What is it with teenagers these day? (Rant)

I know I have no room to talk condencendingly towards teenagers (considering I am one, but a mere 16 yrs. old) however it's gotten ridiculous. I don't know if it's because I live in a rich little urban area, but every little person here is a prissy, spoiled load of idiocy.

I dont know if it's like this everywhere, but it's really frustrating me at this point. I have to work for everything in essence, while I do have a lot of privledges I find what most of the people in my High School are getting/getting away with. For instance...one kid.

-Got a new Ford Mustang GT, almost 40,000$. His parents pay every little bit, and the gas and all. Just because he got one B on his report card or whatever. He also has three labtops and two personal computers at home, and a second car on the way.

This is occurent for almost everyone in my school, except for the friends I surround myself with (purposely) who have a hint of intelligence. Seriously, one of the kids in my class (This is a -SENIOR- class by the way) went "The Dark Ages? Is that when it was night time a lot and stuff?" in full seriousness. I go to a private school, so there's no excuse on the intelligence note.

Want to know the tuition for my School (more of Academy it is deemed)? It's 10,000 per month, and these kids just throw it away like it means nothing. I'm pretty d*mn grateful myself, if I do good in this school I can get into a cr*ptone of colleges in the great stae of Florida here in a breeze. I'm not going to lie, I get a lot of privledges but I still got to work with them and I don't get none of this.

I don't want to feel jealous, but I can't help but feel frustrated how pampered these kids are and how they waste their intelligence away mindlessly. I find some solice in knowing these people will most likely be failures or ride on their parents and be totally incompetent in their later years, but still.

Not trying to prove a point or anything, just a little rant.

 

Being an adult of over 20 years of age I'll have to agree with you on teenagers these days most of them in my experience (not all) are pretty spoiled and lack a lot of discipline and responsibility. I mean if I asked my parents for a car or anything when i was a teenager they would say "well get a job then". They wouldn't help at all paying for it.

About the intelligence thing, I find it kind of sad of how little they are learning but I think a big part of that is young peoples and our countries view on schooling and education.

I'm very saddened and frustrated when I suggest young kids should try to get a good education and they say to me "why? all you really need is a GED" It's just unbelievable to me.

I mean if they don't want a education thats fine for me, means more job openings in the future if I ever need one .

My biggest beef though is how unpolite and rude kids can be these days I mean if acted even 1/3 as bad as a lot of these kids do my parents would have hung me outside on a tree. Especially if you play online games with them there is so much aruging, insulting and things being blown out of proportion its crazy. The thing is this is only problem with American youth as well. I mean I've played with some Japanese teenagers before on a Japanese server and they are so laid back and polite its crazy, it's just fun and relaxing to be around them.

 

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Hehe, that's one way to look at it ^_^ Easier for me to get a college application accepted especially with a scholarship with less competition

 

Well my man, If you think like that you have a bright future ahead of you. Don't mind your friends. Just pity them silently *-*

As Mr.T would say: I PITY DA FOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Even beginning an argument like this is ridicilous. Some people are just more off the radar than the general teenage population. I suspect many people on these forums are given the theme of this site. This has always been here and always will be here. Get over it, work and in ten years all of the sucker ups will be employees in your small corporation.

 

Call me spiteful, but I really can't sympathise with a private schooler complaining about kids being spoilt. Also, at a private school, there's a perfect excuse for unintelligence. Money. Simple as that. If these kids' parents have more money than they know what to do with, then their kids are going to wind up in a private school, and that's basically how it works, in that they're paying for their kids to have a better, more exclusive and more widely recognised education.

And it's not as though I'm poor or uneducated, so I'm not just being spiteful here, but hey, there are going to be parents who will pamper their kids within a millimetre of their sanity, and there are always going to be parents who are slaves to their kids and wouldn't know how to say "no" is someone asked them if they were willing to donate their live body to medical science. So, given that, where do you suppose these kids are going to go to school?

Also, the ultimate irony is how you are jealous of these guys, when our science pracs, at a public school, mostly consisted of things like burning wood, in which we'd hold a paddlepop stick over a Bunsen. And this was in year eleven, guys. A bona fide senior's Chemistry prac. What makes this even more humiliating is that the next Chem class to do the experiment needed to go outside to find sticks to burn during their lesson, because the science department had run out of paddlepop sticks. You're saying they're not grateful for what they've got, but just look at what we had!

