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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Mar 2, 2024 20:36:31 GMT -5
Well...
In this timeline I am born in 2011, so right out the gate that sets my parents births 20 years later too.
So I'm raised by two millenial parents, both of which would have graduated in the years I attended Middle/High School.
If in the same setting, I can tell you it would be a radically different environment and my parents would be radically different people because people who grew up in the 1970s and 80s don't have the same experience even if you kept their stories the same at their core.
I'd like to think I'd enjoy it but the me I am now wouldn't really be sure. 2004 me and this 2024 alternate me aren't going to be the same person because the experiences are just too different of the outside world.
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Post by Urn Anderson on Mar 2, 2024 21:14:43 GMT -5
With all of the dumb stuff we got into, I’m glad social media and cell phone cameras didn’t exist.
I would have much rather spent my teen years doing stupid Jackass type stunts with my friends and playing in bands than having my face glued to a screen watching TikTok.
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Post by Muskrat on Mar 3, 2024 4:24:05 GMT -5
I have teen coworkers, and none of it looks appealing to me. It seems like it'd be even more stressful now than back then. I used to be a head manager at a major fast food franchise, the high school staff had a great rapport with me, there is no world I would wanna deal with the shit they were dealing with. And that’s 10 years ago
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Post by SmashTV on Mar 3, 2024 15:55:35 GMT -5
No. I was a teen from 1988 to 1995, and I’m glad of it. Better films, better music, video games were more original, social media was but a dream. I enjoy social media, but I imagine if you’re a teen it can be an absolute nightmare.
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Mar 3, 2024 16:21:27 GMT -5
The only upside I can think of is the education system should be better now. My teachers were boomers who had been to teacher training college in the 60s, 70s, and 80s (some of the older ones will have been kids/teens during the war!) so their teaching methods sucked. ICT was a dozen Acorns that no one knew how to work. Sports were only a thing for rich neighborhoods (and pretty much boys only). Discipline was overly strict for everyone apart from the bullies/hard lads (who intimidated the teachers and probably had undiagnosed conditions such as ADHD). Interesting subjects such as history, art, IT, and foreign languages were barely taught (bc of a lack of quality teachers I think).
How good/bad the education system is now depends on where you live but I work in the sector (albeit in a different country to where I was educated) and it improves year by year. Kids get a better mandatory educational experience now at least. Of course, there are many downsides to being a teen these days most of which have already been mentioned.
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Post by agent817 on Mar 3, 2024 16:41:04 GMT -5
I was a teenager in the early-2000s. I am not the same person as I was then. I may have some of the same hobbies and tastes as I did then, but I can't imagine myself as a teenager in this day and age. Since coming back to school, even the young students in the 18-20 range seem different than how my generation was when I was younger. I don't like some of the fashions, especially some of the hairstyles.
I recall a few years ago, I came across a woman I went to high school with. She was in a grade above me, so we're around the same age range. Anyway, I told her that it was good we got out of high school when we did. I believe that when it hit the late-2000s to early-2010s, cyber-bullying became more of a thing, and I could not imagine being around people who go on the internet to ruin someone's life.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 5, 2024 9:01:45 GMT -5
Absolutely not.
Sure, I got plenty of homophobic abuse, but I was actually quite lucky, and social media now is just... we had MSN messenger and eventually MySpace and it really wasn't that big of a deal
Edit: also, absolutely f*** being at school or university during covid, missing your graduations, etc.
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Post by tafkaga on Mar 5, 2024 13:47:53 GMT -5
Nah we got the Internet when I was 16 and I didn't behave too well, and that was before cell phones, so with today's tech I'd probably have nudez all over the www.
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Mar 5, 2024 15:33:46 GMT -5
No because I developed much more of my personality and interests and gained a lot of maturity since leaving high school.
