Students Are Horrible in Every Way

By Paul T. Corrigan. Students these days. Take it from me, I teach college. They barely read. Can’t write a coherent sentence. They have no attention span. Or respect for authority. Or for knowledge. All they do is eat, cheat, sleep, sleep around, sleep through class—texting and sexting the whole while. They are worse than all previous generations of students. Basically horrible in every way. At least that’s how some tell it. The sentiment appears ancient, but thanks to the Internet, these stories now circulate on a previously unimaginable scale. In the past decade, Rate Your Students and College Misery, websites dedicated to bad-mouthing students, published thousands of stories and received millions of views. More...