I'd also like to clarify that this is a selective school, not some remedial school for those with less brain capacity than a brain-dead possum that's had its brain removed. A selective school.

 

You really had to find sticks and burn them?

All schools here come equiped with gas lines for bunsens.

 

No, the other class had to, and no, we were burning wood with the Bunsens.

Wood isn't a viable fuel for Bunsens.

 

No, that's a Bunyan.

Back on topic, I can back Itza up on that Public school is so grossly underfunded that it's ridiculous. I taught myself most of the way through high school and it's no wonder that public education has failed the less talented students of my generation. We had a 67% graduation rate of which less than 35% attended college of any kind. Community, state, public, or private.

That's just sad.

As far as dealing with kids that you think are spoilt, welcome to high school. It's always going to be like that and it's never going to change. Learn to live with it.

EDIT: @ Dark feel free to delete your post whenever you get your foot out of your mouth lol

 

Jon spamming?

Oh god.

Edit: Don't even play like that Jon. Your post was nothing but that first line when I posted this. So shush.

 

Ahoi matey, teenager responding here.

First off i have to say that your title is wrong, you are complaining about what parents do for their children, yet blame it on the children. Second off, you are right, stuff like this is getting out of hand because rich parents dont feel like not showing off their money, and the children dont grow up like most other children.

The existance of private schools is one of the roots of this problem as well, because when you put all rich people together, they dont feel held back by the other people around them, allowing them to do excessife things.

dont think i explained this well

 

Hmm. Are those kids MTV Super Sweet 16 spoiled, or is it just ridiculous? If it's at the ridiculous level, then they will fail. Just look at Paris Hilton and such. The hype is over. She'll probably end up working in one of her own hotels, since there's probably no way anybody will be stupid enough to let her inherit even more money.

Oh well.

By the way, high schools here have a 96% graduation rate. Hurray, we rock. To be we have 30.000 people quitting our form of "college" every year. And that's without the universities. (I think it's about 30% of all students.)

 

Growing up in a private boarding school I can see where your coming from. However, I don't really look at people's belongings and use that as a means to judge them... I mean seriously put your self in their parents situation... What if their parents grew up with absolutely nothing hmm? What if they want to give their children the childhood they never had? Give their kids a good life?

While I do think its quite sad the end result of parents spoiling their kids I think you missed the main point of why they bought that kid a mustang... He got good grades and they rewarded him for it. I mean if got all F's on the rest of his report card then.. yeah that would be a little retarded, but if the kid got good grades because he worked hard and studied then why the hell not? Hell if I had that kind of money, and my son studied hard and did well in school I'd give him a mustang as well. Not because I want to spoil my kid, or because I want to flash my money. But because I want to show him hard work pays off.

 

Did I read it wrong or you're attending school that charges 10 000$ per month? If that's right you really should stop giving a damn about them and just focus on your studying to thank whatever you believe in for your luck so far.

 

Oh I do, it just irks me somewhat.

Like I said in the OP, I don't have much room (I realize) to be complaining about kids having a lot of privledges and such considernig I do; however there comes a point when it gets to a ridiculous level in my mind. But hey, that's just me!

 

Geez, I earn like thirty times less than that and I don't get to complain because I'm paid for overtime...

No offense, I'm happy for you, bit jelous perhaps. And by 'bit' I mean a lot
You're far better off than most people I know and technically I don't even have it that bad myself. Don't let a bunch or morons bother you and make the most out of it. Focus on your own goals and don't compare yourself to others

PS: We have a rule against quoting the post right above yours, stick to it if you don't want to get on the mods' bad side

 

wait, $10,000 a month? That's more than what i pay for a whole semester of college... you sure it's not 10k per semester(which is still the average cost of most colleges)? Even if I had the money to burn, I would never go to a school for 10k a month, or send my kids to a school that expencive.

 

For a school that expensive i would expect cars to be included no but seriously that school must have an amazing campus. The schools I went to were expensive but that was because they had large sums of land and a lot of utilities and things kids could use.

 

You know Jseph, I sometimes wonder how they're so bloody cheap with that amount of tuition. It may be 10,000 a semester, that'd make more sense but hey; my school is so greedy I wouldn't be surprised if it was the former.

EDIT: Point taken about the quoting person above me

 

Starting to doubt the 10k thing.

http://www.southflorida.com/sfparenting/sfe-sfp-privateschoolmaindoc,0,5263043.story