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Post by saneiac on Mar 6, 2024 14:16:53 GMT -5
The only upside I can think of is the education system should be better now. My teachers were boomers who had been to teacher training college in the 60s, 70s, and 80s (some of the older ones will have been kids/teens during the war!) so their teaching methods sucked. ICT was a dozen Acorns that no one knew how to work. Sports were only a thing for rich neighborhoods (and pretty much boys only). Discipline was overly strict for everyone apart from the bullies/hard lads (who intimidated the teachers and probably had undiagnosed conditions such as ADHD). Interesting subjects such as history, art, IT, and foreign languages were barely taught (bc of a lack of quality teachers I think). How good/bad the education system is now depends on where you live but I work in the sector (albeit in a different country to where I was educated) and it improves year by year. Kids get a better mandatory educational experience now at least. Of course, there are many downsides to being a teen these days most of which have already been mentioned. I went to Catholic school from grade 1 to grade 12. It was a pretty good education. But if there is one thing Catholics are good at, it’s not changing anything ever, so I would bet that 30 years later my schools are still pretty much the same as they were back then.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 7, 2024 21:00:34 GMT -5
The only upside I can think of is the education system should be better now. My teachers were boomers who had been to teacher training college in the 60s, 70s, and 80s (some of the older ones will have been kids/teens during the war!) so their teaching methods sucked. ICT was a dozen Acorns that no one knew how to work. Sports were only a thing for rich neighborhoods (and pretty much boys only). Discipline was overly strict for everyone apart from the bullies/hard lads (who intimidated the teachers and probably had undiagnosed conditions such as ADHD). Interesting subjects such as history, art, IT, and foreign languages were barely taught (bc of a lack of quality teachers I think). How good/bad the education system is now depends on where you live but I work in the sector (albeit in a different country to where I was educated) and it improves year by year. Kids get a better mandatory educational experience now at least. Of course, there are many downsides to being a teen these days most of which have already been mentioned. I went to Catholic school from grade 1 to grade 12. It was a pretty good education. But if there is one thing Catholics are good at, it’s not changing anything ever, so I would bet that 30 years later my schools are still pretty much the same as they were back then. At least it isn't like the public schools in this state. They get worse every year. And if you are a kid with special needs,most of the school now just stick all those kids in a room show them movies every day. then as soon as they are 18 give them a certificate of completion and kick them out. Got two neighbors who are mid to late 30s were never taught to read,write or how to count money at school in 13 years. Over the course of a weekend taught the younger one how to count money and basic adding. And they went to the school in the area I get told is the best in this half of the state. 32 years ago I graduated and the schools were shit back then. Still full of teachers that would let you do whatever you wanted if you played football or basketball. Or teachers that would tell us "show up dont cause issues and you get an automatic 80".
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Mar 7, 2024 21:25:31 GMT -5
I am not sorry at all I didn't have to go through high school in the age of social media.
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Post by Push R Truth on Mar 7, 2024 21:32:20 GMT -5
Imagining people having cameras in their pockets during my childhood would have been a nightmare.
That and I'm glad there's no permanent record online of stupid shit I said and thought 35 years ago.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Mar 7, 2024 21:50:37 GMT -5
Hell no, I’m glad my teen years were in the ‘90s. The closest thing we had to social media was the chat rooms on AOL (keyword: SUPERSTARS); I’m thankful that I finished school before cyber bullying became a thing.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 8, 2024 13:33:08 GMT -5
It’s all relative, I suppose. My teen years were obscenely traumatic for me. I had an undiagnosed form of muscular dystrophy (back then it was either Duchenne’s, Beckers, or you had nothing and needed to cowboy up and lift some weights, ya big pansy!). As a result, I was the ultra-scrawny kids that was an easy victim for bullies. I also was extremely socially awkward, so I never had anyone defend me either. I was also taught to not trust anyone who came to me to be “friends”, as my alleged friends spent months trying to fake me out with a fake secret admirer scheme that was so odious that one of my regular bullies felt the need to tell me about overhearing them laughing it up about it without even mocking me for it. He may have been a bully, but even he felt that went beyond the pale.
I was such an easy victim that the school staff also treated me horribly. It was a relatively small school (each graduating class was between 70-110 students total), so the entire staff knew every student I was frequently disrespected by teachers and staff. Whenever I got beat up on school grounds, I was almost always the one the staff blamed for it. I was treated as an annoyance for simply being there by some staff. They always shooed me away from being in any pictures taken in school.
That culminated most prominently at my high school graduation. The staff put together a large slide show presentation set to several songs typical of graduations at the time. They included a fair number of pics of every student graduating that day…..except me. Remember that part of them specifically going out of their way to exclude me from pictures? That meant they didn’t have any candid pictures of me to use for this slideshow. They realized this, of course, but instead of doing the sensible thing like catch me in the hallway and have me pose for a few pictures, they instead found a picture where I was off in the distant background. I looked like shit, was heavily slouching, and I had a black eye (frequent victim of bullies, remember?). Not only did I look terrible, but it’s even hard to tell it was me because they didn’t put much effort into enlarging the picture.
Yes, I focused on the neglect of staff here. The kids being awful is almost expected (though not being sent reunion invitations even today is a bit extra. I’d refuse to go anyways, but I don’t get the chance to refuse). I just find the supposed adults joining in to be galling. My youngest brother who is 12 years younger than me fortunately didn’t have such issues, especially being a star athlete, but he did get suspended 10 years after I graduated because he overheard a teacher disparage me to another teacher (apparently comparing me to a present student they also thought was pathetic) and cussed that teacher out for it. Remember, this was 10 years after I graduated.
Yeah, envision all of that and add in cyber bullying and catfishing. Smurf that.
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