I agree! I watch JEOPARDY every day. The questions are getting easier every year, because we are all being dumbed down
“I agree! I watch JEOPARDY every day. The questions are getting easier every year, because we are all being dumbed down”
I’m 66, a baby boomer. A product of the best public schools of my era, California.
My grandfather and father had fought in world wars. All had survived the depression, as well.
So when my generation came along during the fun, peaceful, technology-consumer driven 1950s, we were taught about things that really matters.
I got my behind whacked if I talked back, or disobeyed important rules. Bad grades were not acceptable.
If a kid had little discipline at home, bad or broken home, he went on of two ways: Eventually you stayed away because your own folks said so, and the kid got lousy results, or the kid followed the rules your parents were teaching you.
Today too many kids get little good training at home, and the bad friends overrule the good ones. Schools harm at least as much as they help.
Kids get obese because their parents are too, from eating, not genetics.
In some ways America’s post WWII success, is also our curse. Too much, for too many, for too little.
I think your average kid in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan gets better educations than ours.