Zoom Education Has Failed An Entire Generation

As schools slowly return to in person classes, the education system and the students in it will never be the same. A year of Zoom classes and Google Meetings has forced teachers and students to adapt to more efficient means of learning at the cost of abandoning social circles. I interviewed students, teachers, and experts to help illuminate the uncertain future of education.
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[@linusbrown3108]

Hey, man, the music in this video was fantastic! I loove Earthbound, and some of these covers are my new favorites. What are the names of the songs you used for the video? You've got great taste, dude.

[@goodusermaadinternet6774]

@@linusbrown3108 yea all the songs were really good

[@kamillebidan1267]

I’d rather pilot a gundam

[@nitesy381]

please i need the link to the outro

[@nateclipps]

I’m hungry rn

[@Thetableishot]

As a wise man once said, “these teachers were deadass speed running lessons”. He wasn’t wrong.

[@jooot_6850]

mm, very wise

[@Meleeman011]

they sure were. dumbasses. all of them. all they knew how to do was sell their shitty product by scaring parents and children into submission.

[@boa9557]

@@Meleeman011 that was the system not them its hard to teach online

[@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070]

@@boa9557 It's almost like teaching and giving valuable resonate lessons through a cold screen miles away from teachers, friends, and peers is virtually impossile.

[@boa9557]

@@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 that's what I said dumbass

[@StupidHead-ur6um]

This year didn't feel like it happened at all. I feel like 16 year old sophomore trapped in an 18 year old graduates body.

[@ddurlon]

this.

[@bunnothebunny3286]

Same I still feel like a first year but I will be doing my junior cert this time next year and I haven’t learnt shit except screw teams.

[@heartheater07]

same haha, i was in middle school before all this started and now i'm in highschool. it just feels really jarring and i haven't actually learnt any shit

[@panagenda7103]

Damn I can relate. Before this I was in 8th grade and now I'm going to be a sophomore in high school next year its crazy

[@galactic3536]

SAME, i still feel like a highschooler but im in college now ;_;

[@propaneking2332]

I used to joke about "we don't need school in person, we can look up everything on KZbin!" I regret that immensely.

[@custom-r]

To some level that's true. But to be overly dependent on KZbin can prove harmful.

[@m.a.118]

@@custom-r KZbin is great for context, it's great for seeing points of view. But the lack of peer-review and research citing on many many maaannny videos is terrifying. As well there's "selection bias" so while someone might be really into WWII history let's say- They'll pretty much only focus on that very narrow stream on KZbin because they are guided by their own self interest. But then lack broadening views of other contexts, where for example colleges will require you to complete "X amount of credits from various streams" in order to graduate so you don't end up being that guy that rambles on about Rommel ad nauseum, but can't tell you who Mao Zedong was.

[@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252]

@@m.a.118 My view is that universities were created in the middle-ages, which is a long time ago and nowadays they provide staff with jobs and also act as a barrier between people and the job market; it is the biggest problem in countries where education is costly but it's a problem everywhere and it results in division where the people who have graduated want to keep the walls up and defend the system because doing so will lessen their competition; it is in the interests of school staff and former graduates to argue that people need degree programs from universities because that provides the staff with a livelihood and it ensures that most people will never be able to try for the jobs that the former graduates are holding even if they could easily do those jobs. Nobody in the middle-ages could have envisioned the internet and how so much knowledge is on our fingertips now or how people living on welfare are more well traveled than adventurers in the 19th century. Now with this said, originally universities only taught a few select subjects like law, philosophy or theology and it is a testament to the archaic nature of the system that theology is still taught in state funded universities in many countries. Over time more and more degrees were added and, if necessary, the degree programs were inflated in size to fit the founding degree programs for symmetry. This is problematic because a smart person could arguably become a teacher in a year instead of five years and many teachers tell you that outright in private. Even if we accept that something like medicine, which is either rightly or wrongly associated with high responsibility, high skill and large amount of knowledge, should be taught the way it is taught now that still does not mean that degrees that people get to be able to break down barriers into public administration or even private sector jobs should be artificially stretched out to last several years and cost people plenty of money as well. There are many degrees which involve zero manual skills; just oral and written presentation. Instead of demanding that people gnash their teeth through five years of essay writing, reading arbitrarily assigned specific books for sources and hoping they luck out and interpret the instructions for their course work correctly and that they will get someone to back up their thesis they could just be given one book or manual which lays out the knowledge they need to fulfill the requirements of vocation X and then these people could go to work and attain the required knowledge using whatever channel they like. Once they have acquired the knowledge they could sit in for an exam lasting anywhere between hours or days. The model or blueprint, if you like, for this kind of learning and qualification is already in existence in at least some countries, where anyone regardless of their background can sit in for a foreign language exam for a small fee and prove their knowledge and skill on their desired level. It is assumed that it takes over 1000 hours of study to become highly proficient in a strange language but it may be more like 500 depending on your use of time, skills and motivation...however long it takes is ultimately up to you; there is no professor lording over you and giving you a failing grade because he or she did not like your looks nor are you anguishing over vague instructions, mandatory class attendance or people making your life hellish in your dorm or school. You don't have to take public transport, cancel hobbies and carry other people's weight in group assignments or follow them around to see if they leave a comment at the last minute that you have to respond to pass the course. There's no mind numbing lectures about stuff appealing to the slowest learner where you are almost falling in asleep only to be alerted halfway through to some snippet of information that you were not privy before.

[@petelee2477]

@@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252that kind of system kinda already exists it's called certifications.

[@miesvaillanykyisyytta3252]

@@petelee2477 I'm not sure if we're on the same page here but in my country at least you have to pass five years of university to get a master's degree and that includes numerous courses and a thesis; work practice is included in the courses. Theoretically, depending on the institution of higher education, you may be able to waive some courses based on prior work experience or study but it's up to the teacher to decide if they want to cut you any slack. I did not even mention these massive hindrances yet but if you want to study in a uni you might have to spend years just getting in and once you get in you might have to move to another town or even country to get your degree. My argument is that in many cases people should not have to apply to uni at all or pay money for courses; they should be allowed to sit in for an examination (for a fee or not) if they feel that they have the skills or knowledge to apply for a position that requires a certain degree.

[@mikeyharte9]

I absolutely loved online classes because they allowed for me to exploit the already horribly made school system and create free time for myself where I could pursue my personal passions and goals.

[@tizodd6]

It's great or self-starters. I'm the same way...much more productive when I'm able to go at my pace. I think we're in the minority though. Most people need their hands held.

[@TomSawyersLeftNut]

Most kids don't have personal passions or goals, so most kids didn't get that same benefit.

[@alucard4448]

Yes!I love them for the same reason but we are in the minority

[@austinfydenkevez6923]

Still doin online for that reason

[@richiknair9036]

Lol pretty much. I just watched YT and anime during classes lmao 😂

[@concon1629]

I just finished this school year. It felt like a total waste of time I didn’t learn anything, and considering I have ADHD it was even harder to focus on actual school so my grades dropped terribly, I don’t know why anyone considers zoom school to be an alternative.

[@AsteroSloth]

As someone with ADHD. It actually helped a lot. Physical school was sooo strict. Now I can adjust volumes, listen to (instrumental only lmao) music. I can ACTUALLY listen to what the teacher says since I’m using headphones, so I won’t get distracted listening to birds chirp, or tuning in to someone else’s conversation - OH AND THAT. Everyone being quiet WORKS SOOOOO WELL.

[@nicolejasien5322]

@@AsteroSloth That’s good to hear for you! I’m currently using FLVS Flex which is a flexible version of online school and thankfully has a healthier number of assignments to turn in depending on the pacing (3 assignments per class per week in a 16-18 week pacing for one semester). Even though it isn’t perfect in the sense of explaining every little thing, it does work better for me. I just hope online learning will adapt to what people want because a lot of people struggle with Zoom and I agree with what they say in their experiences. And @concon, I’m sorry that online school has been an awful journey for you, I hope when a few years pass by that you’ll eventually find your way in the world ❤️.

[@prakesh2904]

I mean it’s better than COVID tho. I had it, and it sucked ass. I’m lucky only a few people close to me died of it.

[@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274]

Oh if people simply stayed home

[@concon1629]

@@prakesh2904 I’d rather be sick than lose an entire year of my life that effects my entire generation. Not saying covid isn’t bad just being healthy and a teenager compared to older people it might suck but less of a risk you feel me

[@Jellyman4]

School is no longer about learning,it's about passing.

[@quisquiliarum7710]

yeah this exactly

[@Jellyman4]

@@quisquiliarum7710 😎👌 Aight so Imma edit this comment so ppl will hopefully see: Ik it's always been this way,but it's showing now more than ever,the more y'all spam with with that I'll just reply the same thing like a bot lol Edit 2: CAN YALL READ THE REPLIES BEFORE GOING "It's always been that way"

[@not420blazeit]

It never was. Always has been.

[@Jellyman4]

@@not420blazeit True

[@equinox2584]

Not just passing but excelling, "I'm disappointed you have 3 B's" -my parents

[@kaywinter5232]

I’ve had teachers make the tests overly hard to “compensate” for those who may be cheating since it’s online, average for each test went to the 30s and 40s. It was ridiculous.

[@emeraldpopcorn]

That’s just an open invitation to cheat, tbh. I wouldn’t even feel bad about it at that point.

[@saneperson2]

Might as well play their game and cheat 🤷‍♀️

[@theslamjamfrincisco2820]

All it did was FORCE students to cheat, when I got multiple 1 hour assignments from math PER DAY, and all I had to do was look up the worksheet name and save 3 hours of work. Or I could spend 3 hours doing repetitive work that was inflated to make it “harder” to cheat.

[@spencerstevens2175]

@@theslamjamfrincisco2820 what do you mean look up the worksheet name? The teachers are giving you "open source" homework and tests etc and arent even making their own for their classes? What the fuck are we paying these idiots for?

[@fromulus]

In a perfect world, you'd complain about the cheaters that caused the problem rather than those that only wanted to make sure you're learning, because you know, it's their job.

