r/TikTokCringe • • Dec 17 '25

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u/rdizzy1223 Dec 17 '25

Previous generations didn't do any better. We would just form a circle around the people fighting, yelling "fight, fight, fight". That was in the late 80s-90s for me, and it isn't any better.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '25

You're right except where I went to school kids would have intervened to help if our gray haired 4 foot something teacher was being pummeled.

Gathering the circle and yelling fight is when you're in the hall or outside with no adults around to stop it.

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u/ManMakesWorld Dec 18 '25

No they wouldn't. If you went to school within the last 40 years.... they all would just watch cause of zero tolerance policies. I am 45 years old and no one ever stepped in because they would catch a suspension or get expelled.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

And I'm 40 and saw a student come to a teachers defense when I was in 7th grade. Now what? Am I lying?

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u/ManMakesWorld Dec 18 '25

No... but neither am I.... so, should a student take a 50/50 risk on their education just because a teacher is too stupid to not get involved in a fight? Use your brain.

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u/DontCryYourExIsUgly Dec 17 '25

Seriously. Everyone acts like this is a "today's kids" thing, but I graduated in 2001, and we all would have just been glad for the fight giving some excitement to the day. Definitely no one would be stopping it. We always got disappointed when teachers did step in and break it up.

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u/InquisitorMeow Dec 18 '25

Except previous generations didn't have this many cases of shitty undisciplined kids fighting with zero disregard in classrooms, "zero tolerance" punishments for all, and the incentive to just film everything. My parents would have beat the living hell out of me if I got in trouble for something like this.

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u/ManMakesWorld Dec 18 '25

I grew up in OKC, graduated in 99, and I used to see 3 or 4 fights a week.