This is all based off of my personal school experiences in English class growing up and what I've heard online. Idk what schools are like nowadays so I don't think I can say anything on it. Like I said, I'm not a professional. But thanks for reading anyways!! [21]

But this post is just what I think led people my age to have those opinions in the first place, and what people younger than me are probably starting to agree with. In my unprofessional opinion. [20]

Also the obvious point of 'if you didn't get learn it in the past, whats stopping you from learning it now?' which alot of people my age just don't do, causing them to be upset when people analyse their favourite media (thus using 'it's not that deep' as an argument when it is really that deep) [19]

That's just my two sense on this discussion. There's obviously other things that factor into this argument and also counter arguments for it (Unfair wages, workplace malpractices, as well as certain things that teenagers go through that can turn them away from school. i.e. trauma, Covid etc). [18]

So whenever a 50 something-year-old gets upset because people my age are saying "maybe the curtains were just blue" just keep in mind that it's because they never got a proper answer when they asked "why?" something was labelled as important. [17]

"Because I said so" and "It's just how it is" are not proper answers and are not things we want to hear from the people who are supposed to support us and teach us how to make our way in life. We don't want to be patronised. [16]

(Obviously AI sucks ass, but I sympathise with people my age and younger because damn we never got any real explanations as to why we learn in the first place) My point is, how are people supposed to learn if they don't understand why they're learning? [15]

But it's a bit more difficult to do that now, especially when AI will just feed you an answer that might not even be correct. (which is another conversation about why teachers don't explain why AI is bad and then get upset when teens use them because they don't find learning fun anymore) [14]

Heck, the only reason I started analysing media is because I think it's fun. And because none of my teachers told me why it was important, I had to figure out how to do it myself by googling it or watching YouTube videos. [13]

Don't complain about teens not paying attention or listening when you actively ignore their questions and diminish their curiosity. This doesn't apply to every teacher ever obviously, but even passionate teachers forget that teens probably don't understand why English lit is actually important. [12]

As the parent, or teacher, or guardian or whatever, you are responsible in helping a child develop and that includes teenagers and their curiosity. And I'm saying this as someone who just escaped teenagehood like 6 months ago. [11]

So when you answer some half assed bullshit like "because it's just how it is" or anything of a similar vein, it just turns them away from the subject entirely. Because they feel like you don't think they have the capability to understand when they really DO. [10]

Obviously not all teens are going to listen, some just don't wanna hear it, and usually, it's just because of something else happening in their life. But alot, if not most of them do want to listen. They don't ask you "why" just for funsies. They ask it because they're genuinely curious. [9]

Teenagers aren't careless, they are actually quite smart, but they are still teens. They still need to learn and develop, and the best way to learn in my opinion, is to understand. If they don't understand then why should they analyse media like their teachers desperately want them to? [8]

Say its because analysing media helps develop critical thinking skills, gives you new perspectives on the world, gives insight to what the author or artist or poet or director might've been thinking or feeling at the time. [7]