[@emanuelecerri6502]

I'm Italian, and my experience with online education is terrible. The teachers think that we like being in front of a screen, so they're charging us with even more online homework. There was a period during which I was in front of my computer for at least 10/12 hours every single day, even on our free days. Homework was just too much, and during this summer they gave us lots of book to read, and, even if reading is one of my favourite activities, I just wanted to re-live my social life during the only three months of freedom that we're allowed to live. I now fear going to school. I want my life back.

[@gabry94ita42]

Ciao, ti capisco benissimo, stessa cosa anche per me. Ora sono all'università ma praticamente a causa di una pessima educazione scolastica e per molti professori che non sapevano gestire bene la situazione ci siamo ritrovati tutti con scarsa preparazione per il futuro. Non so come sia da te

[@emanuelecerri6502]

@@gabry94ita42 quest'anno dovrò fare il quinto liceo, con un esame di stato "normale" per il quale nessuno di noi sarà pronto

[@gabry94ita42]

@@emanuelecerri6502 quale liceo frequenti? Guarda, almeno se sei al classico o allo scientifico va bene, io sono stato a uno delle scienze umane, davvero terribile e che non ti lascia niente di base per l'università

[@emanuelecerri6502]

@@gabry94ita42 scientifico, non pensare che sia meglio però. Si fanno più materie umanistiche che scientifiche, non servono a nulla per quello che una persona che va allo scientifico vorrebbe fare all'università

[@jamesgroccia644]

Not the only one, dude. I had a fucking horrid experience learning both physics and calculus with online learning. I had to watch a slew of videos on KZbin and Khan Academy to just scrape above failing both classes

[@CHEFPKR]

The A Silent Voice intro

[@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274]

Just wait for it

[@xxlolkirby64xx22]

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the X on the faces

[@megasplashx7484]

Thats what I'm saying (google show me this guy's ba-)

[@mistadude]

I just watched a silent voice a few days ago

[@guysidontknowhowtowritehel1220]

My favorite movie of all time

[@YBPaladin]

The only thing I learned from Zoom/online learning is that Teachers take questions/answers from Quizlet

[@Vinesaucefan101]

no, they’re using the same material in physical school, just the fact we used a STANDARDIZED source of learning

[@OseiTheWarriors]

They were doing that pre pandemic as well

[@Bukwheat]

All I’ve learned is how easy it is to find answers online

[@vince2969]

@@Bukwheat yeah I've been cheating on tests ever sence we started doing this

[@paprikaa117]

I learned the importance of mathpapa

[@jantube358]

In university I have to admit that finding "new friends" online is really hard because nobody talks to each other in private, everybody is always in classes and there is no "social space" without any college staff.

[@kaywinter5232]

Same. Just got back on campus and actually met my classmates who have taken the same classes as me for the last five semesters.

[@pa1ntsniffer207]

currently retaking my entire 10th grade year because 4 credits and a teacher that didn't like me

[@AbdAbdAbdAbd]

the only place where people interact in my school is a whatsapp group, we have IRL school but you can't socialize go outside of your class eat drink its basically jail with 30 minute lessons

[@AbdAbdAbdAbd]

despite us not being allowed to socialize, kids talk in class when the teacher doesn't pay attention, also its now like 13 kids per class room maximum, they allowed phones in class to check on your covid status via an app, but kids end up using their phones to check social media and to take photos.

[@spencerstevens2175]

Go out and meet people. Fuck these lockdowns man.Just go do what you want to do. N o one is going to say shit to you that has any actual authority and if someone says anything tell them to piss the fuck off. The karens are all bark and no bite

[@patricklewis9787]

Zoom classes made me, a very introverted person, not realize how much I can yearn for just normal human interactions from time to time

[@silent_sniper3304]

Zoom classes were oly around for 6 months. This guy is exaggerating

[@patricklewis9787]

@@silent_sniper3304 in my state it went around March 2020 to April 2021 so exaggerate these nuts across ur face

[@Lawnmower737]

@@patricklewis9787 Dude, you murdered that guy 😂

[@alisonargayosa7729]

@@silent_sniper3304 tf then why do i still have zoom classes then

[@theslamjamfrincisco2820]

@@silent_sniper3304 March 2020 to September 2021 isn’t that bad huh?

[@kaywire6099]

Can’t speak for all students, but online learning for me was like trying to learn an entire curriculum through KZbin videos.

[@user-el6lt8fr3x]

My history teacher just taught us with pre-recorded lectures. Literally we’d log into class, do a maybe 3-5 minute review, and then leave class to watch the lectures for the rest of the period. You didn’t even need to watch the lectures cause the answers to the tests were easily available online and were 100% accurate.

[@zentempo7902]

@@user-el6lt8fr3x thats what ive had to do this whole year lol

[@joshlangerak5523]

Honestly I liked online school, I have no issue learning from websites and videos

[@mariyah7236]

Learning the curriculum would’ve been easier

[@OneBoredCatbug]

It was probably like that for everyone.

[@bartin7222]

I'm so burned out due to remote learning. Used to be a scholarship student back when it was stationary, and now the only thing i think about is how to pass the next class with minimum time and effort.

[@lmahu6627]

I'm in the same boat as you. The burn-out for me was so bad that I didn't even enroll for the second semester.

[@labadaba5088]

Really? What sort of classes are you taking?

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

@@labadaba5088 Did engineering classes and even dropped out because of it... There was nothing sensible in doing engineering online.

[@crisptomato9495]

Yup. Figure out what the teacher wants, do it in just enough time to make it look decent, and bullshit your way to a passing grade.

[@labadaba5088]

@@mwanikimwaniki6801 Oh yeah, definitely my friend's doing Robotics but couldn't do anything because it was all online. Are you in high school or college?

[@j-lo5079]

I felt so bad that I didn't pass my grade, and had to repeat the year, but after this video, I know I'm not alone. Thank you, it makes me feel so much better knowing I'm not the only one who struggled.

[@a2ina2]

You are so not alone. I know many students who are repeating after last year.

[@BlackCherryZyn]

Online learning doesn’t work

[@Hevvvyyy]

Right there with you. I graduated at my local cc last summer and transferred to a university awhile after and my GPA tanked severely because of online learning and a combination of different factors. I barely passed calculus 1 in my last semester there because online learning was hard and ik my teacher went easy on us because of the pandemic.

[@weirdflex8158]

@@BlackCherryZyn it does your just lazy

[@weirdflex8158]

you should feel bad lol I hope you do better this year though

[@furiousdiego6204]

I resonated with what one of the students said where you felt that if you messes up once, it felt impossible to catch up and at one point you just gave up

[@marcusbornman2098]

So relatable it hurts

[@Nimble.tkl1]

I relate, it's bad

[@asternaut8254]

missed a whole section in english literature because i missed a single lesson from stress and fell right into a depressive state once i realised catching up would be impossible

[@miles7267]

Same thing, I failed english one quarter because I kept on forgetting to check all the new websites the teacher was giving us assignments on

[@robbindahood2164]

things are looking grim. schools really are worthless atm. kids today have potential to learn so much from the internet, but these school systems are broken.

[@legojangofett1088]

I stopped actually learning stuff in like 6-7th grade. Basically everything else is from the internet

[@stephenlee1664]

I learned more chemistry from the organic chemistry tutor youtube channel than I ever did in my fucking chem 105/106 college course.

[@lst9701]

The internet is a noob trap. We need to bring forth the new age of knowledge and bring back books

[@mclilzenthepoet2331]

@@legojangofett1088 me too bro i legit don't know shit about math since i bassicly skipped my entire year

[@mr.p215]

@@mclilzenthepoet2331 the way you phrased it, it sounds like its your fault and less the education system, "since I skipped the entire year."

[@mmklthn]

Online school is tough. I thought it’d be easier for me, considering how I always avoid interacting with people, but now I’ve just been procrastinating and cheating through all my assignments, I know it’s not a valid excuse but still. The school year ends in a few days and I’m trying to complete as many assignments as possible so I can get my grades up. But it seems so pointless now.

[@thatpunygirl___149yes8]

Finally someone who understands me. Seriously schools out here treating me like an adult. Adults are doing the same boring shit as us, but there is one significant difference. THEY GET PAID FOR IT. They really expect me to sit at an computer and work with the attention span of an adult without giving me any motivation to do so? If adults sit at the computer for long they get paid. What do we get? A letter. I can’t do the work the way you want me to if I’m not motivated. I’m not saying we should get paid for going to school I’m saying that when you don’t give people proper motivation to do something you won’t get proper work done in return. I got off online school with A’s B’s and anxiety galore. Even during summer I feel anxious about school work. WHEN THERE IS NO SCHOOL WORK. This shit messed me up so bad- 😭

[@kabirthepunjabi]

Just drop the classes

[@soknyyy1536]

Literally. And my school wants us to take the finals IRL when we learnt barely anything.

[@yygamma3905]

I can relate didnt really cheat just accepted my fates tbh

[@benevolent5146]

@@soknyyy1536 i just had my 4th final today and it was irl i still have 6 more to go, it was so fucking frustrating cause the entire year was online then boom 2 weeks prior to the exams they released the news that they’re in person, so basically come or fail.

[@av0q3do]

It's the fact that the transition was extremely rushed, there wasn't time for anyone to adapt to the new learning style.

[@Ryan_Duckworth]

High-school Class of 2020 here, our year was cut short at the very beginning of the pandemic. We went on spring break, and never returned. We did online classes through teams and it was a DISASTER. My family was in a horrible financial state from the pandemic so I ended up working full time to help make ends meet while also doing online class. Of course the result of this was me going fucking insane, I worked at Walmart with an abnormal schedule to get all the hours available, which meant that literally every single day for nearly 6 months I was getting up and going to bed at completely different times. I would work 7am-3pm one day, the next 11am-7pm, the day after that 3pm-11pm, then another 11am-7pm, then a 7am-3pm...... it was ruthless. I gave up doing a majority of schoolwork beyond getting 50% because I just couldn't handle it anymore, they assumed because of the pandemic that everyone was just at home all the time doing nothing so they gave students MORE work than they normally would. I hated every aspect of my life, my job was TERRIBLE, school was literally impossible, I got completely fucked. It was mentally, physically and emotionally draining. I think working retail through the bulk of the pandemic really killed me on the inside, I can't really put into words how abusive of an environment it was. a few months after grad I couldn't even remember what classes I was in. completely worthless. I got literally NOTHING from school. I cannot think of a single life skill it has taught me. It makes me angry to think that I used to actually try pretty hard at it, I was an honour roll student, and for what? wasted effort.

