Monday, April 09, 2007
rant regarding the state of the youth
this year more than any of the ones before i am struck by the ridiculously indulgent parenting methods of the fathers and mothers of the kids in the school. unable to face the fact that the child might himself be deficient in some way, they threaten legal suits, haggle over marks, argue about random details and finally threaten media exposure. its as if they can bully their way out of a failure. if it was my father of mother doing this, i would have just died of embarrassment. instead these spineless kids of today stand in the shadow of their vociferous dads and simpering mothers hoping to trick their way out. and the friends of the so-called victims jump on the sympathy bandwagon for the underdog, tsk-tsk ing away at the unfairness of it all. all of these hold the institute to ransom threatening any standards of excellence that it may try and set. maybe that’s what all of them want- one big happy family where we treat everyone with kid gloves and facilitate a way for mediocrity to pretend to be success. is that the kind of place where they want to say they came from?
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sad n scary!....
i remember rajeev sayin this on almost the 1st few days of our 1st yr repeatedly...he said architecture is not going to be easy at al!...he told us that when he entered his undergrad school in the US, on th 1st day there were all told this:
look to ur left and look to your right.... either one of the people you see will definately not graduate with you!...
i guess our acad system is still lenient....
its difficult to believe it was a one-sided disaster. if it was a one-sided deficiency, perhaps they should have made sure of giving some kind of eye opener early on, instead of bringing someone to the last lap n saying u were not worthy of participation.?
-tapan
ouch ouch
it comes as a shock, and we don't know how to react.. we just become defensive about our classmates, i guess...
but before the fiasco where parents got involved.
that was what probably made us realise things we should've realised earlier.
and yeah, the kids are probably spineless because of ther indulgent parents. its difficult to think independently when ur parents interfere in your life so much... unless you realise that they do
truly brattish behaviour and when nothing else works throw a tantrum.
i wouldn't make it into a 'kids of today' thing at all. it reminds me of some kids i grew up with who threatened us with dire straits because of something or the other and their parents actually obliged by pushing us around, or making it into a parents' fight (delhi). this is just not done.
a rant about a class of 42 becomes a rant about 'the state of the youth'... super massive generalization alert!!!!
and slowly uve begun to sound like an old-timer.... 'in our time' n all.
but seriously, i take offence to clumping all of us together in that bunch... most of us are pretty much more independent than our previous generation used to be, less mamma's-boys and daddy's-girls. you will get a stray one here and there, but ignore it.
oh my dears, i well and truly realize that this sort of behavior is not a generalized pattern among all, or even that it is specific to the kids of today. i remember the same kind of nonsense happening even when i was in school- but since i was in borivili, adamantly middle class, it never seemed to be to this scale. i think it has also something to do with class and the way the child is protected in it. americans fetishize the innocence of childhood beyond belief, and at the same time teenagers rebel the most violently. here, mamas boys refuse to step out of the shadows of their parents at one end and on the other kids from jamnabai narsee calling themselves the ‘j-boys’ go on a rampage of independent hooliganism. and sid, this is a rant, where distortion makes for great rhetoric.
amita told us the blog is the thing for those who have nothing to do and make themselves feel useful by doing such nonsense.
now read this post. the comments.
life and its contradictions!!
-prachi
what is this word verification nonsense!!! i always get the longest words
-prachi
you know what? in a way a blog gets too much power. after all, only ONE writes, has the power to do ALL. its easy to lean on ONE side. i aint ever gonna know the other side of the story.
you might say i have a choice, to read or not. unfortunately true.
its like graphics. you have a choice to believe or not.but you dont always get to excercise the choice. and that to when no military force is used!
blogs do that. and rohan knows that. i worry.
after all everything has a conscience descision behind it.
its for the better. but i worry.
-prachi
so thats what amita thinks.. i wonder why..
what do you think, prachi?
are blogs a way for stupid people to feel important?
dunno bout prachi but whether stupid/intelligent, there is a big ego trip involved in a blog no? no offence meant if anyone wants to take it, but when one writes about one's life, its taking something that's ordinary and making it heroic.. big huge ego boost...n scary for some people
what about people who read blogs!
but seriously this is a big problem....nowadays medical certificates have become more important than academic ones ...not tht the latter is important but the former has become a way to achieve the latter
didn't understand the medical certificate bit of it... is it tapan?
it doesn't matter if blogs are important or not. we all indulge in it.
do you what you feel.
live in the moment.
neway, i want every one to know that the comment about blogs being too powerful.... it was meant not to say rohan is a ruthless, powerful man manipulating us or something but that we dont have to believe everything he says.
that'll be good for us and a relief for him.
dont mean to generalize or anything, its just that i did that.
-prachi
i mean i believed everything he said.
btw, aparna i think that medical certificate thing is probably that people make late submissions legitimate by producing a medical certificate. i think.
but i dont see why it has been posted here.
-prachi
wlktijsi!!! do any of you get such a long word verification!!
**** *** rohan!
no baba...th gumnaam post bout medical certificates wasnt mine....
-tapan
p.s. u didnt get wt it meant n so aparna u thought it had to be tapan.. quite a strong general perception i see thr
we have always fought for our class mates watever issue no matter what!
its like a cause!
neways my point being that no matter wat...rather who...the people who do dam well in this system or the people who dont ...wen u join a office u realise where u stand...and whether u can pass the 3rd year or any year in any the first shot holds no bar!!!
i know ure wondering blah blah!! but i have been thinking, and i needed to track down this conversation.....
i have come to a conclusion that yes, blogs are just timepass. nothing serious and a thing for those who dont have anything else to do.
if you wanna write, write..why necessarily on the net?
-prachi
i choose to write on the net because i want to.
there is such a thing as choice.
and prachi
there are other things that you can read..
on the net
or in the library.
ha ha, i knew that would be coming.:D
i read too, blogs that is, and am not denying it, but this was a thought that had started, and i had come to a conclusion, you had asked what i think, and i had an answer now.
-prachi
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