In today’s society, some people concern that students tend to show less respect for their instructors. While other people insist that they do not see this trend. As for me, I believe that teachers today don’t enjoy the same status as they used to do.

Firstly, we can easily see this disregard from students’ behaviors in and after school. It is quite ubiquitous that teenagers today carry their smartphones and PSPs to the campus, and even use these devices during the class. Besides, when they go back home from school, the first thing many of them would do is to boot up their computers or to watch television, rather than to do their homework. While when I was in senior high, which is almost ten years ago, I would listen to every words that teachers say during class. Sometimes even I was too tired to focus, I didn’t dare to sleep. As soon as I got home, I would do my assignment. And I wouldn’t have the mood to have dinner if didn’t complete.

The development of technologies may be one cause of young people’s alteration in the attitude towards teachers. Nowadays, we have diversified online resources, which enable us to study whenever and wherever we want. This advantage of online classes, as opposed to traditional classroom teaching, leads to less reliance on teachers. However, teachers receive high prestige due to their academic authorities.  So it is quite understandable why students toady show less regard to their tutors. While students in the past didn’t have such resources, the school might be the only medium for them to gain knowledge, which left them having to depend on their teachers.

In sum, this less respect for teachers is mainly connected to the availability of online resources. Parents, schools and the authority have to find some solutions to this problem if they want young people to perform well in their future workplace, where respecting their supervisors and colleagues remains necessary.