[@infamous6283]

Hope your doing better now brother I'm so thankful I graduated highschool in 2016 before all this went down I would've gone insane

[@liam3044]

Yeah there was not a single assignment that I haven't cheated on.

[@xtootx421]

Warning: long tangent So my small Christian school shut down (I'm not a Christian btw) and I was forced to do homeschooling this year with NO help from my teachers I had to check everything and pretty much be the teacher and the student it has affected my physical and mental health so bad and this whole year I've cheated on all the test (I could pass without cheating I just didn't want to put more stress on myself) and now I'm a little bit behind and having to do an end of the year test (which is stupid because my state said the schools didn't have too but I have to do bullshit right? My ma is trying to fix that issue) anyways all in all this year has sucked as and getting motivation is so God damn hard. Sorry for ranting

[@juch3]

Sometimes online school feels so demotivating that I don't even bother with cheating, not because I don't want to, but because I don't even have enough energy to put an effort for school, even if it's cheating.

[@DacLMK]

That's what I did before we went online. For me my computer and the internet has been the best school of my life.

[@ExaltedWaffle]

This has been my worst year ever, my grades drastically dropped, i stopped talking to friends who i talked to daily, i have 0 motivation at all and can't adapt to online school at all, i miss going to class where i know how much time I'll have for myself and school seeing the stupid shit my classmate's did and also bickering with my friend's, i have no fucking clue if I'll even pass at the start i thought it was going to be easier but for me it's been much much harder

[@AforAlexy]

i said f it to everything because i don't plan on staying here for longer

[@oneofakind9995]

I don't miss people but I feel the same about grades. I'm just gonna be like a plant and do what I'm doing and not care about the outcome kinda.

[@cainschamber]

Sorry it's unrelated but nice desu2 pfp

[@-cactus.raven-]

I may hate school but I thank the rigid structure of it, I know that’s going to happen, when, and how long it will last. And when school was over you went home and you were, well, HOME. That separation just wasn’t there this/last year

[@CCodenameken]

Exactly how I felt

[@timbledon32]

I'm a med student and can safely say online school has been pure pain like how are we supposed to do things like CPR with a powerpoint presentation only

[@phoenixrising4995]

Shit school, same thing with my online classes in working from heights training. Isn't ironic I'm learning about spot checks and fall procedures off of 3 story buildings or higher being 6ft underground in a basement, lol! How is someone who needs safety training going to properly do it right, through a damn screen.

[@caesar7978]

I was grinding for years in school and as soon as I started to get all A’s Covid hit. After that I went right back to failing

[@alisonargayosa7729]

Damn. Same, but on social skills. I finally had friends and Covid fucking ruined it.

[@fallenoak4560]

Same. Damn I was getting good in math before the pandemic hit.

[@crazyfriend50]

@@alisonargayosa7729 you dont lose friends like that? What the fuck did you do to them

[@alisonargayosa7729]

@@crazyfriend50 We kinda just stopped hanging out because we don't really have anything in common except for school, so yeah.

[@LilXancheX]

@@alisonargayosa7729 you could still meet up outside of school lmao. If you only friends cuz of school then you’re not really friends at all

[@automobile2512]

14:47 exactly this. Missing assignments and getting low grades didn't make me want to do better, it just made me feel like shit, until I eventually just stopped doing any work.

[@hashbrownslinging-slasher872]

God, what a perfect quote. You really captured the problem a good chunk of people are dealing with. The struggle is this: there’s a group of people who are motivated by struggle and friction, but, there’s a whole array of people who are crushed by added discouragement. I really hope one day this kind of challenge is actually addressed, instead of just ignored and left to fester.

[@vonknee]

this was the first year my grades have been consistently shit through and through-- my parents were constantly on my ass about how i was “lazy” n junk. they just don’t understand how draining this year was; my mental health hasn’t been this shit in a while.

[@Trash_boatt]

Literally same bruv like I just gave up idc anymore

[@TheFatMarioBros]

Dude that’s exactly how my brother felt and my parents just said “oh my god how does that even make sense”

[@jellopackets3770]

TW mental health, suicide. Same here. Ive always had problems with mental health, but jesus this made it so much worse. I already have low self esteem, so logging onto classes and hearing im missing 40 assignments, then getting yelled at by my parents, getting yelled at online, there have been a lot of times where ive been scared of seriously hurting myself this year.

[@yoke155]

I'm gonna be honest. I've only learned a couple useful things in my classes this year. Teachers are too strained and overburdened to teach good, consistent lessons. Most student's are uninterested in school. People that I've talked too compare it to a 9-5 job than school. All of the interesting parts about highschool, field trips, events, football games, pep-rallys, ect have been stripped away because of covid. And your just left with work. Baron, and nothing in-between. It doesn't help that half of the student's aren't actually participating and class. And most districts are just picking their noses making half-assed decisions that don't really benefit anyone or make sense. A shitty situation made worse by bad management and overbearing student's and teachers. essentially.

[@donnycorn3086]

Same here. The fact that our activities were broader and more engaging last year turned into a hauling unmemorable lump of coal. Christmas performance was supposed to be the greatest ever in our school's history but turned down to shite because our principal was to damn busy to sign the papers. Oh, and things gets worse by the time I got back home here. There's only one more week, but after 2 weeks learning like this, the school gave us the exact opposite thing they promised: screen time.

[@yuri-xf4qw]

i have haven't been able to learn anything you get no special attention if you don't know something you cant really ask them to help isn't that the point of education? to learn from your mistakes.

[@reedplaysgames]

Honestly I don’t really have a problem with the learning aspect of online school, in fact my grades are better than they would be in regular classes, but man I am sooo glad it’s over. My grades have been good, yes, but online school is SUPER taxing. My social life is nonexistent. I have never seen my classmates outside of brief glimpses, and know nothing of their personalities. So much for making friends, then.

[@Kay-io5gx]

Oh yeah the fact that online school is just raw school in its laziest most depressive state doesn't help LMAO field trips, dances, and sports games were the shit. Actually most of them weren't that great but at least I had friends to complain and make fun of it with. I haven't even talked with a person my age in-person in just over 6 months as I just moved and know nobody. I feel so damn alone.

[@mickykannalles8289]

I had to do more work actually because the borders of when it's school time and when it's free time vanished. Teachers did more lessons than allowed, did them in our pauses, after or before our schooltime. They used the digital homework system to request work for under normal circumstances impossible times. Everything is documented, every little flaw saved and every moments of procrastination gets back at you heavily affecting your grades. I don't really want to blame our teachers here, they did a good job in a new situation, just lacking the ability to understand certain consequences in the cyberspace. This is a general problem with online school.

[@Xeno_Channel]

A HUGE part of school is the social aspect, something you can't replicate virtually.

[@errwip3070]

I didn't experience zoom learning, but one thing I have an issue with regarding school is that not everyone is gonna understand the same topic of a subject at the same pace. I always struggled with geometry and even more so with probability in school. But algebra? I was bored out of my mind that's how easy it was for me. Something like Khan Academy is amazing because it allows you to spend as much or as little time as you need on a given topic. Another thing that I've noticed on KA and other online learning platforms is that people really aren't afraid to ask really dumb questions. And I mean questions they had the answer to, if only they payed attention to the video lecture. When was the last time a student raised their hand when a teacher asked if everyone understands the topic? So it baffles me that there are teachers who elect to structure their zoom lecture as if it was a regular classroom.

[@CARMENRodriguez-ch7sd]

This

[@legojangofett1088]

Out of *every* dystopia I could’ve been born into, it was this one

[@daviddoesstuffandthingigue966]

And then boomers tell you to shut up bcus we have technology even though that makes it worse since we get addicted to it and how their time was so much harder,we're so weak etc,etc

[@MooseMeese101]

@@daviddoesstuffandthingigue966 exactly, it’s literally disgusting

[@smallben7744]

Postmodernism :|

[@ogifull632]

I wish we could just vaporize china off the face of the earth, just a big crater, of emptiness.

[@NexusKirin]

I could’ve been born in a time where sword fighting is a sport(and I’m not talking about fencing) and it was at least more popular than golf. Nope, computer sadness

[@snazzy_tomato6790]

I got so stressed this year I pretty much said "fuck it" and basically threw the entire year. It really got me depressed because I realized pretty early on that there was no way that I could conform to the system and I genuinely contemplated suicide a few times. I would say that I hope that the government would take notice but it's already shown that our country is run by a bunch of out of touch and incompetent idiots

[@nonam1115]

So sorry to hear that man hope things become better for you it been a rough time for me as well we will eventually get thru this.

[@goodboispiffy]

I feel you. That’s exactly how I felt..I hope you are feeling better now and I hope the best for you. Don’t hurt yourself in anyway. You deserve to live. You are a talented being. 🫂

[@surelysomething9301]

I felt that way as well, but hopefully things will get better for you.

[@joaopaul0500]

Hope you are doing well currently, things are pretty shitty here in Brazil too, our dumbass president rejected 13 vaccine purchase bids, nobody is giving a damn about the virus and things are just getting worse. God help us all.

[@genericperson753]

@@joaopaul0500 ironically here in the United States people dont want to take the vaccine however are fine with have parties with no maskes and wonder why they got sick.

[@diamondrhino64]

I had a professor who told us (the guys in class) are not allowed to wear hats in class. We're in our fucking bedrooms. It's a bit baffling.

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

I never understood teachers trying to control children's personal life and property

[@darianstarfrog]

@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 that's what school is.. to make us good drones

[@peterparkerlspiderman5398]

Your teacher is probably a dumbass don’t let him control your life. Otherwise he will make you looklike stupid forever and dumb

[@LilXancheX]

@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 they used to do that shit when I was in school

[@rainbow_vader]

Richard: we have fast internet speeds Also Richard: *running at 3fps*

[@kaiidos]

As a usually straight A's, high scoring student, this year has been incredibly challenging for me. Both because of the disorganization and the effect that isolation has had on my mental health. I honestly don't feel like I actually learned anything- I was just relearning old stuff from last year and blindly forcing my way through lessons while praying that my hours of studying would be worth it.

