I'm skeptical of this being pandemic related solely because I never see kids wearing masks at all, but obviously they don't have the money to buy them for themselves if their parents aren't masking and are more likely to just stay home in general so it's hard to know for sure. I haven't seen or heard a single teenager be like "it's fucked up everyone's pretending COVID disappeared when it didn't". I think anxiety is just getting worse in general and the pandemic and greedflation et al. are causing their home lives to be worse.
We also can’t discount the role advancing technology is having in atomizing and alienating kids from one another. I think it compounds the mental health crisis and especially adds to social anxiety
Not all homeschoolers are religious weirdos. My kids have been pressured to return to school, but they refuse to go. I was miserable at school as a kid, pretended to be sick many times so I could stay home, and would have been overjoyed if I could have just stayed there and studied on my own. I might have been drawn to high school for hormonal reasons but elementary and middle school were terrible.
Now, is it possible to like a thing religious weirdos also like without exposing a deep deficit within you? Of course! I’m sure many of them like pizza because pizza is fucking awesome. Shit, Donald Trump loves shiny shit, and so do I. But if you’ve just entered a room, and you find yourself surrounded by religious weirdos, you should probably ask yourself how you got there and what you need to do to leave.
(Unless, of course, you’re there on purpose. In which case, congrats on finding your tribe.)
Watch them blame lockdowns instead of being forced to return during a pandemic and school shootings
I'm skeptical of this being pandemic related solely because I never see kids wearing masks at all, but obviously they don't have the money to buy them for themselves if their parents aren't masking and are more likely to just stay home in general so it's hard to know for sure. I haven't seen or heard a single teenager be like "it's fucked up everyone's pretending COVID disappeared when it didn't". I think anxiety is just getting worse in general and the pandemic and greedflation et al. are causing their home lives to be worse.
Consider that damaged health from Covid infections might be a factor
We also can’t discount the role advancing technology is having in atomizing and alienating kids from one another. I think it compounds the mental health crisis and especially adds to social anxiety
i mean who hears anything beyond ironic jokes about school shootings until one happens and they do a march all the adults ignore?
Not all homeschoolers are religious weirdos. My kids have been pressured to return to school, but they refuse to go. I was miserable at school as a kid, pretended to be sick many times so I could stay home, and would have been overjoyed if I could have just stayed there and studied on my own. I might have been drawn to high school for hormonal reasons but elementary and middle school were terrible.
Now, is it possible to like a thing religious weirdos also like without exposing a deep deficit within you? Of course! I’m sure many of them like pizza because pizza is fucking awesome. Shit, Donald Trump loves shiny shit, and so do I. But if you’ve just entered a room, and you find yourself surrounded by religious weirdos, you should probably ask yourself how you got there and what you need to do to leave.
(Unless, of course, you’re there on purpose. In which case, congrats on finding your tribe.)