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[quote=Anonymous]My husband is a professor at a top 10 school. He literally has never complained once about the quality of his students; in fact, he has said frequently that the type of work they're doing is something he would never have been able to do at that age. When a professor whines about how students these days can't do X,Y, or Z, it gets picked up in the media because they're eager to paint the picture of an entitled younger generation -- it's a tale old as time and this happened with millennials as well.

As a parent of a high-achieving kid, his ability to write is probably the place I see the greatest difference (in a negative direction) from when I was his age. His district also has zero geography education. I think writing is deemphasized in elementary school now, but that's just my own anecdata. On the other hand, he is doing algebra and he is in 5th grade. Times, standards, and requirements change and professors will always be comparing their students to what they themselves were able to do. [/quote]

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