[@kapildeshmukh7878]

Same. I had a 4.0 GPA but in online examinations everybody started cheating. It got really bad, people who were failing previous courses were topping the class. They had to revise the grading system and as a result I will lose my scholarship this year.

[@johnhitz4442]

@@kapildeshmukh7878 I feel bad for you man.

[@theviking0120]

Same. I was also a straight A student. My average for this year was a C+. I personally cannot wait to go back to school again in the fall.

[@itgetsworsetm9856]

I don't like the fact that I relate to every word you just said

[@BigWinsAllDay]

same, used to always top my classes, my grades are still reasonably good but everyone else's is just better, cuz well everyone's cheating, im pissed but hey there's nothing i can do about it. We'll get through this together brothers

[@chimpsimp9879]

Honestly the problem isn’t JUST with online school, it’s with the entire school system teachers are uninspired, staff doesn’t get payed enough to care about the students, the people in charge only care about their image, and the kids don’t feel motivation to put in effort because the whole system is a joke at least in America

[@ilikestuff9250]

I can assure you it's the same out here...

[@elizrebezilmadommdo1662]

Is there any educational school system that isn't screwed up? It seems too good to be true.

[@chimpsimp9879]

@@elizrebezilmadommdo1662 Finland is supposed to be good

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

"the people in charge only care about their image" They're just trying not to lose their job via wrong speak

[@wintrysnowflake3385]

There's also the fact that some (ehem, many, in fact) schools dish out substandard modules and lessons. Oh, and I won't forget to take into account the shitty Internet connection in my country too.

[@flop22222]

So much of this video details exactly what I'm going through in college. I've been challenged to organize and motivate myself in an isolated environment and I completely failed. I have since given up completely to soon be consumed by the incoming mountain of student debt that will swallow me whole all in the span of a year online university. I have no life skills and no way to deal with what is to come. I'm living on a lifeline maintained by a string of lies that will soon be cut. At least now I know that I'm not alone.

[@sonice9020]

i felt this very hard

[@yasamanmansoori2789]

Damn dude. Best of luck to you, truly

[@DK-tv6rk]

I’m lucky that even though I live in a country that has even worse education than the US at least I don’t have to deal with student debt

[@pratyushakumar9636]

I realised how bad it was when my teacher thought I was a model student just because i didn't cheat and because I turn my camera on in classes, when I don't even remember a single lecture of hers.

[@autisticsonicfan]

"Zoom Education is Failing an Entire Generation” Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa

[@BeanOnTheFlipside]

@@gcph5830 was?

[@BeanOnTheFlipside]

Ice is cold

[@maryammadihah7712]

Fire is hot

[@railman3549]

Mirrors reflect light

[@americanmetalhead7318]

@@gcph5830 water isnt wet, water makes things wet. Saying water is wet is the same as saying fire is burned; but obviously fire is not burned, fire burns things

[@thatpresident3141]

Lads I'm gonna be honest my social skills got fucked up this year and now I'm moving to a completely different place, and now I'm stuck here thinking "well shit"

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

maybe its a fresh start

[@hah-no.]

@@GlinkBetweenWorlds dude. I’m autistic. If your thought your social skills were screwed, say “Thank you Jesus” you aren’t me. God bless you all

[@bigbirdo6185]

The only thing that got fucked up for me was my eyesight

[@hah-no.]

@@bigbirdo6185 and mine is just starting 💀

[@indisciipline]

@@GlinkBetweenWorlds as someone who was in a similar situation no it is not

[@cosmicsugarbunny1832]

I had to drop out of college cause I couldn’t handle online classes. I tend to pay attention in a physical class than a zoom class. Having my room where I sleep and goof off also become a classroom where work needs to be done was frustrating…

[@annam255hh]

Same

[@theceoofcrackcocaineandamp9477]

Same, but also who the fuck learns how to become a fully qualified electrician in online classes for 3 hours a week with mobile data on a phone, good thing I fucked the whole course off to drop acid daily and ruin my own life on my own terms. Also my online classroom account somehow linked to my google account which was connected to my KZbin account so I was attending lessons and submitting coursework as The CEO Of Crack Cocaine And Amphetamines and I tried to play it off like aha that’s funny, it’s not a big deal, but it was since all the online stuff is monitored and made them look like bad teachers who couldn’t control or teach students threatening their jobs. Systems great I hope my children attended online school and learn how to communicate with a human by age 40.

[@weirdflex8158]

dang your that soft

[@theceoofcrackcocaineandamp9477]

@@weirdflex8158 I woke up and broke my eyelids, yes.

[@CheerUp2]

I work from home for my job and i live in a studio with luckily a kitchen separate (where i made my office). Its really hard to get into work mode when you are in a space thats men for sleep and relaxation. Like its mentally hard to separate that. If you work in bed youre brain is gonna be like "sleep time?" and you wont end up working properly

[@michael3545]

"Acedemic dishonesty" they would tell me, as most of my professors did exactly 0 lectures throughout the entire semester. If I write an essay that applies to two or more assignments, I should be able to use it for both. Online college is a sham, and I hate every minute of it. Just four years and then you can get a good job, my parents say. Four years. YEARS. Just because they spent most of college partying, they think everyone has a great time in school. Online college affords no such social opportunities. I have had just about all I can handle, and I take solace in knowing that my experience is one shared by many.

[@weirdflex8158]

Lol that's good majority of people who party In college are insanely stupid so you saved youraelr from that crowd

[@Swenthorian]

If it makes you feel any better: I did STEM in-person a couple years before the pandemic and had the same problem. In game development class, there was literally 80 hours of homework a week; and I took data structures the same semester... all while working part-time. Some degrees are just fucking rough. I can confirm, though, that things are a lot better now that I'm out, and the sacrifices made in college allowed for things to get better. But we could have all just done a trade, and gotten careers shaping metal or crafting cabinetry. Actually using our bodies, as well as our minds. My job is sitting on a couch all day, every day. Well-compensated, comfortable; but not enough.

[@jujureference8535]

Laughs in med school

[@Swenthorian]

@@jujureference8535 My sister's in med school and it is indeed way worse than tech.

[@JohnDoe-ns5su]

This.

[@ikops22]

I actually graduated through zoom, my entire graduation ceremony was a five minute skype call with my teacher and then it was over. I had a full suit on and a glass of wine sitting in front of my computer. The silence when the call ended was just absolutely deafening, I have never felt as incomplete as I did sitting there realizing three years of stress and hard work amounted only to that. Online school messed with pretty much everyone I know man it’s so soul draining.

[@Kay-io5gx]

I am so sorry. I do not know how to console you, but I sure hope the rest of your life is everything you're hoping for. Online school fucking destroyed me as well. I just moved across the country 6 months ago and still literally don't know anyone. Going to have to spend the summer in my own company, but hey maybe it won't be all that bad. Hoping that all this shit will make us stronger somehow. Good luck out there fellow human

[@ikops22]

@@Kay-io5gx Whole world is a bit of a shit show right now, hang in there! Having to spend some time with yourself might prove useful and good for self growth, I wish you all the best and I’m convinced you can do it!

[@elizrebezilmadommdo1662]

Man, that's really sad. They didn't even try to make an effort. I understand why they don't do graduation ceremonies at a lot of schools, but damn. I didn't even bother going to whatever zoom graduation meeting my community college had back in 2020. I just got my diploma delivered through the mail, and my parents made me try on my old gown from my high school graduation for pictures. Lmao Even receiving my acceptance letter for the university I'm now going to felt underwhelming. It's like my excitement for school has been sucked out of me. I don't know if you can relate. I mean, I'm still kind of happy that I got accepted, but it doesn't feel as exciting as I imagined it would've felt before.

[@drek273]

lol who cares. u waited 3 years for an applause?

[@elizrebezilmadommdo1662]

@@drek273 When did you graduate high school?

[@megus_vae]

>"because of social isolation, many students switched to meeting new people online" well fuck me i guess, cause i'm too shy to even talk to other people in games

[@Alberto-ny7kf]

i feel u bro

[@henryfleischer404]

Yeah, I have no idea how I'm supposed to meet other people online. Every social media platform I've tried to use has been a confusing mess.

[@Jocko_Homo]

Same, I have a hard time making friends irl but online it seems pretty much imposible to keep consistent frienships.

[@yagottapaythetrolltoll3127]

@@Jocko_Homo yeah, it's kind of impossible to make friends online. My old friend group spilt up right before quarantine started, so I've gone through this entire year with basically only one friend whom I've kept in contact with. I'm really grateful for him, because without any friends, I feel like this would've been much harder.

[@KiingKai91]

Been an online gamer since 2006 and yeah thats how i am now too

[@CheerUp2]

As someone who grew up with a learning disability and needing extra time and extra teachers in the classroom, etc I cant imagine having to do school online. I wouldnt get the same assistance I got in school, I would probably fail. My heart goes out to students also not just the learning aspect but life experiences some of the memories I have from senior year of both high school and college and summer breaks and stuff are some of my most fondest memories I will hold onto forever, and for people now to not get to experience that......is so very sad. Being raised youre whole live to look forward to these things, only to have the rug pulled out from under you

[@Acerracer202]

29:21 My MAN it was a slap to hear someone mention G-mod. I agree, it feels like we'd be just as well off if we learned our course materials through youtube. Hell, Professor Leonard on youtube was a better professor to me than my calc 1, 2, and 3 professors were, but the in-person aspect is irreplaceable and important.

[@_callum__wallum_3642]

@@Aninefivesiix fr?

[@Jamie-sg5in]

Sophomore year was genuinely one of the worst years of my life. Decided to stay online while most of my friends were in person, s/o and I saw each other way less, and of course before my final day of exams (my final day of school) my dad tested positive and my 10 year old sister hasn’t looked this bad ever. This isn’t even the worst of anyone’s situation, and so I’m just wishing the best for anyone who’s school year was made difficult this year

[@grylltheonion]

If you think that is horrible just wait when you grow up.

[@crash_olyv3r979]

Same but with 7th grade

[@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274]

System change

[@Jamie-sg5in]

@@grylltheonion yea, Junior year boutta be something :,)

[@PokeBlox21]

same here. my sophomore year was awful because of online learning

[@GlinkBetweenWorlds]

alright guys i havent slept in like 30 hours, good night

[@DraconiaDrawing]

Night

[@piggychan8869]

Gamer moment 😎

[@MrMarsAlien]

Rest well you absolute legend

[@Frogman1212]

@@piggychan8869 very pog, huge hog

[@WarningStrangerDanger]

Well done.

