The teachers went on incessantly, beating the kids up without mercy for about an hour, a demeaning spectacle for them to endure on such a day, and in such a place.
Obviously of the leftist political persuasion, the teachers deviated from their diatribe only to exhort the kids to public service, while demeaning private sector employment by equating it to "greed". My daughter is going to study business, and took offense to this, which made me proud. She believes that those who are successful in business cannot be so without "helping" others. Good point that.
For years, parents have been the ones that education chose to blame for the failures of our public education system, now it seems the blame is going to cell phones and social media, at least, that's what I understood from the interminable beat-down of this poor senior class, who had to endure it in silence.
I too, have bristled at kids burying themselves in their phones, but since the left seems to hate this so much, I'm reevaluating........
The teachers who berated those students were right about this. I have noticed that most of the younger workers in my company seem to work in a state of constant distraction with all the stupid electronic devices they use — and it really shows in the poor quality of their work.