Like previous generations, millennials contain all different kinds of people.
Passionate people. Lazy people. Stupid people. Thinkers. Scientists. Writers. Makers. Creators.
Yet people, specifically the media, consistently box us together.
I saw a headline a couple of weeks ago about a teacher who said she couldn’t teach millennials because they aren’t willing to learn.
This is both untrue and unfair.
Yes, some millennials are unfocused.
Yes, some millennials are lazy.
Yes, some millennials don’t want to learn.
But making a statement specifically stating all millennials are untraceable is an insult to those of us who have gone to school and more school because we dream of doing what we love.
You can’t box hardworking young adults with lazy, entitled ones.
Old generations put the blame on us while forgetting who raised us.
This isn’t meant to be hurtful, I’m tired of being grouped with labels I cannot relate to.
Every generation has a variety of different people. Stop putting the bales on millennials. We are ALL responsible for the constructs of the society we’re currently living in and it’s important to take responsibility for all of our actions in order to teach future generations to learn from all of us.
Every generation has people who aren’t great. Just because some millennials aren’t willing to be taught doesn’t mean it applies to people born in the early 80s to the late 90s.
Kelly Severseike 