I couldn't agree more. I am a single dad with 2 teenage boys, and very involved in my kids lives. I have 3 older children so I have a generational perspective as well.
Unequivocally, the children of today are increasingly more conservative, suspicious of most of the contemporary dogma, and dismissive of attitudes and conclusions being taught by adults. In short, many more children of today just don't trust their parents or their teachers.
My observations of the parents that I interact with, and these are the active, mostly stay-at-home-types, and the teachers that I observe up close and personal, is that the kids have a point!