How high schoolers are feeling about the future, their mental health, and the issues that matter to them as the school year begins.
During the spring of 2022, Murmuration partnered with the Walton Family Foundation on a comprehensive study of Generation Z attitudes. The research, conducted by John Della Volpe and SocialSphere, confirmed that Gen Z feels stressed, unprepared for life after graduation and underwhelmed by the efforts of community and political leaders to understand and address the challenges they are working to overcome.
In late August 2022, we checked back in with high school-aged Zoomers to better understand how they were feeling and learn more about what we can do to help them prepare for positions of leadership and influence in our society.
This new report reveals the deep concerns among Gen Z that their voices are not being heard in decisions about their own lives.
It provides new insight into how they envision their futures and what they expect from public and private institutions.
As Gen Z high schoolers return to school after two years of disruption, students have mixed emotions. Students are almost equally positive as they are negative about the upcoming year, and they don’t feel that their political leaders or members of the administration understand what they need. 44% of Gen Z students report that their local school district’s board has “not much” or no (not at all) understanding of their needs, and Gen Z views their local superintendent, Democrats in Congress, Republicans in Congress, and local elected officials even more harshly.
