'One student recently pushed me to the limit of my stupidity tolerance': Professor declares this generation at an all-time low after recent conversation, and it’s hard to disagree

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    r/mildlyinfuriating Brian-Latimer I had a student hit a new low the other day. I am now fearful the next generation will be the death of me.
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    For context, I am a professor of communication located somewhere in the United States. Pray this did not happen at a college near you. Usually, I can take a lot of things in stride. When it
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    comes to students, I would like to think that I can handle practically anything. Teaching at an institution where many students are first-generation college attendees will always bring unique challenges. I realize that many do not have
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    much life experience to work with, nor have they traveled to different places. I must keep it in mind as I work with them daily. If I didn't do that, I would probably snap, One student recently pushed me to the limit of my stupidity tolerance. I knew I
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    was in for a long semester when she openly admitted during the first week of class that she was only in college. to earn her MRS. It was the first time I ever heard this spoken aloud. For the sake of this story, I will now call her Ms. Manhunter. She was
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    looking for a husband to marry who would take care of her. Our school has exceptional law and medical schools, so I think she was haunting those halls hoping to find Mr. Right-Now. However, I knew Ms. Manhunter would be a
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    handful for whomever she was with when she dropped a little nugget of knowledge that floored me. Her words still haunt me, and I am considering chiseling her quote on my grave marker so that it will never vanish into the ether of history. I tasked Ms. Manhunter's class with
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    formulating a persuasive speech. I let students work in groups because I figured they should pitch their ideas to the people who would hear what they presented. I walked around the room, giving points to consider as they concocted their ideas. When I arrived at the group with little Ms. Manhunter, a student
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    proposed that we should colonize the moon. This topic sounds like a great speech, but I must interject my sarcastic two cents. I mentioned that I believed we should blow the moon up, just like Alexander Abian proposed in the 1990s.
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    The student I was talking to understood that I was joking. However, Ms. Manhunter did not grasp that my reply was dripping with sarcasm. She promptly replied without hesitation that if we blew up the moon, there would no longer be night. The moment those words hit my
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    ear, everything stopped. The little hamster in my brain decided it was time to go on vacation because I couldn't formulate a sentence responding to her blithering lunacy. Thankfully, the first student recognized that I was having problems and tried her best to explain to Ms.
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    Manhunter how night and day worked. Even with the explanation, she still insisted that the moon brings nighttime like the sun brings daylight. I do not drink, but this was one moment in my life when I seriously considered taking up the habit.
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    Ferro_Giconi • 2d ago OwO I think we should blow up the moon to test who is correct. I know who is correct, but without due scientific process and tests, can we really be sure?
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    We are going to need to figure out how to build new moons so we can repeat the test to make sure it works the same way each time.
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    • Aranea15 2d ago I do hope someone pointed out to her that sometimes the moon is visible during daytime
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    MistaCy1 • 2d ago Plot twist. She understood your sarcasm and hit you back with some which went over everyone's head
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    C_DRX 2d ago Oh, wow. I'm not used to the American school system, but I guess you're about 18 when you start college? That's a tough one.
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    It reminds me of a 17- year-old student who asked the history teacher, in the middle of a lecture on World War II, if "Hitler was kind before he became mean, or if he was mean all along". She sounded like a six-year-old. The same girl once told our art teacher that "it was
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    impossible for Europeans to have brought obelisks from Egypt in the 19th century, since Egypt was so long ago".
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    Fluffy-Match9676 • 2d ago How did she get in? Then again, I had a friend who was brilliant, but would still say stuff like this.
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