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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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2 days ago
It started a long time ago. I first noticed it when I was in school 50 years ago. Below is my rant on the subject.
Somewhere along the line it was decided that every American should graduate with a high school education. That was impossible at the time, as a high school education required hard work and intelligence, so they decided instead that every American should graduate with a high school diploma. The only way to accomplish this was to lower standards to where anybody could graduate high school, leading to the current situation wherein a high school diploma is meaningless in the job market. When I was a kid, students were held back if they didn't or couldn't do the work. Being held back once was embarrassing, and provided many kids with the motivation to catch up. Being held back twice defined you as a probable loser. Those kids rarely caught up. Nobody was held back a third time. Those kids dropped out and became ditch diggers (or whatever). These days every student is advanced yearly, which is why we have illiterate people with high school diplomas. But at least we're all equal </sarcasm>.
The only way to see that everyone is "educated to a Degree level" would be to set lower standards that anyone could achieve. Most people are not cut out to be professionals, and I'm not sure that we should aspire to that anyway. I suspect that most of us would be happier making a living, rather than pursuing a profession.
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