Originally Posted By: AdamTSociety has drifted away from faith and religious beliefs.
People aren’t teaching morals and respect to the youth.
Everyone gets a participation trophy as a child.
There’s no recourse for laziness and no appreciation or acknowledgment of hard work.
Harder economic times than most have ever experienced.
My wife is a teacher in our local public school system. They were told to do away with recognizing first and second honor roll for the kids making good grades, and other things like attendance, etc. Teachers aren’t allowed to give grades below a 60, because the system doesn’t want kids to fail. Our former Governor did away with advanced classes as an option for the kids to take in high school grades.
These are just a few things that come to mind with what’s contributing to why we are where we are as a society.
i think this is one of the biggest issues we have right now.
everyone's precious little crotch-fruit can do no wrong and everyone wins just for showing up.
we've completely stopped teaching coping mechanisms for what happens when you get to the real world. nobody knows how to lose with grace and look at those events as a learning opportunity. they're taught to be perpetual victims. theres no longer a 'go back and get em next time by improving yourself' mindset. its always someone elses's fault.
theyre only taught entitlement and that they're supposed to be treated like everyone else when they fail, or that they always fail due to someone else holding them back - and the real world doesnt work that way.
throw in the fact that kids arent ALLOWED to fight back against their bullies anymore (thank you zero tolerance fighting rules BS), add in the social media they cant get away from it outside of school factor and you've got a recipe for a lot of the mental health issues that are seemingly everyday common now - or way more so than they were 20+ years ago - anxiety, depression, etc
so these kids find out that everything they've been taught is a lie (you dont get ahead for being an outcast loser with no work ethic, you cant fight back on those picking on you, etc), turn then loose on the real world, add in a bunch of media hysteria keeping the stress turned up to 11 all the time, and then they glorify these shooters for WEEKS on end every time one of these events happen....
of course some kid who's stressed out, anxiety ridden on their future, depressed because they get made fun of, has no support system at home and looking for attention is gonna go there. they dont know that bad press = not good. all they care about is someone finally acknowledging their existence.
do i think this is the end-all-be-all reasons?
not at all.
but they're sure a few big ticket items at the upper end of the list thats for [beeep] sure.