corey’s biggest crime at the winter classic was not knowing where his elbow was

absolutely nothing about that hit on ryan ellis was intentional

he took the game misconduct, spoke after the game to the media where he took accountability for his actions, personally apologized to ryan, reached out to him immediately and took his suspension with grace

but y’all wanted him crucified for it

And that’s the thing. A lot of these zoomers are mentally stuck in high school and think teachers aren’t people and have no lives of their own outside the classroom, so they should have to bend over backwards to accommodate students who feel like they have no obligation to meet the requirements of courses they signed up for. It’s the same thing when students are outraged that they face penalties for missing deadlines (when they don’t have accommodations from the university for a disability, of course), but teachers don’t make deadlines because they hate students, it’s because they have deadlines, too, and need to have the assignments turned in to give students grades! You don’t have deadlines because your teacher is a bitch, you have deadlines because that’s how the adult world works, and it doesn’t revolve around you.

Some of these zoomers even lie to get out of their responsibilities, too. Recently, again, a student emailed my mom like “oh I’m late to your class every day because I have a class before that, which ends in the first 5 minutes of your class, and my professor won’t let me leave early :(” And my mom was like, “….The university’s computer system literally would not let you register for a class with a scheduling conflict like that. I double-checked this with the head of the department.” And then the student got real quiet 🤡

Some people are just dicks, of course, but my mom thinks the increase in this behavior is from the pandemic. Her colleagues have been lamenting similar behavior in their classes, too, like students refusing to turn on their cameras for virtual classes and just not doing in-class activities online. They really just sit there with no microphone or camera all class, do nothing all senester, and expect to get full participation points or whatever.

It’s to the point that me and my whole division had a long meeting discussing the sudden influx in immaturity and disrespectful behavior and how best to wrangle it. There’s no pattern or predictable measure for who’s being troublesome—any income, any race, any gender, ALL of those categories have at least two or three individuals that are overwhelmingly destructive and unmindful. The only common factor is that it’s THIS year’s batch—the one fresh out of over two years of pandemic high school.

we saw some of the wildest levels of entitlement from both the parents and students. it was absolutely the kids whose last in school year was in 4th grade, and now they were in school, being expected to do 6th grade work

we have the kids who literally delight in telling teachers oh im gonna get you fired since you wont let me copy from my friends, who lie on teachers saying that we dont offer help, or explain things to them-meanwhile, when you try to sit with them to do the work or explain further, they spend the whole time speaking to their friends or cursing you out for asking them to focus