[@TheAstip]

This just shows how everyone learns differently. Online classes didnt work for me since i need a way to seperate free time and work time. I struggled with high school but college (in person) worked well for me. I feel like options for education could help everyone, but i understand that probably won't happen due to the extra work that would need to be put in

[@w_ldan]

Also school: Hey Lets Keep Doing It. Also, what is else that suck? Doing PE on zoom class

[@joemama-ej7kw]

School feels like it ended in March 2020; now we’re just living in some kind of nightmare. I’ve seen a different side of my teachers this year. They’ve become angry at us and the system and students have stopped caring altogether Edit: everyone is very happy to be back in school full time and the general attitude is that everyone is thankful we’re not online, major improvement from last year

[@zephyrous8155]

Mhm.

[@joshuagabrielcatindig7607]

Not just school, life in general.

[@OneNamelessHero]

Indeed..

[@jooot_6850]

At least I can say that my teachers and fellow classmates were nice about it. Sure, half the students didn't care about the work, but even then people would still crack jokes in the chat and all that. So that's at least _something_

[@joshuagabrielcatindig7607]

@@jooot_6850 puts hands together like the stickman.

[@darreideamos2309]

My school has been going online for an entire year until it finally openned 2 weeks ago. I have learned next to nothing, my grades dropped, I pretty much forgot everything from my french class and so on. The motivation and desire to learn just wasn't there during remote learning. It felt so surreal, useless and unfulfilling. Any psychological problems I had became much worse then before and I almost failed school completely because I couldn't force myself to even do the assignments. I was constantly tired, drained, addicted to video games... Before online school I was fine I was a normal student. It's like the whole year wasn't real, time flew by and I was stuck in an endless loop. I was also more anxious, having pannic attacks while going grocery shopping because seeing people didnt feel real. I haven't had this shit happening before. It felt like everything lacked reason. Its over now, things are better now but its like a whole year of my life got taken away from me. Online learning is terrible and in no way a substitute to normal school

[@australium7374]

My friend has to go to summer school because he failed online class. Thing is I saw the whole thing and his teachers were pretty biased against him, sad how it happened

[@DrownThySelf]

Holy Shit mate, same. Physical was great for me. Grade 11 (Gen. Average was 90-some. For comparison). But this 12th grade. I nearly didn't graduate because of INCs and ended up a lot of 70s. I'm lazy that's a fact, but this just amplified it by 20.

[@dennisfarmer1322]

As a 2nd year college student, I totally relate to literally everything that you're saying. Hopefully things will get better as we shift back to in person

[@Phiigost]

So I'm not the only one huh? Thought the problem was me

[@elicubed]

yeah fall-winter 2019 i was really improving mentally and finally started feeling like i was getting a footing on life and was excited for the future. then covid hit and im just slowly going more downhill, went from straight As to Fs. feeling really hopeless most of my days now but maybe soon we can make the steps to get back to where we were. RIP high school senior year

[@SomeAustrianGuy_]

I myself actually quit my school because of the horrendous methods the teachers used. Especially giving us 20 essays due tomorrow, and after that they didn't even count them towards our grade, the grade was basicall compiled of those stupid ass tests we did (with topics we never even had) and exams (with topics we never even had) that made up 50% of our final grade. I was pretty down and nearly actually had a panic attack because it was do damn much. All in all, a big f you to my ex Italian teacher, she was by far the worst, I'm actually glad I left that school, I feel way better now,

[@fromulus]

Damn, if you think life is hard to deal with now...got some bad news for you.

[@ChadVulpes]

@@fromulus Psh. I was in the military, and found that life a lot easier than most of the life I had. I would even stay if not for all the bullshit they make you go through in my country.

[@emmettcant]

I think the variance in performance really comes from the huge differences in how students optimally operate. I'm antisocial and introverted, and the experience of being at school was more stressful than the work itself. So, in a situation where I could control if people saw me and interacted with me, I was much more comfortable. Still, I easily zoned out and procrastinated my work, but the pandemic gave me a chance to actually work on myself. I went to therapy (well, more like called into therapy), got medicated for my anxiety, and had a lot more time to do things I enjoyed. I broke off toxic friendships and got closer to new friends, all virtually. So, when I came back to in-person school, I was socially and mentally much more capable. But of course, that's just one experience. Perhaps the majority of students don't perform as well virtually, but there will always be some that Zoom helped.

[@Raj-sp5nz]

That’s really good bro

[@horsem.d.7979]

As someone with ADHD, I thought online school would help, but it made my grades plummet completely. I never thought I’d miss going to class in person.

[@deaddog7611]

Same here. It was awful I had to move down from advanced to normal math

[@spirix2067]

Anybody else imagining how their lives would have turned out if it weren't for remote learning?

[@kenshix7902]

I got sick at the start of the pandemic, so I'm glad remote learning happened 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Treyson007]

Seeing these comments makes me sad. I graduated college a year before this covid shit. You guys future was burned down and stolen by garbage school boards who never liked yall. If this online trash happened to me I definitely be a drop out. Wouldn't care either.

[@kenshix7902]

@@Treyson007 Plus the woman in charge of subjects and stuff for my college screwed up my timetable by removing one of my classes by replacing it with Motion Design or some s***. I had no laptop or computer during the 1st 3 months of Lockdown, so I failed the class. From there I lost all motivation and stopped attending altogether. But it was still a blessing since I got sick anyway lol. Wouldn't want my friends asking me annoying questions.

[@kzartix_______________________]

g i wouldve been accepted into the high school thatd benefit me 😭😭😭

[@sketchfacex8180]

Yep

[@oa9121]

When you're forced to turn your place to relax from the stress into a study room with your teachers spitting out information about stuff you feel you don't need for your future, that very place turns into the hell you wanted to run away from.

[@weirdflex8158]

just learn to seperate the two its not that hard

[@sga522]

@@weirdflex8158 bro stfu ur 8 or what were talking about grades from 6 to 12 and its absoulote hell for me im in grade 6 anf its so painfull i was an A student now im a C And B

[@SuussyBakka]

School has always been about passing, than learning… the pandemic made it even more obvious. I felt like I barely learned anything from school. It was just about memorizing things. I learned more from KZbin than I did from 14 years of schooling (including preschool and kindergarten).

[@justanotheruser2611]

School prioritizes perfection (at least the illusion of such) over progress

[@Juushii]

online school isn't learning, it's just a test of self discipline

[@bandav_lohengrin]

Man you hit the nail on the head

[@karhammer]

Regular school isn't learning either though lmao

[@Sh1ranu1]

“Don’t let school get in the way of ur education”

[@xslashsdas]

we might as well just rip off the "online" part this is so unfortunately accurate

[@jeremyjean-pierre4977]

I agree, I had no self discipline so I barely passed most of my classes when I had a 80 on average before online school.

[@NightDocs]

Man this whole thing is bringing to the front of my mind something that I’ve been kind of repressing - that we are all becoming socially starved. There are so few opportunities for organic traditional social interaction. We all exist to each other from a distance. If we disappear, it’s irrelevant because we don’t really exist to each other to begin with in a way. I miss feeling like a living human being.

[@cameronsheppard7574]

This is so true. I’m not the type of person to shed tears for anything but I literally cried after hugging my friend for the first time in months

[@andie.3632]

I... don't think this is quite true. Let me try to expose my viewpoint, and apologize in advance if i misunderstood your words. Friendships (or any social bond) at a distance are, obviously, not quite the same as the "organic traditional social interaction" you are describing. Sure, you don't care if some dude on the internet just disappears from the fase of the earth, but that extends to people you actually meet in real life for barely any time. Would you deeply feel the loss of that one retail worker in some grocery store you went to once in your life and never came back? Probably not, and that has happened since there was enough people in the world for you to not know every single soul in your little village. It's not a new phenomenon. We have always existed to eachother from a distance, but now it's just easier to do so, specially with a pandemic that restricts our opportunities to meet people in person: which seems to be the only way some people are able to conceptualize real, caring relationships. But, i don't think that "lack of traditional social interactions" and "distanced relationships" are one and the same. You can have a relationship with someone via letters or emails or texts, and still feel the loss of that person you've never really met face-to-face more than someone you have met in person (ie, that retail worker from my example). Sure, if you have met them in person the loss may be way more deep and meaningful, because existing in the same space as someone has way more opportunities of making a bigger impact in their life- but that still doesnt make the letters you received and wrote back any less valuable as a social interaction, or any less meaningful. Perhaps i feel inclined to say this because i have lost a friend dear to me and felt that loss very deeply, even if i have only met them via a funky little app on the internet and we didn't even know eachother's actual name. Tldr; i think that how deep and impactful social interactions can be has nothing to do with how "organic" or "traditional" they are, and everything to do with the people involved and their actual bond. Sorry for the rant!

[@jaysonmaxfield729]

divide and conquer just more efficient with AI and everyone being hooked to the same master nodes.

[@oatmeal789]

Honestly, you couldn’t have said that better. I feel like all this technology is making us too comfortable in our own little bubble that pure human connection are becoming rare. Don’t get me wrong I’m not hating on technology, but I think we are too reliant on technology. This is just depressing. Over use of technology is the reason why this current generation (my generation gen z) has the highest mental illness rates.

[@tazmania7785]

That's been the Shadow Governments' plan since 1913

[@78anurag]

At this point I feel like a car which has gathered rust over its 20 years of use and it takes some trouble to start and depressed all the time. Basically the life of an average adult just a few years earlier

[@aschlegel]

With the amount of effort that went into this video, this definitely needs more views. Also, great message!

[@Anonymongoose]

I graduate high school in 17 days and I can say this year has been hell. Teachers must think we all have 48 hours in each day as they basically doubled up in the work given and the stress. And to add insult to injury I transferred to a new school this year so I don’t have anyone to socialize with in class which means I spend most of my time at home playing online games instead of doing my hw just to stop myself from going insane and talking to the voices

[@-cactus.raven-]

Started high school with this crap. Can’t wait for another three years, hopefully this bs either ends or improves in some shape or form Edit: changed four to three because I can’t to basic math at four am.

