Brian Tapia
As a member of this generation’s youth, I am able to see kids' disrespectful behaviors towards adults close up and be able to group them based on certain actions towards adults. There are three different groups of misbehaving youth. The first group are the usual attention seekers who target adult authority in order to be cool amongst friends. The second group are the more "prestige" kids who feel better than everyone. The third group are more unknowing than the others and treat everyone in a disrespectful manner because they don't know any better.
The first group are the most rude, seeking a reaction and using verbal attacks to get what they want. This group does not listen to instructions and will disobey any rules given by adults. The second group of kids do not listen because they don't feel like they need to and will only do what they want. This group will also take advantage of adults to get what they want and are considered spoiled. The kids put into this group usually feel very popular but in reality are left alone because of their snappy attitude and their arrogant personality . The third group is the best behaved out of the three groups. Kids in this group will listen to most instructions and will only talk back in some cases. The third group act the way they do because of their ignorance of how they treat adults.
The kids of this generation take advantage of adults because of the changes in rules and punishments over the years. Now kids will mistreat even the ones that give them an education if they feel like it. Kids take adults for granted and when it is their turn to be adults they will wish they learned from those they disobeyed and mistreated.
By: Mrs. Carson
The most detrimental behaviors I see in students today range from promiscuity to being disruptive in class. Adolescence is a very difficult time in a student’s life. There are a lot of pressures from a lot of sources. Many times students who pay attention in class, do their work, and make the “right” choices are ridiculed. Being the “class clown” is a way of gaining other student’s acceptance—sometimes the only way a student knows. Unfortunately, this disruptive behavior keeps the “clown” from learning and others in the class as well.
As a teacher of middle school students and adults, I have a unique opportunity to teach students at vastly different ages. I’ve taught several adults who told me they regret “wasting” their educational opportunities when they were young. They played around disrupting class, cutting class, and not taking their education seriously. As an adult, they are paying to complete classes. Without fail, they all say the same thing—they wish they could redo their school years and focus on what’s important—their education, not what other kids thought of them.
