I really enjoyed reading this article because I found a lot of it very applicable to my life. I agree that schooling now is very different from when my parents were going to school. In high school, I would attend from 7AM-230PM and after school was out, it wasn't necessarily over. I took a handful amount of AP classes, so there was always homework. I was on the executive boards for ASB, Key Club, and Honor Society, so there was also attending meetings. These organizations require community service, so there was also trying to find the time to give for those activities. I had an internship at a credit union and I also worked at a movie theater. And asides trying to study for exams, eat, and sleep, there was also trying to be healthy and sane. And even when I felt that I was trying my complete hardest and exceeding in everything I was doing, there was always someone who had more tasks than I did and also excelled in what he/she was doing. I totally agree with the student opinions that essentially everything a student does somehow ends up making the student feel like in the end, everything is worthless. There just isn't enough time in the day to do all of these things that colleges are looking for.
I am now an Associate Manager at a movie theater. From an employer's perspective, this article was spot on with how I feel about the employees at my job. I work with a lot of high school students and high school graduates and it is quite irritating when they feel entitled to a raise when their work requires minimal mental effort and minimal physical effort. Many of my employees will do the minimum of what is required in their set of job tasks and will feel like they are exceeding company expectations. It's really annoying to me because I have always had a job since I was 16 years old and I truly know what hard work looks like when I see it. It is very hard not to get irritated when someone who has a weak work ethic demands or expects more praise or reward for tasks I can do in my sleep.
From the parent's perspective, I think it is just because the world is becoming more and more of a scary place to live in. When I was 4 years old, my mom would simply let me and my brother, who was 7 years old at the time, walk to school. Now that society is more exposed to and more afraid of murder, rape, molestation, etc. we have had an increase in the development of "helicopter parents." My daughter is only 10 months old, but I can already feel like I will be more strict with her than my parents were with me just because more and more horrible things keep happening in our world today.
I really enjoyed reading this article because I found a lot of it very applicable to my life. I agree that schooling now is very different from when my parents were going to school. In high school, I would attend from 7AM-230PM and after school was out, it wasn't necessarily over. I took a handful amount of AP classes, so there was always homework. I was on the executive boards for ASB, Key Club, and Honor Society, so there was also attending meetings. These organizations require community service, so there was also trying to find the time to give for those activities. I had an internship at a credit union and I also worked at a movie theater. And asides trying to study for exams, eat, and sleep, there was also trying to be healthy and sane. And even when I felt that I was trying my complete hardest and exceeding in everything I was doing, there was always someone who had more tasks than I did and also excelled in what he/she was doing. I totally agree with the student opinions that essentially everything a student does somehow ends up making the student feel like in the end, everything is worthless. There just isn't enough time in the day to do all of these things that colleges are looking for.
ReplyDeleteI am now an Associate Manager at a movie theater. From an employer's perspective, this article was spot on with how I feel about the employees at my job. I work with a lot of high school students and high school graduates and it is quite irritating when they feel entitled to a raise when their work requires minimal mental effort and minimal physical effort. Many of my employees will do the minimum of what is required in their set of job tasks and will feel like they are exceeding company expectations. It's really annoying to me because I have always had a job since I was 16 years old and I truly know what hard work looks like when I see it. It is very hard not to get irritated when someone who has a weak work ethic demands or expects more praise or reward for tasks I can do in my sleep.
From the parent's perspective, I think it is just because the world is becoming more and more of a scary place to live in. When I was 4 years old, my mom would simply let me and my brother, who was 7 years old at the time, walk to school. Now that society is more exposed to and more afraid of murder, rape, molestation, etc. we have had an increase in the development of "helicopter parents." My daughter is only 10 months old, but I can already feel like I will be more strict with her than my parents were with me just because more and more horrible things keep happening in our world today.