[@ultimatekunochi6577]

I understand the part about not having anyone to talk to because you transferred

[@Anonymongoose]

@@ultimatekunochi6577 on one hand it sucks and is driving me insane, on the other hand my grades have literally never been this good I’m doing amazingly this year class wise.

[@Anonymongoose]

@@-cactus.raven- well hopefully it gets better after people get vaccinated and more classes can be in person instead of over zoom

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

@@ultimatekunochi6577 damn, that must have been hell...

[@yagottapaythetrolltoll3127]

In early May, our school adopted a hybrid education, where people could go to school in person, or choose to stay at home. I chose to stay at home because it was simply easier for me to study for my APs and finals due to the extra time in the day that online school provides. Most of my teachers would have a separate camera that pointed towards their in-person class, allowing online kids to see what the in-person kids are doing. It felt so profoundly odd, seeing my peers interacting with each other in-person, while I sat at home in my room, silent, and without a smile on my face. I forgot how people used to just talk to each other. How every small interaction with each other brought such a sense of community and belonging. Meanwhile, I was sitting in my room. My desk is about 3 feet away from my bed, and all I have to do to go to school is wake up at the exact time school starts, and walk 3 feet over to my desk. Online school is just so... empty. Sure, it was easier for me, because it gave me more time in the day, but it just sucks the soul out of school. Before, a lot of my motivation to come to school came from wanting to see everyone, and be a part of the busy and exciting crowd. I remember waking up some days, genuinely excited to see all my friends and some of my cool teachers in-person. Towards the end of online school, I had no motivation to wake up for school at all. In fact, sometimes I would log onto my classes from my phone with my camera off, so that I could remain in bed. I would make up some BS about "wifi problems" (although that actually did happen quite frequently and it just added to the annoyance of online school), and sleep for the entire period. It's strange because it took me until January 2021 to finally come into terms with online school. I found a schedule that allowed me to focus on the things outside of school that I loved. It became oddly comfortable, and I was fine with ending the year the way it started. But when we went into hybrid education, and everyone else started going back, it kind of hurt, seeing how life used to be compared to how it is now. I even had a dream, where I was locked in some kind of closet, completely alone in the darkness. But between the cracks, I could see all my peers socializing without me, and it made me feel so sad. I woke up that day, and didn't even bother going to online school.

[@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274]

Lots of different perspectives huh

[@user-el6lt8fr3x]

I agree man for the most part online school was incredibly easy for me but I found absolutely no motivation/desire to do anything or learn

[@sammong5670]

I found the free time nice when I helped my family flip a house but it hurt a lot coming form hibrid learning to being hundreds of miles away from my friends back at school. What really hurt then most to see was just how separated you are from your friends at school. At the beginning of the pandemic I gave up toldly on school to walking around my town on the empty street which was vary strange and sad. Never in all the many places have I lived have I seen so many places close, makes me think a lot of people have been truly affected with the pandemic.

[@a.h.i267]

@@user-el6lt8fr3x same. like I don’t even think I actually studied or listened in my spanish or geometry classes this year, i kinda just took a few notes and winged every test and it definitely reflected in my grades.

[@souka9598]

Yeah the only reason I liked school is because of the other people there. In online school you have to do all the work by yourself

[@BobbyJCFHvLichtenstein]

Me before Zoom: happy to be in class! happy to participate! Me after Zoom: do the bare minimum cause there's no point in participating

[@hatchmaster_5745]

Online "learning" really shed a light on how pitiful the curriculum being taught in public schools now is. I got every single assignment for the etire 40 hour school week done in two and a half hours every sunday.

[@thatonenigeriansformula]

Honestly online school was one of the worst concepts created and was just a half assed attempt to keep the industry going , i learned nothing and i used to be a straight A+ student and now i am in extended school to make up for classes i failed, you dont just become dumb in a matter of months, i have become more and more depressed and the only thing that makes me happy is my mom , my puppy , making shitty videos for my channel , playing games, and formula 1 with the bois which due to divorce visitation only happens for 2.5 days every 2 - 3 weeks , it ruined my realtionship with my dad because him being a old african man means he doesn't understand the struggles of modern schooling , can you believe he thinks i have it easy doing online school, i never liked the kids in my school because most seemed like self absorbed assholes but damn i want to go back

[@riotants4018]

Exactly same for me in terms of online school performance and depression from it. I barely scrapped by and it was so stressful I thought about ending it a few times.

[@kylehaverkorn6122]

Ouch man I was the a/b student until this year where you could routinely catch me with Ds and Fs. But I didn't have to do make up classes.

[@lordsiomai]

man this is one of the I hate the most about online classes. i don't hate adults, but they never seem to see the faults and troubles of online learning because they think "we have it easy". Really makes it hard to tell them your problems and frustrations, and sometimes, they even straight up tell you to "suck it up and remember that 'you are luckier than most kids out there'". Yes I am lucky, I know that. But just because I am able to eat three times a day doesn't mean our entire generation's problems should be easily brushed off as "invalid" or brought on by our being "entitled" or whatever.

[@irish_mcrae1892]

Dude I feel you so much in almost everything, it's just so depressing to bust your ass in a system that is working even less than the previous, and to drift away from everyone, and finding happiness in F1, pets, etc Also my parents think this is easier, but learning like this is like learning to play guitar with videos and without actually touching a guitar

[@chaleb6817]

i just said fuck it half way through the year, i already knew all the shit and it wasant worth the sress or work, if i fail ill honestly dropout and just teach myself how to do something that i actually like

[@seanbrownlee9474]

When covid ends and we all go back to school for real, all English teachers will make us write a essay on how covid affected us and everyone will hate it.

[@mip5944]

In covid,i existed,the end

[@jorionedwards]

The psych teachers already gave this assignment.

[@40watt53]

"When covid ends" HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH, humanity is fucking DOOMED!

[@40watt53]

@@jorionedwards psych teachers?

[@jorionedwards]

@@40watt53 Psychology. It's a glorified judgement and personal response (JPR) class in my old trade school.

[@lallaren1649]

I’m a bit late but online learning was ironically what kept me sane when most people went insane. I never have had issues with learning or keeping up in class. It’s the one hour bus in, one hour back home that was the biggest problem for me. Having to get up at 6 am and only getting home at 5 pm or 7pm on some days that bled time of my day, time I felt I could use better. Most tasks were already done on a pc and turned in online anyway in school or at home after school. The ability for me to skip 2 hours or even all lessons that day, focus on just completing the tasks themselves and get on with what I wanted freed up so much time for me. Love the video and Glink, if you ever see this. I’d always be willing to be interviewed by you for whatever future projects you do. Keep the videos coming.

[@edwardbrown3721]

I can't imagine how most people have handled this shitshow, I had regular contact with my friends, went out as much as I could, and still fell into the suicidal spiral, luckily I'm out of that shit now.

[@beanbean9364]

Even before zoom, the education system has already failed an entire generation

[@HilbertXVI]

Not the point

[@aaryankhairnar69]

It did fail But zoom classes are worse

[@comidamexicanasinsabor_]

Ur definitely not wrong, especially how things are politically exploited in the education system

[@jordanfleming7022]

The Prussian education system has failed generation after generation; on a worldwide scale.

[@fauzihidayat7225]

Agreed.

[@TNinja0]

It irks me that some education heads are trying to invade kids' free time as much as possible, and online classes helps with that. Now I'm hearing they're taking away snow days. A day I'm not familiar with, but apparently important relax times for kids in the countries that got them. People need their free hours. There's a reason Finland got their stuff working.

[@thesleepiestpanda]

Took away my snow day Didn’t even get to play in the snow they kept talking about :/

[@dannylamb456]

@SNES Nes Hey, cool it with the antisemitism

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

@@dannylamb456 Where in the comment was he being antisemetic?

[@dannylamb456]

@@justafurrywithinternet317 Well, if you have to ask

[@justafurrywithinternet317]

@@dannylamb456 He did not even mention judaism.

[@HeatherHolt]

School is just as much for learning social skills versus actual academia. Especially public schools. Maybe even more so.

[@chrism8180]

WOW 😳...where did you go to public school? As far as my experiences go kids are animals and the teachers barely give 2 fucks.

[@chrism8180]

It's not the schools job to bridge the gap for shitty parents

[@LilXancheX]

@@chrism8180 I went to Nathan hale magnet school

[@chrism8180]

@@LilXancheX well the question was redundant, but I thank you for answering

[@padregrande523]

@@LilXancheX Ok man

[@jesusdiscipledon1499]

Woah! That clefairy game graphic gave me flashback!!!! Not a bad one. A good one! Thank you!

[@someguywithacat6711]

At the beginning of online, I was doing great and was paying attention. Then after a few months I start losing motivation to work hard, I feel like it won’t ever mater to me. I’ve since been not paying attention, barley getting out of failing grades, and always turning in late work. At this point I’m kind of lucky I haven’t failed this year at all, hell I haven’t even failed a single class. Online learning can be great, if done right. But if done wrong, it can destroy a persons motivation to work hard and make ‘learning’ something almost impossible.

