That sounds... like a judgement your class was meant to learn to avoid...

That seems so weird to begin with. Particularly since there aren't many Greatest Generation left, and Silents are well into retirement.

I don't think I could've sat there and not fucked that teacher up emotionally.

If you don't want kids to have participation trophies don't give them participation trophies. You didn't go out and buy yourself a trophy for everything, did you?

I pumped gas up hill, both ways, all summer when I was 16 and used the money to pay for college, buy a house, and invest in oil. You just need to try harder.

I guess I'm lucky to live & work somewhere where the system kinda works, but the boomers are a great well of institutional knowledge, and the kids are working hard and changing the game. The ball was kind of dropped in the late 90s & 00s, but now millennials have surpassed gen x in terms of responsibility & authority in my industry and the zoomers I've had the opportunity to train are legit. I'm not sure what happened to gen x, but they all seem kind of sad and/or lost.

Almost like its wealth disparity, not age, is causing the problem after all!