I guess I disagree with this. For every story about lazy and incompetent youngsters there is a story of a hard worker that is smart and savy. Take my daughter who I've talked about on here who is putting herself through college while raising 3 kids and making the deans list. Or my oldest son who put himself through college by working 2 jobs during the school year and 3 in the summer, one of which was doing the morning milking shift at a 600 cow dairy. He got a total of $800.00 dollars from me over that time and paid that back during the summer he asked for it. One of the most memorable things for me from that time was one evening I called him to see how he was doing. I could tell he was out of breath and asked what he was doing. He was running to work, 5 miles each way, because he didn't have money for gas to drive. This was in winter, the temps around zero. After I got done chewing him out for running across a lake in that weather because it was a mile shorter I couldn't help be proud that he didn't sit there feeling sorry for himself and skipping work or ask me for money which I would have given him.
As far as the education is concerned I think it is driven by the modern work place. There are few jobs today that don't demand computer knowledge. Everything works off them even factory jobs. There are few jobs that don't use them left, including farming. Most new farm machinery is so computerized that old folks like me can't hardly run them anymore. There is almost no need for old math since everyone has a cel phone and computer at had most of the time.
As a few have said every generation has said the the following generation is lazy and incompetent, only to have that generation say it when their children are of age. I have raised 5 kids of my own and 2 step children and most have had their bad times, but now that they are in their mid 20's and early 30's they are all productive members of society and I think that holds true for most.
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