[@Calypso504]

(In Brazillian) When the pandemic started, i got weeks without school, then pre recorded videos and finally online classes. 2021 arrived, and my classes was jumping from: - a totally online (students and teachers online) - a hybrid (students online and the teachers in a empty classroom) - a "real" hybrid (students and teachers in the class and some students online) The hybrid and "real" hybrid classes are hell

[@Cl0_oudy]

@@Calypso504 yes! The teachers in my school pay literally no attention to the online students so if you get a bit behind, your screwed. They move around, and get so far away from their terrible quality mic that all you can hear is disjointed staticky chatter, and the in-person students chattering makes an awful staticky garble of nonsense that makes it very hard to concentrate. Half of the teachers don’t know anything about online, to the point where they will just completely forget to join the zoom, or start the google meet. Subs are the absolute worst, usually they’re muted, don’t turn the mic on, or join a half hour late. Also, screw seeing anything, cause most of them don’t bother to check if their cameras are actually pointing at the thing you need to be seeing, or if they’re just pointing at a wall. They assign a ton of work, and barley give us any info on it, and say to “not be afraid to ask questions”. Then they proceed to not answer literally any of your questions. If there are a lot of people in the call, you will randomly be marked unexcused absent. I was almost marked truent because of how much it happened. If you don’t immediately switch from whatever thing you’re working on and turn on your microphone and camera, or you don’t answer a usually quite hard question in 0.5 seconds, or you take 5 SECONDS to type an answer into chat because your microphone doesent work properly, you will be marked non responsive, which is also counted towards being marked truent. Fun. If you are slightly tardy because your previous teacher never excused the class (which happens a lot because usually we aren’t checking the time every 5 minutes) then according to them, you never showed up yo class, period. I have a nerve disorder which makes stress and anxiety signals be falsely transmitted to my brain as pain signals, so you can imagine that it feels like I’m constantly being stabbed. School only affects kids positively though, right!!!!! Oh, and one of the other affects of this disorder is chronic fatigue. My parents thought I had mono, because I was sleeping 18 hours a day. I wish I had mono, because that gets better after a few months. I fall asleep in class constantly, and being online reeeeeeallly doesn’t help that. Oh, and did i mention I literally can’t do school in person cause yay fun, apparently this thing also weakens the immune system, and amplifies the affect of illnesses, as it thinks that they are also pain signals so it would be even more excruciating of pain! !! !!,!! Yay my life is so great. I’m so sick of being told that these are “the best years of my life”. They aren’t. The best years of my life was when I was 10, and I hadn’t developed my nerve disorder, and I had friends. When I could be myself around people. When I could literally talk without feeling like I was being judged. When I didn’t have severe anxiety and depression, and the teachers actually cared about my well being. My life was ruined by moving schools, the pandemic, and my own mental health, it sucks, I feel like my “fun teenage years” have been robbed from me. I just wish things were simple again. Sorry if this was a lot, I just really needed to rant and get some things off my chest.

[@unabomberwasright]

Happened to me last year and is happening again as my country goes back to online school. The first weeks were extremely easy and I was very organized and then I just got overwhelmed and dropped everything for months. Literally impossible to concentrate and I was so stressed that I felt ill for half a year.

[@Theleaver5088]

Same, online class is just not that great for me, and im failing school even more

[@toothpastefilet]

Been in the the same situation and I totally agree

[@milktea3825]

And don't forget the "switch on your cameras" like every 10 seconds. They think we switch off our cameras because we're doing something else but we're just insecure lol.

[@Karina4News]

I’m not in school anymore but I imagine for you guys turning on cameras is like literally letting people into your room and have a look at your life. That thought is terrifying.

[@voli6570]

@@Karina4News You overexaggerate the purpose of a webcam. Literally move in front of a wall and you have nothing to be afraid of.

[@Karina4News]

@@voli6570 my point was that sometimes looking at someone’s room is a glimpse into their life. Chill.

[@Axl4325]

@@Karina4News I´m a teacher myself (english teacher) and I have NEVER turned on the camera hell no, that just feels so uncomfortable. This comment is super spot on

[@jooot_6850]

@@Axl4325 i tip my hat to you sir

[@volumosity2167]

This single video shook me to my core, broke me, in a good way, props to you, you are extremely talented and you are a gifted speaker!

[@theniftylynx6897]

Personally i hated online because teachers used it as an excuse to cut down work time because "we have so much more time to work on it at home" as if we had nothing else to do

[@mynamethog1151]

The social aspect in school is arguably more important to kids than actually learning material, the amazing and horrendous experiences, the friendships you develop and the memories you create are so, so important to your development and quality of life. Just imagine in 5 years time being with your friends at a party and reminiscing “mate, remember when x and y at school, that was the funniest shit”, that’s completely impossible with online school, it’s sad.

[@i_likemen5614]

I've barely ever had a social life at school to begin with lol.

[@blankmoment2]

well clearly what you said is just wrong, for example if we return to normal life and online learning is still a thing, we would had a different kind of school, a place where you would only do physical stuff, because all of the hassle that like show up on time, is just an annoyance for traditional school, like what if it's take a kid 1-2 hour to get to the school and he or she would had to wake up sooner than their friend 1-2 hour just to go to school thus their sleep time reduced, while if the kid can attend online class they only need to wake up on time turn on their phone or pc and done. Then another aspect of online learning is even better, if the student dont had time to attend the class, they only need to record the lesson, and if they dont understand that, they could ask the teacher later, and they only need to make sure that their grade would be fine at the test, so saving both time for the teacher and student since they dont need be happen at the same time. And since you dont need class any more the school would be transformed into a more sport oriented school, that support more sport and during that time the kid can just show up and only need to work their body out with all their youth energy and then they came home, having already socialized, and energy spent so the result is a more fit and well socialized kid. So yeah I feel like you are only clinging on the idea of "traditional school" is because you having thinking through how to work with technology.

[@chaleb6817]

now imagine online school but your entire life, and now you know what home schooling is!

[@mynamethog1151]

@@blankmoment2 haha 'clearly what you said was just wrong' the fact that hundreds of people agree with me is clearly indicative of the opposite but i take it english is your second language so whatever. In this fictitious situation, i would think that this child should move to a damn closer school ! and if their nearest school is still 2 hours away well I somewhat doubt they would have the internet capabilities necessary to attend online school lol. i dont even know why you're disagreeing with me you obviously agree with me that normal school is still important? i think it's fair to say for the vast majority of students that online school is worse in every aspect, from engagement to the content to the value for money their parents pay for to, and most crucially, the fun social side of school

[@dqftones]

i hate the social part of school so online learning worked me for but i can understand this for most social students

[@inkonsistency]

I used to think that sitting in class, checking the clock every 5 seconds was painful. But, honestly, sitting at home stuck in a zoom meeting and still checking the clock every 5 seconds is so much worse. At least at school, when the time was up, I could expect to go in another environment. Now, when class is over, I just close zoom and I stay in my room.

[@sipeb587]

I used to have a lot of friends when I was in school, like also, a lot of teachers where very nice to me, but unfortunately, all of it is now lost to time, I used to love my school days, yeah sure there a few times where bad stuff would happen, but now, I feel all of my life has been drained and replaced with an empty void, I can only hope that I manage to go trough this year of school and have a, maybe not good, but just a decent grade, this whole google classroom shit really pisses me off, is not effective, is confusing, is empty and basically, trash.

[@thesevenkingswelove9554]

Honestly I don't like school but I don't like being alone either. The only good part was I had fun with my friends in school now I can't even do that

[@adyn8811]

... I'm sorry, sitting at what?

[@sipeb587]

@@adyn8811 in a chair bruh

[@chyle.mp4]

thankyou for this insight!!!!

[@EE-us9we]

Online learning for me was just cheating and then playing video games, I just lied saying I can't get a web cam cause I'm poor

[@paultheboba]

I'm going to be honest, I cheated. I knew I would learn nothing so I gave up and cheated because it was simply useless. I feel like the school system failed me, and I get As and Bs. There is also no motivation at all and it shows how flawed our system really is.

[@Razor-gx2dq]

I do not condone those actions but I understand.

[@paultheboba]

@@Razor-gx2dq I know I shouldn't have and I feel guilty, but the education system failed me so why should I try?

[@bloatatoeminis5976]

Lol just cheat, what people see are just grades anyway. You get a F without cheating, will people compliment you and congratulate you? No you will be fucked over by teachers and parent. But if you get an A by cheating and dint get noticed, people will congratulate and shake your hands. Universities just look at your grades anyway. If you can cheat just cheat, if its something you can't get away with then don't.

[@miaalmeida4787]

i thought everyone by now was cheating lol

[@WastePlace]

@@bloatatoeminis5976 facts. There’s no special achievement or reward for not cheating and getting through school on your own merit so why put in the extra effort, work smarter not harder. I almost feel like that’s on purpose to teach kids how the world really works past highschool

[@thiccfork8664]

When my school switched to online, I tried to do everything legit for a few weeks. That means not doing anything else during class and not doing anything non educational during school. That didn't last long. The zoom meetings just felt like an video that you couldn't skip through. You couldn't go back 15 seconds if you didn't understand something or skip ahead 15 seconds if you already understand the current topic. It all felt like a giant waste of time. I found myself learning more effectively using my own time and using resources I find on the internet. As the days went on, I started to stop paying attention during class. Instead I would just chat and play games with friends to make up for the lost in person socialization because of the lockdown. I would just search up answers in order to understand every single lesson and to complete homework. People would often cheat on tests because they just couldn't be bothered to learn the lessons, me included. It's been hard on the teachers as well. As the year went by, everyone could see the lockdown taking its toll on the teachers. Adding on the stress of trying to teach us students through the online platform and seeing such diminishing results, their mental health also aren't doing too good.

[@riran6636]

this sounds exactly like what i did

[@riker8146]

I feel the same. Its just hard when with 2 clicks you can just go on youtube for hours. And when doing a test you can look up all your answers. I felt motivted to get through school because I wanted good grades and I wanted the weekend to come faster. With online school all it takes to get good grades is google, and instead of being forced to go through class I can just take a 5 hour break.

[@BubbleLolli]

This is exactly my experience 💀

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

Bloody heck this is just fcking true to the core. Teachers can't really teach well in Online class. might as well just search stuff in youtube ... tbh I also skipped most of them too.. cuz in the end I realized I'd just be searching in the internet for that topic anyway...

[@janelle9998]

Same

[@williemedicog2163]

I played games all day last year and still passed lmfao

[@sarahlikestacos1010]

As someone who was schooled online from k-12 graduating about ten years ago it's a very interesting experience watching the entire country go through for one year what I did my entire childhood.

[@Nepty]

it genuinely feels like i lost a whole year of my education to the pandemic. despite still learning during the pandemic i have retained NOTHING and now im an incoming senior feeling like a sophomore since my entire junior year was a blur.

[@kaidx3]

Exact same situation

[@shelly5016]

YESss. I moved during the pandemic nearing the end of my sophomore year and adjusting to everything was terribly difficult. Different school, different schedule, can't see your friend anymore nor make new ones in person, mountains of schoolwork that was due the next day, I was just so out of it. It's June now and I am going to need to make up 2 or 3 classes that I failed this year, which is so not me. The lowest grades I got were C's and even then I'd get them up and make honor roll 9.5/10 of the time. A whole year of my life just sped by and I was alone for most of it. Don't even get me started with the higher standards that honors put on top of me. I am just glad that school will be done this Friday. But I got finals tomorrow 🙃.

