Top 10 differences between high school in the 90s and today, young ah

Ah, young people, it's worse and worse, huh. I must take an example and there, it will be me and bah me, I was in high school y'a not so long ago, y'a what, 15 years ago I was in high school and there is 15 years and bah, huh, yes: by the mile: it was better. And then before you, you would hear the stories of my sisters: even better. So good, yes, times are changing.

1. Online transcripts

You remember the newsletters we received at the end of the quarter, filled in by hand, patiently, by our attentive teachers? These hand-thrown appreciations: "Can do better! "Satisfactory in spite of gossip ..." "too much balloon" ... Bah now all this is done online. The notes are written into a piece of software, and the students have access to it. Yes, it changes everything.

2. Digital projections in class

The picture is almost out of date today. Teachers project PowerPoint, students use tablets, it's too the 21st century, what.

3. The better, the less the teachers are respected by the parents

Most teachers who have been teaching for several decades do not complain so much about the decline in the level of pupils; On the other hand, they often point to the growing tendency of parents to support their children in the event of a dispute between the pupil and the teacher. There is more mistrust of the faculty and now that parents can directly write to teachers to complain or make appointments online, teachers are more subject to this aggressiveness.

4. Mobile phones

On the Reddit forum that we quote in source, a user summarizes the situation well:

• 1997 - "You will not always have a calculator with you, train yourself to mentally calculate! "
• 2017 - "Before the start of the test, all students must turn off the multifunction calculator that accompanies them wherever they 

5. Parents are notified of absences by SMS directly

If a pupil is not present, the teachers and the administration inform the parents directly by SMS. As a result, it becomes a little more difficult to intercept the letters sent by the high school to imitate the parental signature, except to steal the phone from pôpô or môman.

6. In 1990, smoking was allowed in the courtyard

It's not nothing ; In the 1990s there were smoking areas in the school grounds. It is only since 2007 that high school students have much more difficulty playing the rebels with a cigarette in the courtyard.

7. The programs

Programs have changed dramatically since the 1990s. The teaching of geography, for example, has been completely rethought to leave the field of physical geography and become more interested in the political and societal issues of geography; Similarly, history programs have evolved considerably towards the teaching of more diverse civilizations.

8. Until the 1990s,

And not the SVT. It was only in 1994 that the acronym came into force. And it was not until 2010 that parents stopped saying 'nat'. Same for the trays A, B and C, for that matter.

9. Educational methods

Today, teachers are trained to perform several activities in one session. The modes of teaching are increasingly vertical and increasingly horizontal, with pupils being associated to the maximum extent with the learning and the manufacture of the course. No more (good) teacher dictates

10. Work is increasingly focused on developing students' critical thinking

The irruption of the Internet has changed our relationship to knowledge. Learning of key dates has given way to a broader understanding of the stakes and trends of a phenomenon, with the knowledge of specific facts permanently available on Smartphone. The corollary to this novelty is that the pupils must develop a critical spirit sufficient to know from which source emanates what they read; Hence the exercise of exercises aimed at developing this critical spirit to the maximum.

The big difference is that I'm out of high school and I feel old.

Source: Reddit (among others)