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Originally Posted by Strongside
I find myself feeling bad for these kids more and more lately.
This is already a generation that doesn't know how to talk to people or interact with humanity without the use of a screen or the internet. These kids have never known a world without social media. Internet hatred, stupidity, and misinformation has been part of their lives since inception.
And now this COVID crisis has forced kids to lose the one aspect of social interaction (school) they have left.
Certainly they aren't the first generation to deal with ****ed up circumstances, but this just sucks. I think back on my middle school and high school days and I remember them fondly. Sports, mingling between classes, skipping out on Algebra to go eat at Taco Tico, learning how to navigate social norms and structure...
This isn't a "Send these kids to school no matter what!" post either. I just think there are lasting implications tied to the decisions adults are making for these kids with regard to their school and their future.
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I think they were already going to have some level of ****ed-up-edness no matter what, but add this on top of it, and yikes.
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One positive of being a millennial parent is the ability to help them navigate some of these pitfalls since our knowledge of internet related things are better than our parents were. My parents thought nothing of letting me sit in front of a screen playing video games for hours, or spending every week night hanging out on AOL instant messenger.