[@shelly5016]

I'm definitely going to join some sort of club next year.

[@aMondayMorning]

Don't worry, that feeling would have persisted regardless of where you took classes.

[@Iisho]

I've always had a hard time retaining information. Like, the only way for me to do well on a test is to cram right before because say I were to pace it out through a whole week, I wouldn't remember what I studied the first 4 days by the time I had to take the test. Also, I have zero motivation and very little interest in anything. I couldn't focus on school, especially when I was on my own laptop and addicted to Genshin Impact (game) lolol. Luckily I didn't do much online schooling, my school did make us go in person with a mask mandate (you could only do online classes if you had covid or had a covid scare.) I feel like my life isn't going to go anywhere, and while I already pretty well knew that this pandemic has played a small part in it too. I don't remember ever having motivation for my future, but it only started bothering me when I was in high school. I graduated high school this year and am planning to go to college this August. Here's the problem: I'm not motivated, I don't know where I want my future to go, I don't think I have enough passion for my hobbies let alone doing them to live, I don't even want to go to college because it seems meaningless. A college degree gets you almost nothing nowadays, just lifelong debt. I'm honestly scared for my future. I don't think I even have a future.

[@gnuwaves743]

My defense for school use to be the social aspects you can’t learn at home. Seeing your peers everyday has its benefits. Then I realized 90% of bonding occurs during extracurricular activities outside the classroom. Like sports and club activities.

[@Hobby_Technology]

Totally thrown for a loop seeing so many clips from Oldboy.

[@cormacmcgeough2122]

your editing is amazing I love it

[@REO_Speedweed]

We live in the shittiest, least interesting, and most depressing cyberpunk dystopia of all time.

[@YBPaladin]

Nothing is neon or chrome either, shit sucks

[@echo2240]

@@YBPaladin if they’re gonna do this to us they should at least give us a good color palette

[@niggacockball7995]

@@YBPaladinwe *had* neon shop signs

[@gogarith]

Give it time; we all acknowledge these flaws and thus we will likely fix them. Why have a dystopia without it looking like our created dystopias?

[@ansrfururactions]

@@gogarith are you sure? Things feel like they're only getting worse.

[@stenslae]

I kinda got in a cycle of wake up, log onto zoom classes, mute that, log onto whatever video game I wanted to play, alternate between gaming and homework, and then log out of zoom classes. After "school" I would then do homework and go to sleep. I was either miserable and kinda scared of myself, or euphoric while immersing myself in games or TV shows. Those ~9 months felt unreal.

[@stoyanb.1668]

Ive been stuck in this mode for almost two years now. It sucks and i feel like throwing everything out of the windown and setting fire to it.

[@polkka7797]

The same with me, until maybe the last few months, for the first months I was excersising and shit but I just lost all motivation during the second lockdown in the uk

[@stoyanb.1668]

@@polkka7797 pretty much me. I started reading a lot like 10 to 12 hours a day, finished a bunch of book series, worst thing is i have online lectures which are about 2 hours long, for one of my courses however theyre 4 to 6 hours, needless to say ive checked out by the end of the first half hour.

[@crassiewassie8354]

I would substitute school with video essayists and people with extremely different views from mine on youtube or whatever and it's given me a much more artistic mind imo School made me feel like everything underneath me was crumbling and the years of school i did before highschool didn't build to anything I felt like i knew I'd be homeless and alone with mountains of debt cuz my parents would force me into college I ended up hating everyone from my school I wanted to get out so badly Id also substituted school with discord I never really had friends in real life ever I was really happy too So it made no sense to devote any more energy to a system that causes me only dread and hatred and dehumanization Idk im kinda passionate about this I know several people who deliberately sabotage their school year to seek the warmth and comfort of escape I'm one if em

[@CarlosFlores-pl3lb]

This still is my reality, sadly :/

[@Praxiszooms]

very nice documentation! :)

[@FountainMath]

I figured that since last year COVID was going to ruin education, so I went ahead of the curve and recorded EVERY LESSON that I intended to teach. If we were going to give students videos as the method to teach, it may as well have been mine.

[@RandomSauceLegend]

I mean do you really expect people to watch an old, boring teacher read word for word off their power points that I can find on their website anyways- but in the end its all on chegg and quizlet so why even read/listen to notes

[@SportsReplays]

Not every test or assignment/exam is on either of those sites. The things teachers are lazy and use the questions from previous semesters.

[@Vinesaucefan101]

@@SportsReplays you clearly haven’t looked hard enough, I’ve been cheating with quizlet since 9th grade and you a. Look up the name of the assigment b.enter a question in the exam into google and add “quizlet” after or c.find the unit standard (Lifepac is the most common;at least online)

[@beansfebreeze]

So that you actually process the information? It sounds like you just don't understand the value of an education.

[@Vinesaucefan101]

the point is we dont need education, to live life, I personally think anything above 9th-10th grade is just a waste of time, because tell me, when will you ever need to use sin cos tan log etc. when y=mx+b works miracles or sin cos and tan for trigonometry when you can just use a^2+b^2=c^2, or in English's case, can you understand all of this fairly clearly? then english doesnt matter above 9-10th grade either, because my writing skill hasn't changed one bit since 9th. also the fact 8 hours in basically prison doing nothing, with the unabillity to socialize with people because i don't like socializing irl, it makes me really uncomfortable

[@s7d788]

@@beansfebreeze I agree. And while you could in theory learn everything from the internet, let’s be honest, someone who couldn’t keep up with learning in school won’t usually have the drive and internal motivation to learn by themselves. Some kids just don’t have an interest in learning, and even if there’s something they’d actually want to learn they don’t know *how* to learn.

[@TubbyBellyScratcher]

I fucking hated everything about this, my grades went from high 90's to barely even passing

[@user-el6lt8fr3x]

I’m actually very surprised at how I passed math this year. My teacher went through lessons like the flash and nothing clicked. Beginning of term 4 I had like a C- or D+ cause the stuff she was teaching had me going ‘huh?’

[@drek273]

lol the opposite actually happened for me. online class is way easier than regular school and if you say otherwise you're crazy

[@tmonk.]

@@drek273 because you cheated you whining dumbass

[@drek273]

@@tmonk. i didnt cheat. you're just pessimistic and cant fathom anyone accomplishing something fair and square

[@tmonk.]

@@drek273 Then why should it be easier than regular school it’s the same but you have google to help you cheat

[@theythemma]

as a neurodivergent individual i found it a whole lot more comfortable to not need to mask as much in class. it made participation a lot easier for me since i didn’t need to focus on things such as eye contact which i struggle with a lot and it was also great to be able to make food in the time that would have been spent on transit to class!

[@coomfard5771]

You’re making really good content here, thank you very much.

[@Ozone946]

man I hate the fact that I graduated high school from my desk, I miss messing around with my friends at school and walking out of the classroom on the last day :'(

[@galactic3536]

saame it was so depressing

[@janomartin4483]

Back before the pandemic, i used to have friends, now because of this poor excuse of face-to-face school, and all that bubble bullshit i lost the only friends i had.

[@nerdemojireal]

my school ends in two days. i haven’t seen my school friends all year and i tried my hardest last year to get closer to them. but that was when my anxiety was at its peak and anxiety attacks were more common for me. it felt like so much of a risk to try to get closer (even though it’s definitely not) and i just wanted to give up. now im going to a different school next year so i won’t be able see them again on a daily basis. it fucking sucks. im gonna miss them so much. plus i already know a friend group at my new school and they’re full of red flags…

[@mirror2922]

Online school isn't for everyone, shit I'm an A student predominantly then covid happened. Some professors care and others don't. Honestly if I'm being real honest my work ethic/ engagement to care about what the professor is saying is based on how much they care about the content they teach. If you're gonna treat online education like fast-food, you're going to get fast food levels of effort out of me. Not because I'm bitter I just learned that knowing when to try is worth it the effort. Imagine working at 110% for every professor/course or curriculum you registered for even though the professors themselves don't do the same. Shit gets old fast.

[@mecha6030]

I do the same, I told this shit to my dad and he just said "we all have responsabilities" like yrah no shit my teacher just send my a fucking video and 30 questions and call it a day why should I even put effort into it

[@modernalchemist2690]

That isn't something specific to online courses.

[@looseycanon]

Same here. Until I met my university teacher of mathematics, I hated math with a passion. Without him, I would have never found a way to learn what I needed to apply in advanced classes. All thanks to a bunch of BS teachers, who didn't care for their own knowledge in the field. It doesn't matter, whether you learn from a teacher in class or at home. Hell, I've learned here on youtube more about computer networking than at school!

[@rafa428]

i hate it bc i need to keep up with more than 10 classes, i had no choice to be there but if i fail it basically means i fail in life, the worse of all is bc i have so much mental and physical health issues together with my sick mom and grandpa. when i used to go to school itself i could atleast learn a tiny bit and talk with my friends but now things are impossible to me, just thinking about school make me have panik attacks, this shit makes me feel stupid and worthless...

[@WolfGamingProductions]

Yeah.. Especially you've been doing that 110% for bloody year's, have this shite happen & then when you email asking for assistance (was a rarity in my entire time in college I'd normally bang myself against the metaphorical wall till it near drove me insane & asked for some minor assistance..) On something that was unclear or to enquire about how group projects are to work when one person drops out ghosting the tutors, students & college admin.. Or yea just emailing for assistance on something, having no response for two weeks at a time by which point you've thrown yourself against enough metaphorical walls again & again you figured it out shortly before the "immovable" deadline when assignments both theory & practical course work are all done give or take one & a half or two months before you finally graduate... Sure you can get out with top marks.. Tho that helps little when the availability of work has dwindled so much & the only people employers will even look for an "entry level job" with shite pay must have a minimum of 3 - 5+ years experience in the industry + commercial experience + "x", level of degree + whatever else they can throw on top while paying £18,000 - £20,000... It's near impossible to get your foot to the door never mind through the door..

[@nopenope7777]

Im SO glad you made this. Great work. Also thank you so much for including FLCL. I just watched that show and bought the blu ray literally the other day. You should do a review of that show