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Originally Posted by FanSince'01
I will say, as someone who's married to a high school teacher (and my job also revolves around education, just for more mature learners), that while I agree that McDavid not coming out to accept the Smythe is not a "generational thing", there most certainly are generational behavioural trends for Gen Z (which McDavid is) and Gen Alpha that are concerning that are becoming more and more frequent. Entitlement and the whole "I don't have to do this if I don't want to" attitude being one of them.
So yes, I wouldn't blame McDavid no-showing his own award on it being a generational thing and would point the blame at him, I wouldn't fully discount it playing a role either as behaviour like this does seem to be more common amongst people his age and younger compared to older generations.
As the apparent face of the league, though, no excuses for him.
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Agreed. I'm not in the same field, but have to work with teens sometimes, one area that really jumps out at me with that fevers is mass tardiness.
When they show up late, it's not even in an apologetic way either...it's more of a "what's your problem? I'm here" vibe. They don't even get what the issue is.
With WFH becoming much more common, I suspect this will get worse, as I can see it shifting more to "what you accomplished that day", and not what time you started at.
I kinda hate how I'm at the age of getting to "kids these days..." complaints, but here we are.