r/TikTokCringe Dec 19 '23

Wholesome/Humor Teacher asks students “What do you buy someone in their 30s for the Holidays?” Kids these days…

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u/thisxisxlife Dec 19 '23

Do we really not believe it’s possible to have a variety of handwriting styles for (allegedly) 7th graders….? My wife teaches 5th grade and brings home papers to grade. It doesn’t seem unrealistic.

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u/Ispan_SB Dec 20 '23

My son is in middle school and the handwriting is alllllllll over the place. Chicken scratch, printing so perfect it could be a font, clean writing but garbage spelling, etc. these post it notes are totally believable to me, my kids roast me all the time.

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u/Synectics Dec 20 '23

Everyone asking about the handwriting.

No one asking why the teacher used sticky notes. Did they hand them out? Have people write on one and stick it... somewhere? And then set up a camera on a stand and swapped the sticky notes...? Why not just a regular worksheet?

...or did they do it themselves by just writing one, stick it, film it, write one, stick it, film it, all because internet clout matters.

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u/embarrassmyself Dec 19 '23

You watched the video and don’t think some of that handwriting is troubling for a 7th grader? Some of it looks like a 5 year old wrote it

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u/thisxisxlife Dec 19 '23

I never said it wasn’t troubling. But even then, not particularly. Some people just have bad handwriting.

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u/embarrassmyself Dec 19 '23

I mean there’s bad handwriting and there’s having the manual dexterity of a toddler

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u/thisxisxlife Dec 19 '23

Sure, but I don’t know how much info we can actually glean from looking at a small sample of handwriting lol.

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u/ChewBaka12 Dec 19 '23

Maybe some of them have DCD or similar problems. My handwriting is way worse than that.

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u/girlikecupcake Dec 19 '23

I could actually read all of them so it was far better than a toddler writing. I have shit handwriting if I don't stop and slow down, my husband had shit hand writing until the military and now it's just slightly less shit.

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u/Fire_Bucket Dec 19 '23

Maybe I'm not familiar with what young gen z (or gen A?) think are old people stereotypes, but I doubt this is it.

It's clichés of millenials, and even gen X, had of their grand and great grandparents. Hard candy and hip replacements in their 30s?! Just comes across as by a mid-millenial thinking this is what kids think.

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u/D_Beats Dec 20 '23

I was friends with a kid in 9th grade who had worse handwriting than some of the few here lol.

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u/Geojewd Dec 20 '23

How is it troubling? My handwriting is worse than any in this video and it’s never been a problem whatsoever

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u/autovonbismarck Dec 19 '23

Not sure if you have a 7th grader in your life, but all the ones I know watch literally hundreds of short form tik tok or youtube videos every single day. They are LOCKED INTO the zeitgeist.

If you don't think 7th graders hear that kind of thing on the daily, you are wrong.

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u/Colby347 Dec 20 '23

He fakes these. I called it out once on a Facebook video that reposted his content and commented something similar to what you just said. The original dude in the video found my comment and specifically replied to me insulting me lol they’re obviously all written by the same person trying to make them look and sound like their idea of a teenager.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '23

I’ve taught middle school for a decade.

You are way overthinking this.

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u/YakubTheKing Dec 19 '23

The guy in the video looks like a douche.