Response to a Classmate's Jounal, Week 9

This response comes from Brian's journal:

I share Zac's concern with students, and I could see how many students fall through the crack. In high school, I was unmotivated by school, but I knew that I had to work hard to get into college. I was a B+ student that turned in work, but always the bare minimum. Now, that trend has plagued me somewhat, because I run into "myself" in the students I teach. The problem is that many of them aren't even willing to do the bare minimum. I struggle with the same things of motivation, and "going to college" doesn't seem like much of a motivator. Which is surprising, since many of the students say they want to go to college? We have a new generation of students that expect everything to handed to them, and I don't blame them for some of the disturbing trends I see in education.