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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just reading Freddie DeBoer on test scores and it turns out (I had no idea until I read this) that around 2008-2012 was the peak of test scores for developed nations [i]globally[/i] (in general, obviously there are specific outliers/trend-buckers) and developed countries have been going down since then.

So whatever's happening can't be all that political or even Covid, because it predates Covid and it crosses national borders.

But it could still be tech ;).[/quote]

Scores started declining around 2015, which is right around when tech was widely rolled out. It's tech.[/quote]

It is tech, but not school tech.  It is social media and attention spans.  It is parents that have given up fighting their kids about devices.[/quote]

Parents are at least 75% to blame. They start putting devices into their kids' hands even as toddlers, and they set no limits on tech as their kids grow because they have become hands-off about all parenting. They don't want to take any responsibility for their children's learning or success, and they teach their kids zero manners.

I have been disgusted by the lack of social skills I see in kids when I volunteer at my kids' schools or attend their concerts. Kids don't hold doors for people behind them, show zero awareness of the needs of those with disabilities, never cover their mouths when they sneeze or cough, throw trash all over the floors of classrooms and gymnasiums, talk back to adults, have little to no empathy for others, and are outright rude to custodial staff at the school. It is appalling.

Our society is in trouble. People walk around like zombies looking at their phones, conduct FaceTime or speaker phone conversations in very inappropriate places, are on phones even when at dinner with others, and seem to be unable to function without constant access to their phones. They are passing that dependency onto their kids, which means we are in a death spiral with regard to devices.
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