The post implies the 30% of men in the class weren't giving him the time of day, either.

So, maybe it was an entire room full of NPCs. Maybe they were all psychic and he was just the odd guy out. Maybe it's a Greentext and you shouldn't take it at face value. Who can say? But as anecdotes go, the "everyone acted like an emotionally sterile zombie hobbling from class to class in a daze" sounds... out of line with my experience in virtually any social setting. Nevermind one with dozens of teenagers all packed in together.

Like, I've got a few friends who teach high school. And the "I've got these kids who won't stfu during class" stories are a regular part of the "how was your day?" conversation. What magic is happening between Senior HS and Freshman College that turns everyone's most pernicious socializing instincts off in this one guy's classroom?

Now, if I'm someone's parent and I'm talking to my kid after school... and I ask how their day was? Did you make any new friends? What's your homework? Can you name any of your teachers? Do you remember what grade you're in? And they just give me nothing because they're burned out? That's extremely normal.