact with friends when away from school, more field trips, better/more supplies provided for them.
More difficult: Have much more of the liberal anti-White, anti-Christian agenda pushed onto them, and people can harass them online like cowards easily or spread lies without confronting them to their face and getting beat down like they deserve. There are less teachers available when they need good advice because many of the teachers are the liberals pushing much of the anti-White, anti-Christian agenda and encouraging harassment of normal people.
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Yes, I had to carry 4 textbooks every morning to school. These suckers they have laptops this days. Let’s not talk about the bullying…they are physical…but millennials were EMOTIONAL DAMAGE! 😳 The the teachers, at the time they looked like Ms. Trunchbull…teachers these days look like they do OnlyFans as a side job and look damn hot. Ohhh and the food, pizza everyday for lunch…now they get to pick between salad and lasagne. And girl if you wanted to look pretty, only chap stick and a ponytail was allowed, now this little girls have Great make up tutorials AND make up! Ohh and if you wanted to listen to your music during lunch, you had to make sure to have batteries for your CD player and carry your big headphones and cds…. now they got it their cellphones with wireless cellphones. Just watch, in a few more years they will feel like I’m felling right now though🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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I think they're extremely protected emotionally and physically compared to us. Do they have it easier though... hell no. They can't figure anything out on their own and will have trouble affording a place of their own with whatever job they get... it's like a forced buddy system with them. The ones that have it made got into college with a mommy & daddy college fund and most of them seem to be journalists of some type.
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Generation Z has no idea what bullying is when compared to what Generation X and Generation Y first experienced.
They live in a fantasy world devoid of suffering. Three quarters of the people who complain today if they had come to the school I attended would have been slaughtered by the harassment. -
I don't know I think they might have to face different issues - like an increased in school shootings, but at the same time society is getting more “woke” now so a lot of things that millennials tolerated are no longer acceptable in the world of Gen Z.
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I am in high school rn and we have less punishment, but we have a lot of work still, and there's more drama thats pretty stressing too, espicially if its about u too.
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There is more psychological warfare and less in the way of coping mechanisms to deal with it. Due to the way they were raised by helicopter parents with little to no independence.
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Yes! All they have to do is show up and they get passing grades!! No homework or learning needed! What's the point of even going? It's VERY obvious they're not learning anything... except CRT and gender studies!
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I find it odd that the majority who said no are women and men for yes lol. Lots of little boys on here 🤣
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They have way more classes and their "schooling" if you want to call it that doesn't do a good job a teaching. The point of school is to learn yet as time goes on our school system is doing a worse and worse job at it.
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None of them are going to amount to anything on the average.
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Nah, they definitely have it worse than Milennials. That's really saying something.
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I didn't have to go through a metal detector nor have an officer at the school. So no.
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They have different problems but I hear they are infantilised compared to previous generations and I'm not sure that makes them stronger.
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No, physical and emotional abuse has always existed in high schools.
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Every generation seems to think the next one has it easier. It's wild.
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No, they don't have it easier. Because they're getting shot at and literally killed.
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