Yeah. Couldn’t have had anything to do with the stupidity and uselessness of school curriculums and such.
They are easy to find. They are all leftists and RINOs.
So what happened to the millennials?…
Back in those days schools were actually teaching kids. I went to school in the 60s and early 70s. Before anyone was woke except in the morning after a good night’s sleep.
Also, I grew up a country boy. Nothing but sweet, clean air, if you didn’t mind the smell of manure when the pastures got sprayed.
I would argue that the internet made a lot of people less smart because it has evolved from something that was exclusive by a highly do it yourself nature at first and but by bit, people gave up the do it yourself approach to go and use Facebook, YouTube, etc, where a lot of the work is done for you. Not having to do as much of the work yourself makes you arguably less bright because you don’t have to put as much thought into it. Don’t get me wrong, there are those that have gotten rich off of using platforms on the internet but for most of them? Not so much.
The curriculum back then at least concentrated on reading, writing, history, snd math without social justice intertwined.
I will take “teacher’ union” for a thousand, Alex.
Yes, you’re right. It couldn’t be that./s
Junk science lowers the IQ of everyone
The Great Thanksgiving Cranberry Scare Of 1959
"Just days before Thanksgiving that year, Arthur Fleming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, set off the first nationwide food panic by announcing that domestic cranberry products were contaminated with a carcinogenic herbicide called aminotriazole."
"He failed to point out that one would have to eat 15,000 pounds of cranberries every day for several years to get cancer. The White House didn’t help. Mamie Eisenhower served applesauce with dinner that Thanksgiving. When the newspapers got hold of that, cranberries were toast...."
read more at link..
Then came the Strontium 90 in milk scare...followed by Rachel Carson's tear jerker about evil DDT...and so on, and so on....and here we are.
I actually don’t think so - the dumbing down admittedly began in the late 60s - remember the ORIGINAL new math. However - the school systems really didn’t start getting bad from my perspective until around 1980ish.
Further - by that point - lead was out of the gas supply for the majority of cars! What percentage of cars were using leaded gas in 1985?