As we all know Covid has had an extreme impact on today’s society. Since covid highschool test results have been on a steady decline. This fact causes people to wonder if this decline in academic performance is directly related to the Covid 19 pandemic. What effects have quarantine and covid 19 had on this generation’s youth? How has this pandemic affected the youth’s mental health? As a member of Gen Z, I can confidently say that covid 19 negatively affected the mental health and work ethic of today’s youth. I notice its effects on students’ work ethic every day and I fear what the education system will look like in the years to come.
For this research paper, I will be using sources from various platforms to help provide further details to back up my claims. The sources I use will allow the reader to see where I am pulling the information I am writing on. I will start by assessing the decline in the work ethic using an article that has collected data from the youth by way of a survey. This source compares the test score from previous years to the test scores after the Covid 19 pandemic. Since I am looking at how covid has effect today’s youth I will be using TikTok to get information from other people my age. I am also looking at other essays that disagree with my thesis to get the opinion of people with opposing viewpoints.