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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who claim that kids are better prepared / smarter than previous generations; this is incorrect.[b] I hire a new class of 22 year-olds each year and have for 30 years. Intelligence, work ethic, and executive function have been declining since about 2015.[/b] The article's author is right about the factors noted, but there is a mega trend that underlies everything: the professional jobs that we were all taught would lead to success and happiness are drying up, so more and more kids are being "trained" for a world that doesn't exist. Ironically, we are inculcating fragility in our kids in order to make them super PMCs (professional managerial class)--but they will find very actual jobs open to them.[/quote]

I agree with this and I will also add that most young adults and teens lack grit and perseverance.  I mean many of us now do too.  Computer, phones, AI, ChatGPT have taught kids there is instant gratification.  But parents have also made this worse.  They fight teachers for grades instead of holding their kid responsible.  Move their kids off sports teams so easily, sometimes mid season. They get paid help in work teens used to do at home (Jiffy lube, lawn services, car washes, power washers, and sometimes even housekeeping.  Kids and teens have a much easier life.  I mean look at DCUM.  There are parents looking for babysitters of TEENS who should be babysitting.  We coddle and baby them but hand them a phone with a screen to stare at for the average 8-10hours a day (per many poles)  If you step back and think about it, a lot of this is our fault.  I mean look at the parents fighting about taking phones out of school.  How stupid are we?  They should have never ever been inside schools.  But here we are.  [/quote]

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