Today I substituted for 6 periods of High School honors calculus classes, nothing but juniors and seniors. The best and the brightest.
When the Rittenhouse verdict came down I told each class.
I was met with blank stares.
Most of the students didn't know what I was talking about, only three or four had a vague notion of the facts of the case or it's significance.
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Dude...er, DOOD!
Today's American teenagers will walk off a cliff watching a Tik Tok video and never stop watching all the way to the ground!
They are WAAAAAAY too busy watching things in a make-believe world to even notice things going on in The Real World. Count me as not surprised at all by your findings.
@dood111 saidI was at a festival gathering last weekend and a young guy, the requisite turned-around baseball cap affixed, looked just like RHouse. I told him that, he had no idea of Kenosha, the trial, etc. He was a dead ringer. He is one of the young kids that McHill tells us about in the 'Kids Know More' thread.... 🤔 🤔 😴
Today I substituted for 6 periods of High School honors calculus classes, nothing but juniors and seniors. The best and the brightest.
When the Rittenhouse verdict came down I told each class.
I was met with blank stares.
Most of the students didn't know what I was talking about, only three or four had a vague notion of the facts of the case or it's significance.
@averagejoe1 saidYep, it's scary that they can vote when they have no idea about what's going on other than the vague notions they get from the internet garbage they are exposed to as they scan for the latest video game or rap video..
I was at a festival gathering last weekend and a young guy, the requisite turned-around baseball cap affixed, looked just like RHouse. I told him that, he had no idea of Kenosha, the trial, etc. He was a dead ringer. He is one of the young kids that McHill tells us about in the 'Kids Know More' thread.... 🤔 🤔 😴
@dood111 saidThese are American students, what do you expect.
Today I substituted for 6 periods of High School honors calculus classes, nothing but juniors and seniors. The best and the brightest.
When the Rittenhouse verdict came down I told each class.
I was met with blank stares.
Most of the students didn't know what I was talking about, only three or four had a vague notion of the facts of the case or it's significance.
Also, you’re a teacher?
lol.
@contenchess saidOh, that's er so like 2019. I mean who even like watches the Kardashians any more....
They are focused on some rap singer or making their butts big.
@averagejoe1 saidI thought you were in your seventies!
I was at a festival gathering last weekend and a young guy, the requisite turned-around baseball cap affixed, looked just like RHouse.
But I suppose you might have been high during the 60s so that might make some sense.
I find it amusing that some posters have made a folk hero out of a nerdy little boy who probably.....
- never got to kiss a girl in high school
- was always picked last when teams were picked in gym class
- got wedgied constantly in the gym locker room.
- was a completely unexceptional looking little warthog who finally got even.
Yup !!
@mghrn55 saidThank you for making up a whole lot of nothing
I find it amusing that some posters have made a folk hero out of a nerdy little boy who probably.....
- never got to kiss a girl in high school
- was always picked last when teams were picked in gym class
- got wedgied constantly in the gym locker room.
- was a completely unexceptional looking little warthog who finally got even.
Yup !!