Students: quiet quitting?

Reading through management literature on how pandemic job loss, organizational change, worker isolation and support system collapse has transformed the workplace, with many now approaching their jobs/employers from a place of rational calculation, saving their emotional investments for elsewhere.

Which has me wondering: perhaps this is some of the change I’m also now seeing in students. As in: they no longer trust the “system,” seeing as how it failed them during Covid. And so if they can “game” the system eg by using genAI and/or not attending class, they will.

These are just my personal musings - but as a historian I’m tending to think that the pandemic impacts are going to a lot bigger than maybe some would like to admit