[Aevery_Freeman]

I tutor kids preparing for standardized test (ACT, MCA, ASVAB, etc.) and am amazed and appalled at how little knowledge and/or critical thinking skills have been imparted to our kids by an unbelievably expensive "educational" system - a system that helps to bankrupt local and state governments.

The millennial generation is not necessarily dumber than previous generation, just more poorly educated.

[JCBreckenridge]

Finally. Thank you. I noticed the same myself. I have since moved up the food chain, and not teach. Just being able to read and understand the questions puts your students at an advantage.

[Iron Munro]

The millennial generation is not necessarily dumber than previous generation, just more poorly educated.

To this day I am still impressed at the quality and high level of education received in public high school by those I knew who graduated in the 1920's to 1940's - maybe even into the 1950's for some.

They graduated with a well rounded education and were much more prepared to enter life as adults than what I see as the accepted norm today.

There is a test floating around the net that is supposedly an 8th grade test from the 1800's. From my personal acquaintance with many who graduated in the first half of the 1900's I would say that test is probably reflective of the high level of their education.

Many I knew who are now either deceased or senior citizens could run circles around many young college grads of today in any serious academic subject. Compared to their present day counterparts, they had high level math, language and science skills, were well versed in history, government, the classics, etc.

But they were very weak on gender studies and the history of Islam and homosexualism.