9°C, grey, still.
Inset: Staff training session included an exercise in answering the question ” what are the main differences between contemporary teenagers and those of the 1980s & 90s? Primarily, it was an exercise in generating ideas collectively and with relatively little input from the leading teacher. This list contains some of the thoughts we agreed on;
Modern teenagers:
- No politics, no idealism
- they don’t exercise,
- they are contained, driven everywhere, kept indoors; are “cocooned”
- They are computer literate
- They are measured constantly; SATS, targets, exams, body weight, health tests, ‘friends’ and ‘likes’ and so on
- They are well fed
- they are wealthy
- they are afraid of risk
- they are afraid of “getting things wrong”
- they are image conscious
- they are argumentative
- they are shameless consumers
- they are physically unhealthy
- they are not ethical consumers
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