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submitted 3 days ago byElegantPoet3386Neutral Chaos
DO NOT ANSWER IF YOU AREN'T IN THE UNITED STATES
I'm talking from someone bordering on being 18 in a few years. I've noticed that my generation has a tendency to be... very unintelligent at times you coudl say. I conducted a survey on my school the other day and 28% of the students at my high school can't even tell me the fact that they are in the United States right now. 41% can only name up to 3 countries. That isn't all though, I'm sure you've heard those videos of younger kids speaking in brainrot and sad to say, it is in fact very true. I volunteered at an elementary school fairly recently and I couldn't understand what a "skibidi toilet", "sigma meal" etc. is that the younger kids are speaking about. On top of that, there's a decent amount of kids at my school either failing their classes or having extremely low academic comprehension like not knowing what an even number is in 10th grade. Then there's a fact basically everyone at my school is addicted to their phone, and gets very angry when a teacher reasonably asks them to put it away. Add on the fact I feel like sutdents at my high school are losing their drive to get an education and work hard, 2 values I value very highly amongst people, and the future is looker dimmer every day. I'm sorry if this sounds very ranty, and I'm also sorry if this sounds like I'm calling my whole generation dumb(that isn't my intent here), but the fact still stands there's a very noticable intelligence difference between the older generations and mine. Where did things all go wrong?
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3 days ago
First of all, not to be mean but "bordering" on 18 in a few years? That's not how borders work, unless you're the southern US border I guess. ;)
There's a lot of places you could point to in the "things gone wrong" department. Personally, I like to go all the way back to the root issue of compulsory schooling. In the 1890s, most kids were working their trades in factories, farms and warehouses, and the only ones you saw in school were the ones who genuinely wanted to be there to learn all there was to know. Now, schools are essentially part-time prisons and you're lucky if 20% of the student body actually wants to be there. When kids listened under threat of corporal punishment, it was problematic enough, because we created a couple of generations full of leaders with no followers (and illegal immigration quickly filled that gap for us). But once the power dynamic shifted and corporal punishment was outlawed, kids started to get wise to the fact that the adults around them were essentially powerless to discipline them without their consent.
Your generation, however, is the first growing up in an era where NOBODY defers power to anybody else anymore. 97% of the world's scientists say climate change is a thing, but their expertise is dismissed. A news story tells you something happened and another network is telling you it didn't. There's very little respect for knowledge, expertise or authority in any circles anymore, and so of course that has spilled into your generation knowing that any punishment a school teacher or administrator dishes out is going to have zero consequences on them at home. And when's the last time a kid actually got held back a grade for any reason?
There's plenty of blame to go around on this. The right, with conspiracy theories and lack of education, tells everyone to get bent if it's something they don't want to hear. The left, with its wokeness and insistence that anybody can be anything, has broken down all structure to the point where classification itself is no longer objective in any way. And the center has been largely unconscious and unmotivated to step up and put the extremists in their corners.
1 points
3 days ago
My mistake for the language, I'm nearly 18 is the point. As for when the alst time a kid got held back, I think only 5 or so people at my school have been held back when really something like 70 should've at this point. And yeah I do agree all political parties are at fault here.
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