Are people lazy, don’t know how to help or scared of liability.

[Oaktree]

I could’ve gone to NYC many times, but I never really had a desire other than to see the statue and possibly Central Park in the Empire State Building.

Back in the 80s a ladyfriend suggested we go to NYC for a day just for something different to do. We drove to somewhere in Conn. and took a train into the city. Way too crowded and noisy for me, but it was an interesting experience, though once was enough. We were back home that night.

 

[ultrarunner]

Kind of how I feel about Vegas... interesting to see once but no desire to return...

 

[tradosaurus]

Speaking of teachers….
Was talking to my wife the other night about her incoming class this year and behavior of kids in past years.

20 years ago when my wife started teaching, she would get a class of 20 kids and 1 or 2 would be misbehaved. She and her co-teachers now lament that a class of 20 kids today has 1 or 2 well behaved kids and 18 or 19 brats!
During conferences, she says she has noticed a lot of dysfunction in families in recent years. Kids forced to look at I-Pads with headphones from the age of 2, no socialization skills. Then the school gets that and they are a freakin mess. Parents “out to lunch” and more worried about the social media scores than raising good kids.

I feel for the pain your wife has to go through in the teaching profession. My wife taught high school for 2 years and by then most of the kids outgrew their medication.
Your comment about no socialization skills is interesting as that was the complaint people had about our decision to homeschool our kids until high school.

I'm amazed that people have kids and don't want to take care of them.

 

[tradosaurus]

Same goes for college students.
My Wife teaches med students and it’s unbelievable the amount of entitled, lazy brats that think they don’t have to do the work and demand that they get preferential treatment.
They whine and complain to my wife’s boss who just laughs at the ridiculousness of the students attitudes.
In order to pass these classes they have to do the work just like everyone else to graduate.
Some of them obviously never heard the word no from anyone so they should get whatever they want when they throw a tantrum.

Difference with college students is that you can actually fail them.

 

[two_bit_score]

The difference with college students is they can actually fail their classes if they do not perform.