[snarkpup]

This is nothing new. Back in the late '70s, the telecommunications company I worked for was having problems with new hires fresh out of college with master's degrees in electrical engineering who could pick ICs out of catalogs but didn't know basic circuit theory. In the early '80s, we interviewed about 15 recent grads with PhDs in computer science; and only two had any marketable skills.

[John Will]

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants,not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when eleders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
-Plato

“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words… When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of
elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and
impatient of restraint” (Hesiod, 8th century BC).